FAA Fiber Cut Disrupted Thousands of Flights.
By Fred Koh - September 24, 2026FAA Fiber Cut Disrupted Thousands of Flights. Where the Failure Chain Could Have Been Interrupted A severed backup fiber line and a failed primary communications circuit disrupted air travel across the Northeast US for hours. The sequence shows why physical route visibility matters—and BWI Airport offers a separate, real-world example of what that visibility looks…
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Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area: Private Campus ISP & OSP Lunch & Learn
By Fred Koh - August 31, 2026Join us close to our headquarters in Maryland for a private small-group luncheon for higher-education IT, network, and infrastructure professionals. Managing campus inside plant and outside plant infrastructure gets more complicated as networks grow, buildings change, and new infrastructure is added. That’s why Graphical Networks is hosting a private Lunch & Learn focused on campus…
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Data Center Best Practices Guide
By Fred Koh - July 23, 2026Practical guidance for managing power, cooling, racks, cabling, capacity, and infrastructure documentation Data centers rarely become difficult to manage because of one major mistake. Usually, complexity builds gradually. More equipment gets added. Rack densities increase. Power and cooling requirements change. Cable pathways fill up. Temporary fixes become permanent. Documentation falls behind, and important information ends…
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netTerrain 10.2: More Control, Smarter Modeling, Easier Updates
By Jan Durnhofer - July 22, 2026netTerrain 10.2 is live. 10.2 introduces depth-aware rack and cabinet modeling, Butterfly Layout automation for manhole diagrams, easier circuit editing, direct strand-to-strand fusing, and improvements to IPAM, imports, link editing, device identification, table navigation, security, and PDF export. These updates help you document physical infrastructure, connectivity, fiber, and IP resources more accurately as your environment…
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Graphical Networks to Exhibit at DCF Trends 2026
By Fred Koh - July 21, 2026Graphical Networks will exhibit at DCF Trends 2026, taking place August 4–6, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. Stop by Booth #14 to see how netTerrain DCIM software helps data center teams document infrastructure, manage capacity, track assets and connectivity, and maintain a dependable system of record. As data centers grow in size,…
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The Hidden Cost of Undocumented Network Knowledge
By Fred Koh - June 12, 2026Most network teams don’t say: “We have an undocumented network knowledge problem.” They say: “Ask the person who installed it.” “It should be in the old Visio diagram.” “There’s a spreadsheet somewhere.” “Someone on the fiber team knows.” This “system” may work for a while—until that person is unavailable, retires, or leaves the organization. Then…
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How One Texas City Turned Fiber Guesswork into Street-to-Strand Clarity
By Fred Koh - May 8, 2026It’s Tuesday afternoon and an email from the city manager lands in your inbox: “We’re finalizing the new fire station’s backbone connection. Can you send over the strand map and available fiber paths by Thursday?” You open the shared drive. There’s a Visio from 2018, a spreadsheet that hasn’t been touched since the last contractor…
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2026 netTerrain User Summit
By Fred Koh - May 15, 2025On behalf of everyone here at Graphical Networks, I’m excited to announce that the 2026 netTerrain User Summit runs October 11–14, 2026 at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada. Whether you’re new to netTerrain, one of our partners, or you’ve been using it for years, you’ll find…
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