Do I really need Outside Plant (OSP) software?
By Jan Durnhofer - November 8, 2019Our OSP software module, netTerrain OSP, seems to pop-up in discussions with our current netTerrain users quite a bit lately, maybe because it is still relatively new (it is only 4 or 5 years old versus netTerrain’s network and DCIM features, which have been around for over a decade now). Because we’ve been fielding quite…
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Complaint of the Week: Moving catalog objects between netTerrain systems
By Jan Durnhofer - October 22, 2019Welcome back to our complaint of the week series (we had a bit of a hiatus…I guess no complaints, eh?). We received a new complaint that was interesting: “can I move a catalog object between two netTerrain systems?” By ‘catalog object’, we don’t mean the actual inventory or instances of assets you have in your…
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Myth Buster: Is netTerrain Just an Outside Plant Tool?
By Fred Koh - July 31, 2019I’ve seen a few posts around the web that say, in essence, ‘you shouldn’t buy netTerrain DCIM, as it’s just outside plant (OSP) software.’ When I see posts like that, I have to just scratch my head and think: who on earth came up with this one? Yes, we make amazing outside plant software but…
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netTerrain mobile app developed using the REST API
By Jan Durnhofer - July 16, 2019In a previous blog, we discussed how a couple of customers had developed their own mobile apps for netTerrain DCIM. One of these customers, Acciona Energía (a global renewable energy provider from Pamplona, Spain) presented their results at our annual users summit (the summit took place between May 13th and 15th at the Bolger Center…
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Wanna excel academically? Use netTerrain DCIM!
By Jan Durnhofer - July 15, 2019At our recent users summit, one of our customers and a partner announced they had developed their own flavor of a mobile app for netTerrain DCIM. We will dig deeper into these implementations but, to briefly summarize: using our REST API , these customers developed a mobile app in which a user can scan devices…
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Is this the best DCIM implementation ever?
By Jan Durnhofer - July 11, 2019During our users summit this past May, we uncovered some truly fantastic projects from our customers. Over the course of the 3-day event, we saw great examples of automation using our API, we discussed some cool fiber plant deployments, touched upon CFD (computational fluid dynamics) integrations with netTerrain, but one project was, truly, the absolute…
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“netTerrain DCIM Won Fair and Square.”
By Jan Durnhofer - July 10, 2019I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Javier Iriarte, Communications Manager at Acciona Energy, for a quick interview right after our users summit. Acciona Energía, a global supplier of clean energy based out of Pamplona, Spain, started using netTerrain DCIM recently and we have to say that the results are nothing short of…
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How is netTerrain Priced? (DCIM, Logical, OSP)
By Fred Koh - June 25, 2019“How can I get pricing for netTerrain?” netTerrain pricing is not listed on our website. I get this and understand how frustrating this can be. In today’s world, people want information instantly. I know I do! The reason why we don’t publish and instead ask for a 15-minute conversation beforehand is to determine if netTerrain…
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Make Your CA Spectrum Diagrams Sing
By Jan Durnhofer - June 17, 2019I remember way back in my Concord (and later when I worked for CA) days: I took a liking to the recently acquired Spectrum network discovery software (this was probably around 2004 or 2005). Spectrum was one of the first tools that I remember was capable of bringing in link data from an SNMP discovery…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: I want my API call!
By Jan Durnhofer - June 10, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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netTerrain Users Summit 2019 (Recap)
By Fred Koh - May 30, 2019We’ve been busy here at Graphical Networks: in addition to our ongoing projects, we recently hosted our first annual netTerrain Users Summit, held on the campus of the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. The Users Summit, which attracted netTerrain infrastructure administrators, managers, network engineers, and partners from four continents (North and South America,…
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Network Mapping of ServiceNow Data
By Jan Durnhofer - May 10, 2019I must admit that I am amazed by the amount of ServiceNow implementation in the corporate world today. With the proliferation of ServiceNow we get quite a few requests from customers to integrate some of the data they have in ServiceNow with their netTerrain projects. As I am no ServiceNow expert, I can’t tell you…
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