Cities Have a Fiber Problem. It Starts Before Anything Breaks.
By Fred Koh - October 6, 2026Cities Have a Fiber Problem. It Starts Before Anything Breaks. A city can own miles of fiber and still struggle to answer a basic question: What do we have, where is it, and what’s available? It isn’t only a mapping problem. It’s an infrastructure-management problem. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has identified a…
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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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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 If you’re like so many of the teams I speak with, you’re stuck dealing with “documentation” scattered in outdated spreadsheets, CAD files on…
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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we talk to field engineers, planners and OSP managers every day — and one thing we hear loud and clear: your maps are outdated, you don’t know strand capacity until you’re in a manhole, and you’re juggling spreadsheets that should’ve been retired years ago.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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Solve the Labyrinth: How Detailed Fiber Mapping Software Transforms Capacity Planning
By Fred Koh - January 31, 2024Introduction: Fiber Plant Management Challenges If you manage your organization’s fiber plant, you know (a little too well…) that you’re in charge of a complex and incredibly intricate and hidden ecosystem full of conduits, cables, strands, splice boxes, manholes, strands, handholes…the list goes on. Not knowing what you’ve got, where it is, and what you…
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How Well Does ChatGPT Describe netTerrain?
By Jan Durnhofer - January 24, 2024I have to admit it: many of us at Graphical Networks have been drawn into using ChatGPT for various purposes and, as a software company with a couple tentacles into AI (watch out for AI-based device modeling coming at some point), we’ve looked at this craze closely. Since I’d like to think I know netTerrain…
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Managing Fiber Capacity: Free Webinar Presented with BICSI
By Hannah Ash - November 15, 2023Graphical Networks is excited to partner with BICSI for an upcoming webinar titled “Managing Fiber Capacity.” This event continues our collaboration with BICSI, an organization dedicated to advancing the information and communications technology (ICT) community. Hosted by BICSI, the webinar features Jan Durnhofer, our CEO and Product Manager here at Graphical Networks, as the main…
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netTerrain Pricing Guide: Logical, DCIM, & OSP
By Fred Koh - September 14, 2023We make netTerrain, IT documentation and visualization software that takes your complex IT and generates beautiful diagrams that make sense of your networks. You can read more about netTerrain here. If you already know how netTerrain can help, you may be wondering, “great…but how much will it cost me?” How netTerrain Pricing Works netTerrain pricing,…
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Beyond the Demo: netTerrain’s User-Friendly Features That Deliver Big ROI
By Fred Koh - August 25, 2023Got IT headaches? Need real-time information about your IT infrastructure, automatic maps, and actionable reports in clicks? Our IT visualization/documentation platform netTerrain makes it easy. If you’re interested in netTerrain, your likely next step will probably be to book a demo or even start a free trial. We’d love to hear from you. Take note,…
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An OSP Solution for Everyone, Not Just for Telcos
By Fred Koh - August 2, 2023So…are you the main network person who has all of the knowledge of your company’s infrastructure and….you’re about set to sail to your golden years (and, as a pre-retirement present, your boss has tasked you to start putting everything in your brain into a solution where all of your knowledge will be retained for your…
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