Manage Your Outside Plant: Mapping Fiber Strands in a Splice Box
By Jan Durnhofer - May 29, 2018In this article and video, the third segment in our series on managing your outside plant with dynamic maps, you will learn how to apply netTerrain OSP to a very common scenario in GPON network mapping and fiber documentation: creating fiber strands and mapping them to a duct (you can click here to watch the…
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Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps: Manholes, Conduits, Ducts
By Jan Durnhofer - May 14, 2018Welcome back to our series on managing your outside plant with dynamic maps: in this second installment in the series, you’ll learn how to place manholes, conduits, and ducts within your outside plant diagrams. In the introduction to this series, you got an overview of how you can create maps in netTerrain. To recap, these…
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Tales of Fiber Network Outages
By Jason Sherman - April 18, 2018Ever seen the insurance ad that goes something like, “Insurance: when you need it, you really need it” alongside a photograph of a house with extensive damage? Fiber network documentation goes something like that: when you need it, you really need it. Fiber networks are, by their nature, vulnerable to damage. Wondering what the top…
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Why Airports Need Inside & Outside Network Maps
By Jason Sherman - April 16, 2018Ever really look at a map of the airport? It’s a bustling network of terminals, concourses, shopping centers, food courts, kiosks, security checkpoints, and, of course, airplanes. If you’ve ever been delayed for hours, you know that airports can be a destination unto themselves (for better or worse). Airports are constantly evolving — and their…
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Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps (Intro)
By Jan Durnhofer - March 15, 2018Need an easier way to document and map your fiber backbone? netTerrain OSP*, our outside plant management platform, is used by our customers to manage their inside and outside plants — from fiber splices to manholes to GIS-enabled street views (with 6-decimal precision) all the way to fiber patch panels inside buildings. This blog series…
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Why Do You Need Flexible DCIM & Network Mapping Software?
By Jason Sherman - February 14, 2018netTerrain, an automated DCIM and network mapping software suite, adapts to your project…and its unique needs. Let me be clear: netTerrain adapts to your needs — without consultants, months of waiting time, an onboarding process that feels more like training for Mount Everest, and a bunch of extra expenditures you (and your boss) didn’t see…
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Intro: netTerrain’s API for DCIM, Network Documentation, and Outside Plant
By Jan Durnhofer - January 26, 2018Despite all the recent hoopla, API’s have been around for a long time. Without realizing it, we use API’s all the time: we use them when we make an airline reservation…we use them when we check the weather on our phones. API’s bridge together several moving parts to serve up a desired result to the…
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Pickaxe Causes Data Center Outage (Yes, a Pickaxe)
By Jason Sherman - December 22, 2017‘Tis the season…for generosity, cheer, and…apparently…massive data center outages (ok, ok: it’s always the season for massive data center outages). Are you prepared for the worst? Your outside plant cabling is, well, outside…as a result, it’s vulnerable. Let’s face it: stuff happens. Take a British cloud hosting company’s recent perils on December 13th: they suffered…
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Fiber & Outside Plant Software: What’s the Cost? What are the Features?
By Fred Koh - November 7, 2016In this blog, I want to discuss our recently released product, netTerrain Outside Plant and, particularly, how it compares to other products out there in terms of both features and pricing. netTerrain OSP helps you visually manage your fiber, copper, transmission and wireless networks; you can take control of your outside plant connectivity with dynamic…
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How are DCIM, Network Documentation & OSP Priced?
By Fred Koh - August 18, 2016As you may have noticed, there’s been a series of interesting developments at Graphical Networks lately… For starters, we have a completely revamped website. We also just launched netTerrain 6.6 (finally!) and we introduced a new product for outside plant called netTerrain OSP. netTerrain OSP is ideal for campus fiber management, wireless network documentation, advanced…
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Outside Plant Software: Meet netTerrain OSP
By Hannah Ash - August 3, 2016Our customers asked for it – and we delivered: a solution for documenting wireless and fiber optic networks. With the release of netTerrain 6.6, netTerrain Outside Plant (OSP) software is live. In this introductory blog to our new series on Outside Plant software, we’ll give you an overview of what netTerrain OSP is and how…
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netTerrain 6.6: Outside Plant & More
By Hannah Ash - July 12, 2016netTerrain 6.6 Has Arrived: Outside Plant is Here! Summer is finally here and all of us at Graphical Networks hope the season brings you lots of warm memories – and efficient data center cooling, of course! It was a productive and busy spring season for our team, and we’re excited to give you an update…
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