Neils, do you actually work at in a NOC operation with BGP operations and policies you can change - a backbone with customers? If not - I would understand why email is fast enough for you.
Maybe SIP iNOC phone isn't the right answer - but it seems to work fine everywhere I go. There just has to be a better way of communicating other than posting an email to a board - which isn't focused on a live network emergency. Something that's self filtered by all of us for a specific use. Say....An email/ text might work well or even better than SIP - if we had an APP that noticed a specific key or coded line plus your ASN to then ring my phone with an urgent ring tone.....hence, the idea of an NOC APP for that. Something other than "No I won't do anything different" - an idea or concept something you would embrace for such a moment. The iNOC phone wasn't embraced. Maybe a APP is a better idea than a phone. Thank You Bob Evans CTO > * j...@baylink.com (Jay Ashworth) [Tue 29 Sep 2015, 17:31 CEST]: >>The idea of a private tieline network that is connected, by SIP, to a >> line >>appearance in the NOC of each AS, and no one else is on it, seems like a >>fine idea to me. > > Until you take into account that SIP doesn't work through many > firewalls, that people generally don't give a second thought to > timezones, that network engineers generally dislike having to mess > with voice systems, etc. etc. > > 2 out of 3 INOC-DBA calls I ever received were silent on their end > (presumably) due to firewalls; the third call was a test. > > >>And that was INOC-DBA's original goal, as I understand it: >> >>You're having a problem? It's coming from some specific AS? >> >>Pick up the phone, mash the red INOC line button, dial the AS >>number, and you're talking to their NOC. >> >>And that's *authenticated*: since it's low enough churn to set up >>by hand, it's authenticated by humans. > > In other words, it wasn't secure, it wouldn't scale and churn killed it. > > >>Show of hands: who has it set up, correctly, right now? > > No. There is nothing I'd do after receiving a phone call that I > wouldn't do via email anyway. > > > -- Niels. >
