Network operations center

But it's a remarkable piece of technology and transformative all around.

When I worked at British Telecom and the Network Operations Center, we were rolling out their global data network, the Frame Relay Network.

And it was a really fun time.

I think I loved working at it at the time.

There is no other choice because you're not going to be able to go hire the human capital to be able to go and address this explosion of need across the network operations team.

So do you think that the NOC, Network Operations Center, model is sort of officially dead in some senses or no?

I think they're not dead, but they're definitely going to evolve, right? You need to be able to respond at machine speed.

You need to be able to resolve issues in the matter of seconds or minutes.

Because as we highlighted in what I've kind of proved and proven out in my background at ThousandEyes is that many times a signal might show up in the application, but the trace of the root cause might be a security policy change back within the access control list for a particular application.

And you just can't afford not only the digital disruption of hours of downtime, but also you can't afford the people cost of spending hours or days trying to hunt to the root cause of a problem, because then that just leads you into the opportunity cost of taking those teams away from doing other critical work that's necessary.

And so the Network Operations Center should evolve.

It needs to evolve by leveraging agents ambiently that are going to be continuously sensing the environment, surfacing up the actions, and then using the humans as a key form of judgment in terms of what are the actions that you're ready for agents to take fully autonomously, to close it before they even tell you that there's a problem, and what are the use cases where you want to be able to elevate to human involvement and additional human judgment.

Hey, Roadway, welcome to the party.

I have knowledge of basic IT, and I've worked in the NOC or a network operations center of an ISP or internet service provider, and I want to start learning cloud computing.

How can I do that? What should be my key focus, things I want to be a, a sec DevOps engineer? Well, first things first is if how much cloud experience do you already have? I would highly recommend doing a couple of things.

First off is get a developer account, whether that's Azure, Entra, find yourself a, you know, Google Cloud Workspace, whatever you need to get yourself a developer account.

Coming up on This Week in Radio Tech, we're talking about the idea of a network operations center for everybody.

You don't have to be a huge broadcaster to have your own network operations center.

You can get informed about everything at your transmitter sites, and maybe at your studios too.

That's what we're talking about with Josh Bohn and Mike Hutchins.

So, hey, we're gonna get, we're gonna jump into that and look at some solutions and see, uh, it's interesting what some broadcasters are doing on a customized basis, but also, what, um, Mike and his colleagues over at MaxConnect are doing with a customizable, um, uh, solution.

So we'll, we'll get into that.

Uh, I, I, well, I say e- every, every station, every broadcaster should have a network operations center.

And, uh, the cool thing is, uh, it'll fit in the size of, of your computer [laughs] 'cause it's, it's, it's amazing what we can do, and so helpful.

The next few scenes on this third tier have changed for almost every version of the attraction, with most referring to technological advances and computers.

Guests could then see the Network Operations Center, where network lines and satellites were monitored.

The center housed a map of Florida, the United States, and even a view of the entire globe from the North Pole.

A man sat in front of these maps, watching them, whilst a woman was seated to his right.

During the initial ascent, the smoke effect was removed and replaced with a new star field effect.

The Hebrew people's contributions to communication were now recognized.

Two new scenes were added to the attraction in between the family living room scene and the network operations center scene.

The first of these depicted the creation of the personal computer with a young man sitting at his desk.