Re: Network Operations Luminaries?

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Craig Partridge wrote:
> > Would "old timers" that ran older networks (such as ARPANET or BITNET)
> > count too ? from the answers it seems that no network operations existed
> > before "the Internet" - of course the networks were _much_ smaller but
> > IMHO 9.6Kbit/sec backbones must have had other challenges - right ?
>
> There was an ARPANET network operations center @ BBN.

Did any of the BBN managers publish a book on how to run a network
operation center?

I'm familar with Katie Hafner's "Where Wizards Stay Up Late."  But it
is more history than operations oriented.