Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

[Lady Benjamin PD Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

We are still operating ours - 27 1080P projectors - but with a skeleton crew of just 3.  Given the air volume, it’s 
almost like outside.   Everyone else is WFH.   
—L.B.

Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE
6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
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> On Dec 16, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
>
> With the covid19 situation, obviously lots of ISPs have their NOC personnel working from home, with VPN (or remote 
> desktop) access to all the internal tools, VoIP at home, etc.
>
> In the traditional sense, by "showpiece NOC" I mean a room designed for the purpose of having large situational 
> awareness displays on a wall, network weathermaps and charts, alerting systems, composed of four or more big flat 
> panel displays. Ideally configured to be actually useful for NOC purposes and also something impressive looking for 
> customer tours.
>
> To what extent potential customers find that sort of thing to be a signifier of seriousness on the part of an ISP, I 
> suppose depends on what sort of customers they are, and their relative degree of technical sophistication.
>
> Are the days of such an environment gone forever?