What is a NOC?

A NOC is old school for Network Operations Center. Typically an operations center to manage a computer network. In our case, this goes back to the mid 90's when we rolled in and ran tons of cable and brought in our own network. This included bringing in our own Internet connection. Back in early 90's this was not normal. We were pioneers here and were among the first in our industry to provide Internet access at a major conference center

One year we brought in a ATM622 network. Ran lots of video that year. Pretty fast too!

Now a days, convention and conference centers have a nice network installed and they create multiple networks for us. they are called VLAN's or "Virtual LAN". In our case, we worked with SmartCity Networks at OCCC and designed the following networks.

• Presentation Management Network. Content Delivery for Education Rooms.
  
• Internet VLAN-Pool. Internet for ACC Projects
  
• Internet VLAN-Pool-IT. Special Internet for IT/VPN.
  
• Internet VLAN-*DHCP*. Internet Guests
  
• Staff-Network. NEtwork for Staff Offices
  
• Registration Network - Network for Registration Partner
  
• Booth VLAN - Booth and various location in Hall
  

We bring a pair of Cisco firewalls and numerous switches in order to create an on-site network that allows our staff to easily get back to our HQ. We create a backend VPN and ready it so we can roll out services to individual offices in the center as our staff roll in. This way they are ready to roll and do not have to worry about anything IT.