Tag Archives: osp
Industry Spotlight: Fiber Mapping Software for University & College Campuses
By Fred Koh - August 30, 2022Managing a university or college’s IT infrastructure and fiber is no easy feat: with campus expansions, satellite locations, and an endless parade of new technologies placing demands on your fiber (Harvard has a wired forest, believe it or not — and University of Florida is piloting connected vehicle infrastructure). We make netTerrain: IT documentation software…
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Why Tiered Support Can Bring You “Teared” Support
By Fred Koh - January 28, 2022When something goes wrong with an application, or if your internet or cable tv goes out, the first thing you do is contact customer support and pray that you won’t get a robo service and end up stuck in a loop of pressing buttons just to try and reach someone, right? We’ve all been there…
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Do I really need Outside Plant (OSP) software?
By Jan Durnhofer - November 8, 2019Our OSP software module, netTerrain OSP, seems to pop-up in discussions with our current netTerrain users quite a bit lately, maybe because it is still relatively new (it is only 4 or 5 years old versus netTerrain’s network and DCIM features, which have been around for over a decade now). Because we’ve been fielding quite…
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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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Next Time an IT Asset Goes Missing, Don’t Call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
By Hannah Ash - April 13, 2017In the world of outside plant management, you get used to seeing different headlines related to the industry. Exciting ones such as, “TIA updating outside-plant, residential cabling standards”, if you catch my drift. So, when this gem of a story crossed my desk, “Miscommunication: 68 foot cell phone tower reported missing wasn’t stolen after all”,…
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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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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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netTerrain’s New GIS Software for Outside Plant
By Hannah Ash - March 11, 2016netTerrain’s New Outside Plant Solution (OSP) Raises the Bar for Web-based Data Visualization Graphical Networks to showcase netTerrain 6.6, with GIS Software, at the Las Vegas AFCOM Data Center World this month March 3rd, 2016 GAITHERSBURG, MD — At AFCOM’s Data Center World Global Conference in Las Vegas later this month, attendees will be able…
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