Telkom NNOC (National Network Operation Center)

Today we went on the Grand tour of Telkom's NNOC in Centurion. It promised to be a real "Eye popper" and surely did not disappoint.
We walked into the most amazing and huge building, into a curved boardroom that was really huge. The presentation (on big screens) told how the operations center was rated number one in the world in the past, but had in recent times fallen to number three. USA and Belgium being one and two.
Nokothula who was doing a wonderful job of the presentation pressed a button and the silver blinds along the length of the boardroom rolled up revealing the fact that we were in a mezzanine level over looking the NNOC. It was stunning.!! Wow.
You can't help but marvel at the sheer magnitude, the gigantic proportions of the place.
All the data networks including the new VPN's are monitored from this point.
Thousands of PCs and a bank of the worlds largest high resolution big screens gave one an idea of what it would be like at NASA control centers.
Cable theft featured highly on the list of "Catastrophic events listed on the giant screens", one fault affected more than 3000 phone lines!..