Re: Network Operations Luminaries?

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:

Hi Pete

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 were operations centers just not *Internet* operations centers. Bellcore and IBM spring to mind.