GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are established under the auspices of GÉANT in order to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.
The GÉANT SIG – Network Operations Centres is the successor of the former TERENA Task Force on NOCs (aka. TF-NOC).
The first year of SIG-NOC will start on 1 May 2015 and last until 30 April 2016. The proposed achievements and KPIs for the first year are summarized in the table below.
Planned achievements | KPIs | Report |
Discuss, design and develop recommendations for a NOC Personnel’s Training (basic) and potential Certification Programme in order to bring/keep NOC staff up to the “standard” level. | List of recommendations | due to April 2016 |
Invite NOC tool developers and organize half-day technical tutorial sessions on various products/topics. | 1 or 2 tutorials | due to April 2016 |
Extend the reach of the community to regional, metropolitan and campus NOCs. | 2-3 new NOCs to join in this category | due to April 2016 |