Fiber Mapping Software: 4 Biggest Benefits to Your Organization
By Fred Koh - April 28, 2022If you’re managing a large network of fiber, you already know that finding where it all goes and getting that documented can be a major pain in the neck. When connections don’t indicate your end points, you can find yourself tracking fiber over many miles just to find the endpoint! Documenting your fiber plant is…
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Fiber Documentation is Critical: Here’s Why
By Fred Koh - March 21, 2022In IT, documentation has the power to save you time, money, and space…plus, it allows you to troubleshoot far more quickly (which saves a whole lot of hassle, annoyance, and even loss of reputation). As we’ve discussed in this blog over the years, far too many organizations and managers still skip documentation — even as…
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Graphical Networks Exhibits at BICSI Winter 2022
By Hannah Ash - January 24, 2022Graphical Networks, makers of netTerrain — IT visualization software used by hundreds of fiber professionals to help document and manage the fiber plant — will be attending the upcoming BICSI Winter Conference and Exposition 2022 in sunny Orlando, Florida . The exhibit hall opens on January 31st – February 2nd at the Orlando World Center…
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Complaint of the week: missing fiber strand counts!
By Jan Durnhofer - November 30, 2021To put the cap on this year, we’re revving back up our “complaint of the week” series —as you may recall, this series is devoted to exposing holes in our product. While it may be a bit different for a software vendor to discuss real-life problems users encounter, we aim for a collaborative environment and…
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Handholes, Manholes, & Other OSP Location Maps
By Fred Koh - November 15, 2021Need location maps of your fiber plant’s handholes, manholes, conduits, and more? With netTerrain OSP software, it’s easy: you can add, view, and search for any elements in your OSP network in seconds (no more sorting through various spreadsheets and Google Earth customizations!).You can document all of your connections, your manholes, handholes, fiber enclosures, splitters,…
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Every OSP Network Professional Should Read This Blog
By Fred Koh - October 19, 2021Do you work on OSP (outside plant) / fiber plant networks? If you do, hats off to you: your job is tough. Are you stuck using spreadsheets and Google Earth customizations to manage but your fiber’s outgrowing it? Do visions of damage from backhoes keep you up at night? Under pressure to manage fiber capacity…
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Got Fiber Plant Diagrams?
By Fred Koh - July 20, 2021During 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
By Fred Koh - July 16, 2021When 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
By Fred Koh - May 21, 2021Your 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
By Fred Koh - April 21, 2021Graphical 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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netTerrain OSP at BICSI’s Virtual Winter Conference & Exhibition
By Fred Koh - December 4, 2020To say that this year has been difficult, across the globe, is an understatement. Over the past several months, we’ve all found new ways to get the job done amidst adversity and logistical issues — including annual trade shows. Whether you’re a regular attendee at BICSI or have yet to attend a BICSI event, we…
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What is Data Center Network Documentation?
By Fred Koh - November 2, 2020We often discuss network documentation in this blog — it is, afterall, what our flagship product netTerrain, does (and well)! netTerrain, in a nutshell, is a complete network and data center documentation solution: it encompasses network diagrams/mapping, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), and outside/fiber plant…in one solution. In this article, we’ll discuss what data center…
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