Our stencils provide everything you need to create outstanding, detailed, accurate, high-quality and true-to-life AV/IT visualizations for planning, documenting, tracking and troubleshooting purposes

The NetZoom Stencils library will enable you to create unsurpassed network designs, audio-video installation plans, floor layouts, connectivity tracings, rack elevations, device configurations, logical diagrams, topologies and much more.

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Build connections to diagram your data center assets easily and efficiently. All you need to do is search for the device you need and drop it into your rack. Create infinite infrastructure variations displaying data and power connections between racks, devices, modules and ports.

Connectivity Between Racks

  • Create port-to-port power and network connections
  • View connections between devices
  • Visualize connections between racks

Physical and Logical Connections

  • Manage connectivity between assets
  • Highly detailed, accurate port-to-port connections
  • Configurable slots with cards and modules

Are you using Microsoft Visio to create network or server room diagrams, data center floor layouts or rack elevations? NetZoom Visio Stencils helps you model and visualize the data center to any level including: site, location, floor, room, zone, pod, row, rack, device, card, and port as well as all the interconnectivity between the ports. Drag and drop any server or any other device into an empty rack and copy and paste the same rack as needed. The fully scalable and detailed vector graphics allow magnification to high resolution to achieve accurate technical documentation of your infrastructure. The built-in ports enable the creation of port-to-port connectivity diagrams.

  • Device properties
  • Front and rear views
  • Drag and drop stencils into racks
  • Intelligent, connectable ports

Data center floor and room layouts

Create detailed top-views of floor and room layouts for data centers

  • Design locations of any shape and size
  • Drag and drop top views of racks or cabinet from the NetZoom Stencils library to create zones, pods, aisles and rows
  • Notate your hot and cold aisles
  • Drill down into any rack from its top view to build out its detailed front and rear rack elevation
  • Place top views of any floor equipment or CRAC units and represent air flows
  • Color code racks based on their power utilization
  • Color code and represent any hot spots
  • Represent any inter-rack connections
  • Create multiple layers in Microsoft Visio to represent sub-floors, raised floors, ceilings or walls on top of the floor

Logical diagrams

A logical network diagram describes the way information flows through a network. Such diagrams can usually show subnets (including VLAN IDs, masks and addresses), network devices like routers and firewalls, and routing protocols. In the OSI model, logical network diagrams correlate with the information contained in L3 (network layer), which is an abstraction layer that deals with packet forwarding through intermediate routers. A logical diagrams helps capture subnets (IPs, VLAN IDs, subnet masks), network address, routers, VPN devices, firewalls, crucial servers, logical interfaces, routing protocols and domains, voice gateways, traffic flow and network segments. 

L1 and L2 information does not belong on a logical diagram. 
You need the following to build a good logical diagram: 

  • L2 (or L1) diagram – presenting physical connections between L3 devices and switches.
  • L3 and L2 device configurations

You can leverage the expansive collection of logical shapes from the NetZoom Stencils library representing every type of hardware category and other logical network representations to build out your logical diagram. 

To build a logical diagram, we recommend you follow these guidelines: 

  • Collect IP-address definition for the interfaces and static route from configuration
  • visualize all information and draw/represent the device for configuration
  • Draw a subnet and give it name and IP address. 
  • Connect the device and subnet together.  On the connection label, enter a logical interface name and IP-address
  • If there is another device connected to the subnet, represent that similarly
  • Repeat this step-by-step process for every network device
  • For devices you don’t know, you can go back and identify those later through additional information

Model Your A/V Layouts

Conceptualize, visualize, plan and document your audio-video projects with Visio shapes of an unequaled look, technical accuracy and visual precision. Whether you are diagramming studio equipment, broadcast, multi-media systems or home theaters, you can rely on Visio Stencils by NetZoom.

