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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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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Why Financial Institutions Can’t Afford Outdated Network and Data Center Management
By Fred Koh - December 18, 2025In financial services IT, small documentation gaps can slow incident response and increase operational risk. If you work in financial IT, you already know (all too well) how small gaps turn into big problems…fast: A missed dependency An undocumented port An outdated rack diagram Any one of these can mean longer outages, slower audits, and…
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How to Document Fiber Networks: Practical Guide for Cities, Campuses, & Utilities
By Fred Koh - December 11, 2025Fiber networks are critical to the foundation of communities today — in city backbones, across smart campuses, in utility grids, and powering public safety services. They’re growing fast…can your documentation keep up? If you’re like so many of the teams I speak with, you’re stuck dealing with “documentation” scattered in outdated spreadsheets, CAD files on…
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The Changing DCIM and OSP Landscape: Why a Niche Vendor Like netTerrain Makes Sense
By Fred Koh - December 1, 2025DCIM and OSP tools have changed in more recent years. Many of the well-known platforms reached end-of-life, merged into larger hardware ecosystems, or slowed down their development. More and more teams have started looking at DCIM alternatives, vendor-neutral options, and OSPInsight replacements because they need software that will stay consistent over time. When, to use…
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Transform Your Fiber Management: See netTerrain at Fiber Connect 2026
By Fred Koh - November 11, 2025Here at Graphical Networks, we talk to field engineers, planners and OSP managers every day — and one thing we hear loud and clear: your maps are outdated, you don’t know strand capacity until you’re in a manhole, and you’re juggling spreadsheets that should’ve been retired years ago. That’s why we’re thrilled to be at…
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DCIM & OSP Software That Actually Adapts: Why netTerrain Works
By Fred Koh - October 16, 2025You probably chose your DCIM software or OSP software expecting it to last — reliable, adaptable, something you could count on. But the landscape’s shifted. Big vendors are merging platforms, folding smaller tools into larger ecosystems, or moving away from software-only solutions. If your system comes from one of those vendors, it’s fair to ask:…
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Need to Replace OSPInsight? Meet This Fiber Mapping Software.
By Fred Koh - July 22, 2024Back in 2020, your existing KML diagrams and spreadsheets easily, and streamline your fiber management. Bottomline: if you need to replace OSPInsight and aren’t sure that Network Manager Telecom is the right solution for you, check out netTerrain OSP. Start a free 14-day trial (no credit card required) and see what netTerrain can do for…
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Integrating PRTG with netTerrain for Automated Network Diagram Mapping
By Jan Durnhofer - February 12, 2024Most network monitoring tools don’t really show you what’s going on in a visual way – it’s like reading a technical manual without any pictures (check out a blog that goes more into this called “what network documentation is not”). Usually, companies will use one set of tools to keep an eye on their network…
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