Don’t Buy DCIM Software That’s Like a Home Printer
By Fred Koh - May 23, 2023We all know the drill: you buy a home printer and before you know it, you’re locked into buying the vendor’s pricey ink for the lifespan of the printer. The printer vendor gives you only one cartridge type as an option and it’s sold at a ridiculous markup. Is there a workaround? Well, sure: you…
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Avoid Headline-Making Network Outages: Prevent Expensive Downtime
By Fred Koh - May 22, 2023There’s been a rise in news stories lately about companies experiencing network disruptions, like the infamous Southwest Airlines outage that was caused by a vendor-supplied network firewall. Headline-making incidents like this underline the need to take measures that prevent network disruptions…before you become a news story! According to the Uptime Institute, third-party outages – such…
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Resources: Easily Learn How IT Documentation/Visualization Software Helps
By Adriana Lora - May 1, 2023Need software that makes it easy to understand, manage, and visualize your fiber infrastructure, data center, or logical network? We have a boatload of resources that our team here at Graphical Networks has created to make your IT documentation/visualization buying process smooth sailing! When it comes to finding the right IT software for OSP software,…
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netTerrain Quarterly Newsletter Q2,2023
By Hannah Ash - April 27, 2023At Graphical Networks, we’re continuing our commitment to stay in touch with you, our awesome customers, on a regular basis and keep you up to date on all things netTerrain. Our second quarterly newsletter has hit the virtual presses: our sophomore issue includes a comprehensive product roadmap, engineering updates (including the scoop on our recent…
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Fiber Mapping Software: OSP vs. GIS
By Fred Koh - April 24, 2023Do you have fiber management headaches such as: not knowing how much capacity you’ve got, how much capacity you need, where everything is, or not knowing what you need to take with you to fix an issue? Need a tool that will help you easily document and manage your fiber plant? Are you sick of…
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Streamline IT Asset Management (ITAM): How DCIM Software Helps
By Fred Koh - April 20, 2023Introduction: What is IT asset management (ITAM) and why you need it IT asset management (ITAM) is important because it assists organizations in managing their IT assets throughout their entire life cycle, including acquisition, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning. This ensures efficient resource allocation and effective utilization of assets. If you have headaches related to efficiency,…
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Solarwinds Users, Make Network Documentation Easy Using netTerrain
By Fred Koh - April 19, 2023Do you use Solarwinds?Are you fed up with struggling to keep track of all your network devices, their locations, and associated metadata? Having trouble managing your network documentation and visualizing the relationships between IT? netTerrain is network documentation software (and visualization) that you can use to document and visualize your network. With netTerrain, understanding and…
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Fiber Mapping Software & Fiber Strand Documentation: What, How, Why
By Fred Koh - April 18, 2023As a fiber professional, you understand the importance of documenting and mapping fiber strands in your fiber plant documentation — which involves not only documenting the plant itself but also individual fiber strands. Clear fiber documentation and mapping are crucial for troubleshooting issues and making changes to your fiber plant in the future. To manage…
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Beam Me Up, Scotty: Migrating to a New DCIM Solution
By Fred Koh - April 3, 2023Are you lost in space: stuck with an outdated DCIM system, and feeling like you’re aboard a malfunctioning starship? Perhaps you’re dealing with high costs, limited features, poor customer service, or your DCIM vendor has been acquired or discontinued support (or, maybe even worse, you’ve received no communications from your vendor in a long time…
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netTerrain 9.6: Rich Text Support, OSP Upgrades, & More
By Jan Durnhofer - March 31, 2023The eagle has landed once again: we’re thrilled to announce the release of netTerrain 9.6! Packed with user-driven enhancements, Collector upgrades, and the usual mix of new features, small fixes, and improvements, this latest version of netTerrain delivers even more user-friendly tools to help you get your work done even more quickly and easily. Check…
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FAQ: netTerrain Free Trials
By Adriana Lora - March 24, 2023We get a lot of questions regarding our 14-day free trial, so here we go! Before we dive in — real quick, let’s get a couple disclaimers out of the way: First, if you are looking for a tool that will find what is on your network and need to know what it is connected…
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Network Discovery vs. Network Monitoring
By Fred Koh -Hey, new network Admin! Congrats on your new gig! So, when you fire up your computer and start digging into the company’s network, do you ever feel like you’re Peter in Office Space, trying to figure out what the heck is going on with the TPS reports? Are you desperately searching for spreadsheets and Visio…
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