Unlock Capacity: Discover netTerrain DCIM at Data Center World 2024!
By Hannah Ash - September 26, 2023The Graphical Networks team is excited to announce that, once again, we’ll be returning as exhibitors at AFCOM’s Data Center World 2024 Conference. This year, the conference is set to take place from April 15 to 18, 2024, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.—not far from our headquarters here in Maryland….
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netTerrain Quarterly Newsletter Q2,2023
By Hannah Ash - April 27, 2023At Graphical Networks, we’re continuing our commitment to stay in touch with you, our awesome customers, on a regular basis and keep you up to date on all things netTerrain. Our second quarterly newsletter has hit the virtual presses: our sophomore issue includes a comprehensive product roadmap, engineering updates (including the scoop on our recent…
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Discover How netTerrain Can Cut Your Cloud Costs at Our Free DC Lunch & Learn, April 27th
By Hannah Ash - February 15, 2023If you’re based in the DC Metro Area (DMV), we’ve got some exciting news: the team here at Graphical Networks is hosting a free in-person Lunch & Learn event on April 27th at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Chevy Chase, and we’d love for you to attend. At the event, we’ll be discussing how our software,…
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Graphical Networks Exhibits at Data Center World in May, ‘23
By Hannah Ash - February 13, 2023After a hiatus from exhibiting at AFCOM’s Data Center World, our team is excited to announce the return to the upcoming conference in Austin, Texas from May 8-11. Our team will exhibit our flagship software suite netTerrain at the conference, netTerrain DCIM. Used by leading industry giants and small businesses alike, netTerrain is a flexible,…
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Graphical Networks Returns to BICSI for 4th Consecutive Year
By Hannah Ash - May 23, 2022Graphical Networks is proud to support the mission of BICSI by exhibiting at its Fall 2022 Conference and Exhibition. BICSI is an association that advances information and communications for technology professionals with a robust communities of more than 26,000 members and credential holders from more than 100 countries. Graphical Networks will exhibit its flagship software…
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Graphical Networks Exhibits at BICSI Winter 2022
By Hannah Ash - January 24, 2022Graphical Networks, makers of netTerrain — IT visualization software used by hundreds of fiber professionals to help document and manage the fiber plant — will be attending the upcoming BICSI Winter Conference and Exposition 2022 in sunny Orlando, Florida . The exhibit hall opens on January 31st – February 2nd at the Orlando World Center…
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What Your Favorite Network Engineer Wants for Valentine’s Day
By Hannah Ash - February 14, 2019Valentine’s Day is upon us — and, if you know anything about Cupid, he is great at finding things — like true love. Here at Graphical Networks, we’ve noticed that many of the network engineers who use our software netTerrain had to become, like Cupid, pretty great at finding needles in a haystack before they…
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How to Create a Network Diagram
By Hannah Ash - September 11, 2018Network diagrams are a visual tool that give network administrators a window into the network: they are used to visualize objects/nodes, connections, dependencies, critical paths, tasks, and more. Because networks are complex, there are different types of network diagrams to deliver various types of information. Step 1: Understand the Types of Network Diagrams basic network…
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What is a Logical Network Diagram?
By Hannah Ash - September 5, 2018Network diagrams, both logical and physical, are key to effective network and IT infrastructure management. With up-to-date diagrams, network admins can troubleshoot (and minimize downtime), plan for capacity, avoid IT clutter, maintain software, and keep the network secure and compliant. There are two main types of network diagrams: physical and logical. Physical network diagrams (as…
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Physical Network Diagrams Explained
By Hannah Ash - August 30, 2018When it comes to maintaining and managing an IT infrastructure, network diagrams are critical to compliance, security, troubleshooting, and minimizing downtime. Network diagrams, or maps, are visuals that use symbols/icons/shapes to depict the different objects and connections in a network. Depending upon what you need to document, you may will probably have different types of…
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What is the OSI Model?
By Hannah Ash - August 21, 2018Before you dive into what you may want to document and include in a network diagram, you’ll probably want to have a basic understand of what, exactly, the OSI model is. The Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI) is, in a nutshell, a theoretical or reference model which defines how the different applications in a network…
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DCIM Software: How to Avoid a Failed Implementation
By Hannah Ash - August 20, 2018If someone were to ask me today, “Hey, you know about this stuff: is DCIM failing users?”, I would set them straight: “No, it’s not the software. It’s the hype that’s failing the software.” AS DCIM continues to gain steam, the more people use it and the more people talk about it. A joint survey…
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