>From nc0773@noc.netcom.net Wed May 24 16:51:24 2000
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:43:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Erik Muller <nc0773@noc.netcom.net>
To: Jason Newquist <nc0691@noc.netcom.net>
Cc: NOC Cabal <noc-cabal@nocturne.org>
Subject: Re: OPERATIONS INCIDENT REPORT: mem-tn


On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Jason Newquist wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Britta Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Subject: "The Great Memphis POP Heist"
> >
> >    Problem                : Thieves pilfering our POP in mem-tn 
> > 			    disconnected the UPS before proceeding to load
> > 			    our equipment into their van.  This caused the
> > 			    POP to go down for power reasons first, then
> > 			    for lack of hardware.
> >
> >    Prevention             : An alarm system might have prevented this 
> > 			    situation, but we would have much more of a
> > 			    problem with normal dispatches with an alarm
> > 			    system in place.
> 
> A video camera in every POP.  It should be mounted on a dual-axis bracket
> which is remotely administerable via conole.
> 
> The camera will send video data via MBONE tunnel back to NOC where it will
> displayed on a 21" monitor in a 260-monitor array (20 screens in each of
> 13 rows, one screen per POP) in the NOC War Room. 
> 
> With the voice-over-IP expansions putting additional bandwidth in place
> for a product that no customer will ever use, we will have more than
> enough space to achieve a constant 24 frames-per-second view of all our
> POPs, all the time.
> 
> Phase 2 of this project will include installation of a microphone and
> speakers, so that we can verbally communicate with people in our POPs
> without using conventional phone lines.  Additionally, we'll be covering
> the cameras at our various POPs with Halloween masks so ESSC technicians
> (or thieves) will see the head or a ghoul or some other creature of the
> night mounted up on the wall and rotating around to watch their every
> move.  With speakers mounted at strategic places around the POP and a
> voice-distortion algorithm, they will hear a voice from all around them
> that they just replaced the wrong quad-modem card, or that the Dark Lord
> still doesn't have console on pm6.
> 
> -j
> 
> // Jason R. Newquist <jnewquist@noc.netcom.net>
> // Network Services Support - Project Management
> 

You know, if the POP gnome project had been implemented back when it was
originally proposed, this would never be an issue.  Another example of lack
of foresight...