Got Fiber Plant Diagrams?

Got Fiber Plant Diagrams?

By - July 20, 2021

During the intervening years since we first launched netTerrain Outside Plant (OSP) — it’s an add on module to netTerrain Logical or netTerrain DCIM — we’ve fielded many questions about the type of GIS-enabled maps that netTerrain supports as well as netTerrain’s ability to import existing maps/diagrams. What’s netTerrain OSP (Outside Plant Software)? First, what’s…

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Beavers vs. Your Outside Plant

Beavers vs. Your Outside Plant

By - July 16, 2021

When we first saw this news story back in April of this year, we said, “we have to write a blog about this.” What’s it about? Well, you probably “wood”n’t believe it, but: beavers caused some massive headaches in a Canadian town. Yes: beavers. If you’re new to working on the outside plant, that may…

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OSP Network: 3 Ways Software Improves Efficiency

OSP Network: 3 Ways Software Improves Efficiency

By - May 21, 2021

Your fiber plant and OSP networks can be incredibly complex. If there is a problem with a connection, how do you know what you’ll need to fix it, where exactly it is, and so on without an up-to-date map/diagram? How can you plan for, and manage, fiber capacity? Outside Plant Software (OSP) software can help…

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Graphical Networks: Bronze Sponsor for Upcoming BICSI Fall Conference 2021

Graphical Networks: Bronze Sponsor for Upcoming BICSI Fall Conference 2021

By - April 21, 2021

Graphical Networks, makers of netTerrain — IT visualization software used by many organizations today to help document and manage the fiber plant — will be virtually attending the upcoming BICSI Fall Conference in Las Vegas. Graphical Networks is proud to be a bronze sponsor of this conference. The exhibit hall opens on August 23-25th at…

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OSP Fiber Management: Save Time, Money, and Stress

OSP Fiber Management: Save Time, Money, and Stress

By - September 25, 2020

If you’re in charge of managing an Outside Plant (OSP) fiber network, you already know there’s nothing like the threat of backhoes and hurricanes to make you lose sleep. What will get damaged…and what else will be impacted? Are you going to have to send someone out in the field on a wild goose chase?…

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Fiber Mapping Software: What Is It?

Fiber Mapping Software: What Is It?

By - May 13, 2020

Here at Graphical Networks, we often say that our fiber mapping software solution (netTerrain OSP) helps fiber technicians and managers get their jobs done faster, easier, and more successfully. What, exactly, is it? Fiber Mapping Software: What Is It? Fiber mapping software, such as netTerrain OSP, gives those managing or working on fiber the visibility…

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OSP Software: 3 Steps to Find the Right Solution

OSP Software: 3 Steps to Find the Right Solution

By - December 4, 2018

Tasked with finding OSP software? If you need to find an outside plant (OSP) tool to help document and manage your fiber plant, you may be wondering how you can get the project started and find the right OSP solution for your team’s unique needs? First off, find out what your budget is (the cost…

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Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: OSP Circuit Layout Records

Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: OSP Circuit Layout Records

By - October 1, 2018

A circuit layout record (CLR) is an end-to-end view of a linear connection between two endpoints, on one page. We have seen these before, as when we launched a CLR for a cable or a port, netTerrain tries to follow the path as far out as possible until it encounters no more connections or too…

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Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: Terminating and Patching Up OSP Circuits

Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: Terminating and Patching Up OSP Circuits

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In the previous blog, we started digging a bit deeper into the details of OSP circuits in netTerrain. This blog is also very technical: we will analyze how netTerrain terminates and patches up the circuits paths that we designed previously. Once you have your paths — with the correct hops, cables and strands — you…

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Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: Designing Optimum Circuit Paths

Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation: Designing Optimum Circuit Paths

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When creating a new circuit in netTerrain, who decides which path it should take and how is that accomplished? There are basically three ways to define a path for a circuit — with decreasing levels of automation: (Most Automation) By having netTerrain choose the shortest path (Less Automation) By having netTerrain choose the shortest path…

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Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation

Circuits in Fiber Plant Documentation

By - September 30, 2018

In an OSP project, a circuit can be many things: a service between two points A and Z on a map, an MPLS connection going over fiber, or really — any logical relationship between points that uses physical resources of the network. One thing is quite consistent in fiber plant layouts, however: circuits traverse from…

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Working with Cables & Strands in Outside Plant Software

Working with Cables & Strands in Outside Plant Software

By - September 20, 2018

Up until now, links in netTerrain have been quite simplistic in terms of how they are modeled: just choose a look and feel for the link, assign some properties and, if needed, apply some rules (visual overrides) to some of those properties. This works well for virtually all network mapping and most Data Center Infrastructure…

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