Network operations center

Overview of a typical NOC. Status monitors (front), backbone overview (back), and news broadcast on TV-set (right). Note the safe under the desk, typically for backups, passwords, or hardware cryptographic devices. - Picture of the Global Network Operations Center [GlobalNOC] at Indiana University

A network operations center (NOC, pronounced like the word knock), also known as a "network management center", is one or more locations from which network monitoring and control, or network management, is exercised over a computer, telecommunication[1] or satellite network.[2]

  1. ^ Jeff Cormier (24 February 2011). "Exclusive : Inside AT&T's top-secret Network Operations Center (NOC)". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Network Operations Center opens to handle satellite bandwidth". 25 July 2012. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2012.