Audio Video Solutions

  • A/V interfaces, connectors and cables
  • Manufacturer-based properties data
  • High quality vector graphics

Home Automation Diagram

  • Audio & video connector types
  • Pre-designed templates
  • Quick and easy configuration of A/V devices
  • Configurable slots with cards and modules

Home Theater Diagram

  • Icons of common jacks and plugs
  • Professional looking sockets & slots
  • Drag and drop stencils into a Visio file

Audio-Video diagrams come to life with NetZoom Visio Stencils

Audio and Video Installations

Visualize, design & document your audio and video assets such as recording rooms, production studios, conference halls, security areas and home theater entertainment systems. The NetZoom Visio Library offers a broad range of hardware categories such as multi-media, switches, amplifiers, HDMI, DVI, digital coaxial, receivers, microphones and speakers to produce outstanding wiring diagrams easily and efficiently. NetZoom Visio Stencils are vector drawings of equipment that scale and snap into place whenever connected.

  • Audio-video layouts
  • Built-in ports for connectivity
  • Configurable slots
  • Broad range of device categories

See How Your Network is Connected

Create a map of your network topology for visualization and reporting purposes. See how your network is connected: computers, peripherals, telecom, surveillance devices and fiber and optic cabling. Draw the layout architecture using either of physical devices or logical symbols.

 
Mapping Internet Access

  • Internet connectivity
  • Routers, printers, computers, security cameras
  • Wi-Fi connections

 
Local Area Network Solution

  • Wires and cables
  • Ethernet LAN diagrams
  • Access points, servers, workstations, firewalls

 
Solution for Switches

  • Single and multi-point switches and hubs
  • Active directory diagrams
  • Switches, routers, firewalls, blade servers, servers

Create Impressive Telecom and Network Diagrams

Network connectivity in data centers

Diagram your network topology for end-to-end visibility of IT devices and their connections. The NetZoom Visio Stencils library allows you to map the network and all the elements within the network irrespective of its size or complexity. The shape library includes a comprehensive collection of stencils to enable you to draw any network infrastructure. Plan your telecom networks, computer networks, telephone networks, Internet, global Telex network and aeronautical ACARS networks using a single source of Visio stencils:

  • Telecommunication between the terminals
  • Transmission links connecting the nodes together
  • Circuit switching

Data and power wiring and connectivity tracing

The embedded ports within our equipment shapes enable detailed and accurate wiring and port-to-port connectivity between devices all the way down to the cards and modules. 

  • Manage physical or logical connections
  • Built-in, intelligent connection points for each port within a card, module or device
  • Create detailed power connections as well as build power redundancy maps
  • Create detailed copper and fiber network connections
  • Use the exact cables from the NetZoom Stencils library to represent your connections
  • Create inter-rack or intra-rack connections, as well as inter-device or intra-device connections
  • Create patch panel connectivity
  • Color code your connections to represent them easily
  • Route your connections so its easy to comprehend
  • Label your connections as well as ports so you can clearly tell what source is connected to what destination using what cable
  • Create connectivity trace diagrams to identify any device impacts for troubleshooting

Network Topologies

You can leverage the expansive collection of logical shapes from the NetZoom Stencils library representing every type of hardware category and other logical network representations to build out your logical network topology or directly drag and drop any of the real-life representations of the hardware products themselves from the NetZoom Stencils library to build out a physical network topology.

A few basic types of network topologies are as follows:

  • Bus topology (backbone, linear, ethernet topology) : This usually contains all the nodes connected by a central medium called a bus, which has two endpoints. They are easy configurable and need less cable length, but they do make troubleshooting difficult if the bus breaks down as that impacts the entire network.
  • Ring topology : Nodes are connected in a circular fashion with packets of information being sent through the ring till they reach the destination. Ring topologies can outperform bus topologies and can be configured easily. However, similar to the bus topology, they are vulnerable and can make troubleshooting difficult if a single node fails, the whole network can be impacted, and additionally bandwidth must be shared between devices and connections in such a topology.
  • Star topology : These are very common and consist of a central hub / switch, through which all data passes, and all other nodes are connected to the central node. They are reliable as even if individual nodes are impacted, the remaining network doesn’t need to be impacted, but if the central node hub / switch is impacted, the other nodes cannot access it then. Star topologies also usually have higher cable costs.
  • Mesh topology : These come in two varieties – full mess where each node is directly connected to every other node, and partial mesh, where nodes are only connected to nodes they interact with most. Most networks implement a hybrid. Ex: tree topology = bus topology + mesh topology.