Network operations center (NOC)

Network operations center is a centralized management, monitoring and control over IP based networks, broadcasts and telecommunication networks.

NOC continuously examines/monitors the networks and raise automated alarm to specific users and modules as mentioned in configuration. IP based networks are monitored by using SNMP protocol (http://www.net-snmp.org/),but it also supports CORBA and other protocols.

For power and environmental devices, a middle layer device is required to let NOC communicate with these devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_operations_center