An essential NOC dashboard components include:
1) National Threat Level - Oh yeah, Elevated. I feel safer knowing, I don't know about you.
2) Local Weather 5-day forecast
3) Radar weather map cycling between US, Europe, and Japan
4, 5, 6) The up to minute statistics of network consumption.
7) SANS Internet Storm Center - What's the latest from the net
8) World Radio Tuner - because when its going down, radio still provides information.
9) Calendar - looking for the govn't 3-month display calendar with pencil in functionality
10) Surf Cam - Our best looking view of the world from within the data center dungeon.
11) World clocks from timezones - we chose ones where we have data center locations.
