Why Financial Institutions Can’t Afford Outdated Network and Data Center Management
By Fred Koh - December 18, 2025In financial services IT, small documentation gaps can slow incident response and increase operational risk. If you work in financial IT, you know all too well how small gaps turn into big problems…fast: A missed dependency An undocumented port An outdated rack diagram Any one of these can mean longer outages, slower audits, and higher-risk…
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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 If you’re like so many of the teams I speak with, you’re stuck dealing with “documentation” scattered in outdated spreadsheets, CAD files on…
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The Changing DCIM and OSP Landscape: Why a Niche Vendor Like netTerrain Makes Sense
By Fred Koh - December 1, 2025DCIM and OSP tools have changed in more recent years. Many of the well-known platforms reached end-of-life, merged into larger hardware ecosystems, or slowed down their development. More and more teams have started looking at DCIM alternatives, vendor-neutral options, and OSPInsight replacements because they need software that will stay consistent over time. When, to use…
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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we talk to field engineers, planners and OSP managers every day — and one thing we hear loud and clear: your maps are outdated, you don’t know strand capacity until you’re in a manhole, and you’re juggling spreadsheets that should’ve been retired years ago.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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netTerrain 10.0: New Power, New Look. 10.x Lands.
By Jan Durnhofer - October 7, 2025The eagle lands again — this time with flight logs. netTerrain 10.0 is here – the start of the 10.x series and one of our most powerful releases to date. This release introduces time-series performance for SNMP data, integrated discovery with distributed probes, a refreshed GUI, built-in IPAM, SSO/SAML 2.0, a new SMS/email notification engine,…
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2026 netTerrain User Summit
By Fred Koh - May 15, 2025On behalf of everyone here at Graphical Networks, I’m excited to announce that the 2026 netTerrain User Summit runs October 11–14, 2026 at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada. Whether you’re new to netTerrain, one of our partners, or you’ve been using it for years, you’ll find…
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netTerrain Q1 2025 Update: What’s New & What’s Next
By Hannah Ash - February 3, 2025The Q1 2025 netTerrain Newsletter is now available. This edition includes updates on our product roadmap, a customer success story, upcoming events, and more. 🔹 What’s Inside? Roadmap & Engineering Updates – netTerrain 9.9 is here, and netTerrain 10.0 is on the horizon. Customer Success Story – Learn how Pitkin County Telecom streamlined their documentation…
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See You at Data Center World 2025!
By Hannah Ash - January 31, 2025The Graphical Networks team is excited to announce that we’ll once again be exhibiting at AFCOM’s Data Center World 2025 Conference! This year, the event takes place from April 14-17, 2025, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.—just a short distance from our headquarters here in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 📍 Details: What: 🌐…
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netTerrain 9.9: Enhanced Features, Performance Upgrades, & More
By Jason Sherman - January 30, 2025In keeping with netTerrain release tradition: the eagle lands again. 9.9 marks the final iteration in the 9x series. With each release, we work to make netTerrain even easier to use and more impactful. How to Download 9.9: To upgrade, just log in to netTerrain as an administrator, access the admin console, and click the…
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netTerrain 9.8: Enhanced Features, Performance Upgrades, & More
By Jan Durnhofer - August 2, 2024The eagle lands once again: we’re excited to announce the release of netTerrain 9.8. Packed with user-driven enhancements, new features, and improvements, this latest version of netTerrain is designed to make your IT documentation and management tasks easier and more efficient. For a deeper dive into the key features, check out the video from our…
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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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