The Bresnan Brain: Bresnan’s new operations center in Billings features sophisticated control room

Jim Boelter sometimes describes the sophisticated computer network at the center of the new Bresnan Communications http://www.bresnan.com/ facility in Billings as a living, breathing entity.

When you step into the building’s Network Operations Center (NOC), located on the second floor of the company’s new building at 1860 Monad Road, the network-as-organism metaphor doesn’t seem that far-fetched.

Giant computer readouts flash across one wall as systems analysts huddle around two rows of consoles. The scene brings to mind a control room for a NASA space flight, or a scene deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.

Real-time information The big screens provide real-time information on how the network is operating in the 200 communities where Bresnan provides cable television and high-speed Internet service.

By Tom Howard of Montana Lee Newspapers

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