Need to Document Your Fiber Network? What to Expect
By Jason Sherman - July 29, 2022Do you need to document your fiber network? Here’s some bad news: don’t expect it to be easy. You’re probably thinking: “Wow, that’s a positive note to kick this blog off on, right? Please continue. I’m really excited now…!” Allow me one more minute to make my case: Fiber Documentation: The Good News Ok, ok…maybe…
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3 Network and Data Center Diagramming Success Stories
By Fred Koh - May 18, 2022Considering a software program to document your network, your data centers inventory, and your cabling? Have you outgrown tools like Visio and spreadsheets and you’re ready to find a centralized, visual repository to view, search, report, and find information quickly? If you are, you may be curious as to how other organizations are using netTerrain…
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Outdated Network Documentation Solution? How to Replace It
By Fred Koh - May 2, 2022You know what they say about the best laid plans…they don’t always go according to plan! “I’d like to get home by 5PM and catch up on my tv shows, play more with my kids…or maybe I’m so backlogged with my work tickets and need to make progress”…and then boom: a network outage happens just…
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What is Automated Network Mapping?
By Fred Koh - April 20, 2022Automated network mapping is often discussed in forums like Spiceworks and Reddit. Folks ask questions like, “should I get it…?” or “which mapping tool do you recommend?”. If you’re reading this, you may be wondering, before you dive in further as to whether you need it or not: what is automated network mapping, anyways? What…
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How Do I Switch from Visio Diagrams to Automated Network Documentation?
By Fred Koh - March 28, 2022If your network is documented in Visio network diagrams, or spreadsheets – or a combination of both – you, or a colleague, have probably invested a great deal of time into that documentation…or, you haven’t and it’s more of an afterthought than documentation that’s truly usable and gives you insights you can act on. Regardless…
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The #1 Problem with Visio Network Diagrams
By Fred Koh - March 1, 2022Many organizations today are still using a combination of Visio and spreadsheets for their network documentation. I get it: these are good applications to use, they’re included with Office 365, and they’re easy-to-use and store. I have seen some really detailed spreadsheets and Visio network diagrams and they are most impressive! The big question that…
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ROI Series: Calculate Your ROI from Network Mapping Software
By Jan Durnhofer - December 30, 2021In this blog series, we’re diving into return-on-investment analyses for network mapping and data center infrastructure software. If network documentation and network mapping software can solve your pain points, then this blog and the previous one are for you. If you’re looking for savings in the Data Center, rack documentation, cabling, power and cooling and…
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Shadow IT? Mitigate Your Risks with Network Documentation
By Jan Durnhofer - December 17, 2021The threat of Shadow IT… it sounds like something out of a Stephen King book or B-horror movie. I can see it now: “scary IT resources that are lurking and waiting — in the shadows — to attack at any minute or hour…coming to a network near you!” In this blog, we’ll look at what…
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Dynamic Network Diagrams: Avoid the Headaches, Enjoy the Results
By Fred Koh - December 6, 2021Over the course of the decades in which our team has been in the market of providing network engineers and admins with quality network documentation and dynamic network diagram software, we’ve listened to our customers a lot, we’ve talked to other vendors, we’ve met other folks at trade shows using various types of tools for…
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Logical Network Diagrams: 4 Use Cases
By Fred Koh - November 22, 2021Logical network diagrams come in all different shapes and sizes: the most basic logical diagrams may be as simple as post-it notes on your desk, they could be Visio diagrams, or they could be up-to-date and pixel-perfect diagrams that depict your network in real-time (like the ones netTerrain automatically makes of your network). What’s the…
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Network Work Orders: How They Help You
By Fred Koh - October 28, 2021Do you work on the network? If you do, you already know that network change is constant…and proper change management prevents headaches down the road! Change management policies that require changes are documented along with the software you need to document them can help keep network chaos at bay and network work orders are a…
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Tales from the Net: Network Documentation Woes
By Fred Koh - October 4, 2021Need software for network documentation? Ideally, if you need to document the network this is what happens: you go out and buy network documentation software, install, implement, and bam: you click, view network, fix, and go home early. That’s the goal, right? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Recently, a member of my team dived…
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