Network operations center
A network operations center, also known as a "network management center", is one or more locations from which network monitoring and control, or network management, is exercised over a computer, telecommunication or satellite network.
Overview of a typical NOC. Status monitors (front), backbone overview (back), and news broadcast on TV-set (right). Note the safe under the desk, typically for backups, passwords, or hardware cryptographic devices. - Picture of the Global Network Operations Center [GlobalNOC] at Indiana University
Technicians in Architel NOC
A control room or operations room is a central space where a large physical facility or physically dispersed service can be monitored and controlled. It is often part of a larger command center.
The Lucens reactor's control room
NASA's "Shuttle" (White) Flight Control Room in Houston, Texas
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant control room in 1990.
NASA control for the International Space Station (ISS)