
"Excerpt from the book..."Operating the InternetEach network, be it the ARPAnet, NSFnet or a regional network,has its own operations center. The ARPAnet is run byBBN, Inc. under contract from DARPA. Their facility iscalled the Network Operations Center or NOC. CornellUniversity temporarily operates NSFnet (called the NetworkInformation Service Center, NISC). It goes on to the