emeapress.att.com — This is picture of AT&T Headquarters Network Monitoring room. It features 144 screens monitoring all of AT&T's voice and data lines worldwide. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a movie set or fake but it's real. Pretty amazing, I wonder what the overall screen resolution of their screens is? 1,000,000,000x100,000?!?!?
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egrumlingJan 12, 2007
And it is all there just to check the stock price (it was built in 1999).
kernelhappyJan 12, 2007
For everyone complaining about how this NOC doesn't have a lot of functional value, you're wrong. It serves a major function, keeping salesmen and customers out of the areas they can do damage. Right before I started working for a large electronic financial transaction processor a company a salesman was doing a mid-day tour of the data center. He pointed out the redundant systems, then the safety systems. He then pointed out the emergency stop button, which he then decided to demonstrate it by pressing it, thus shutting down all the power in the facility. The funny part is that the customers would yawn while walking past tens of millions of dollars worth of Tandems, but bring them in a comm room filled with terminated lines and the blinking lights would dazzle them. Sales people and customers are idiots and need to be kept as far away from sensitive areas.
mtcool1988Jan 12, 2007
Vary Nice.............. Ah How much?
foxhoundadminJan 12, 2007
"Where does the guy from the NSA sit?"he doesn't sit. he's from the freakin' nsa, man! he stands up top... next to... THE G-MAN... behind the tinted glass (on the upper-left-hand side of the picture)!!!
deralteJan 12, 2007
It's from here they locate people canceling their accounts
tehboredJan 12, 2007
Does anybody else think that's a little scary. I mean it's cool and all, but it really makes me think of some fictional, super-evil corporation whose name I can't remember right now.
dagoohJan 13, 2007
The NORAD scenes in Wargames were filmed in the EDS command center in Plano Texas.
blasphemous88Sep 10, 2007
Network monitoring room huh? That explains things. No one working in the network monitoring room. Perhaps this was taken on their internal take your NSA rep to lunch day.
3drockssOct 4, 2008
i went there for a school trip that on that picture is nothing compare to the other rooms in the bulding, thats actually their basemant, you guys cant imagine the tech they got on the upper room, that looks all pretty becasue thats were their customers that are big boys the kind of hotel hilton owners or apple and stuff like that hugeeeeeee companie go and get facinated by all this mix of luxury and technology, its just amazing.