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NOC

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/nɒk/abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, NOC means: Short for network operations centre: the team and room, often staffed 24/7, that monitors a network, responds to alarms and coordinates the repair of faults and outages.

In Turkish: ağ operasyon merkezi, NOC

How it is used

Said like the word 'knock'. Operators, ISPs and large companies run a NOC; engineers call the NOC, escalate issues to it or get paged by it. NOC staff open tickets, contact field teams and post status updates. Its security counterpart is the SOC.

Example sentences

  1. The NOC noticed the fibre cut within two minutes and sent a field team.

  2. If the link is still down after 30 minutes, escalate to the NOC.

Common collocations

  • NOC engineer
  • 24/7 NOC
  • escalate to the NOC
  • NOC dashboard
  • call the NOC
  • network monitoringContinuously checking the health and performance of network devices and links, such as availability, traffic, errors and latency, and alerting engineers when something goes wrong.
  • outageA period when a service, system or part of it is not working or cannot be reached by users.
  • SNMPShort for Simple Network Management Protocol: a protocol that lets monitoring systems collect information such as traffic, errors and temperature from network devices, and lets devices send alerts.
  • SLAShort for service level agreement: a contract that promises customers a certain level of service, such as 99.9 percent uptime, and says what happens if it is not met.

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