It’s not just outages that keep network operators up at night. It’s the alerts at 2AM, the legacy tech duct-taped together, the vendor roulette, and the invisible pressure of keeping communities connected. In this episode, Georgette Lopez-Aguado, Rick Seemann, Paul Dasbach, and Larry Weidig unpack the mental load behind the NOC, and what it really takes to keep broadband infrastructure alive.