Active & passive infrastructure
A new office is judged in its first week by whether the network just works.
We build the physical layer everything else sits on: Cat6 or Cat6A structured cabling, racks and patch panels, managed switching, Wi-Fi 6 access points, IP CCTV and its cabling, projectors and conference rooms, network printers, access control and the trays and conduits that hold it all. Every link is certified with a test report, every port is labelled, and you get an as-built drawing — so the next engineer who opens the rack is not guessing.
- 90 m + 10 m
- Horizontal link and patch cords, per TIA-568
- 100%
- Links certified with a Fluke test report
- 20–25 yrs
- OEM system warranty on certified installs
Plain English
Active and passive — and why the passive side decides your next decade.
Passive infrastructure is everything that carries signal without power: cable, keystone jacks, faceplates, patch panels, racks, trays and fibre. Active infrastructure is everything that needs power and processes signal: switches, routers, access points, NVRs, IP phones and cameras. You will replace the active kit two or three times over the life of a single passive installation, which is why cutting corners on cable is the most expensive saving in the building.
The rules are not negotiable physics. ANSI/TIA-568 allows a 90 metre permanent link plus 10 metres of patch cords — 100 metres of channel, total. Cat6 carries 10 Gbps only for short runs; Cat6A holds it to the full distance. Anything beyond 100 metres, or between floors and buildings, moves to fibre — OM4 multimode inside, OS2 singlemode for longer backbone.
Power over Ethernet is what makes a modern office tidy: 802.3af delivers about 15 W, 802.3at (PoE+) 30 W, and 802.3bt up to 60–90 W for PTZ cameras and high-density access points. Budget the switch for the total load with headroom, or the last camera on the panel will reboot every evening when the IR illuminators come on.
Sound familiar?
If two of these describe your month, this is the fix.
You are fitting out a new office and every vendor quotes a different scope, so the quotes cannot be compared.
The existing rack is an unlabelled nest — tracing one dead port takes an afternoon.
Cameras drop off at night, the boardroom projector loses signal, and the Wi-Fi dies in the corner meeting room nobody surveyed.
What we actually do
The work, step by step — not a feature list.
Design, drawings and a bill of materials you can tender
Floor-plate node counts, rack elevations, pathway routing per TIA-569, port schedules and a specified BoM. Because the scope is written down, three vendors can quote the same job and you can actually compare them.
Structured cabling to standard, certified on completion
Cat6 or Cat6A horizontal cabling, fibre backbone where distance demands it, correct bend radius, minimum untwist at termination, copper kept clear of power runs, and every link certified on a Fluke DSX against permanent-link and channel limits. Test reports are handed over as a file, not a verbal assurance.
Active install: switching, Wi-Fi, firewall and voice
Managed switches with VLANs separating staff, guest, CCTV, voice and building systems; Wi-Fi 6/6E access points placed from a survey rather than by eye; firewall and internet handover; IP phones and softphones configured with the users who will use them.
CCTV, AV, printers and everything else on the wall
IP camera mounting and cabling with an NVR sized to your real retention requirement, projectors and displays over HDMI or HDBaseT where the run exceeds 15 metres, network printers with fixed reservations, access control and biometric readers, plus the trays, conduits, earthing and TIA-606 labelling that keep it maintainable.
What you receive
Deliverables you can hold us to.
- Network design pack: floor drawings, rack elevations, port schedule and bill of materials
- Certified cabling with per-link Fluke test reports for every outlet
- Labelled racks, patch panels and outlets to ANSI/TIA-606-B
- Configured switches, access points, firewall, CCTV, AV and printers
- As-built documentation, IP address plan, credentials handover and OEM warranty registration
Platforms and partners
Vendor-fluent, vendor-neutral.
We design to what your business needs, then price at least two ways of getting there. You see the commercials for each option side by side before anyone signs anything — including the option where you keep what you already own.
How we start
From first call to live in four steps.
- 01
A 45-minute conversation
What you run, what worries you, and what a bad week has already cost you. No slides and no product pitch — we are working out whether we can genuinely help.
- 02
Posture assessment
We examine the estate, compare it against a recognised framework and hand you a prioritised list of gaps. The report is yours to keep whether or not you buy anything.
- 03
Onboarding and a rehearsal
Log sources, agents, access and escalation contacts are agreed, then we run a live drill of a real incident before we call the service live. Untested escalation paths are decoration.
- 04
Steady-state operations
Monitoring, response and reporting run to a written SLA, with a quarterly review that changes the plan whenever your business changes.
Questions
What buyers ask us about office network setup & cabling.
What usually comes next
All servicesSOC as a Service
A team of analysts watching your systems every hour of the day, deciding which alerts are real and acting on them.
02NOC as a Service
Continuous monitoring of networks, servers and applications so faults are caught and fixed before your users notice.
09Active Directory Deployment
Designing, building or repairing the directory that decides who your systems trust — and then hardening it.
Tell us the sites, the users and the deadline.
You will get a written design, a bill of materials and a fixed commercial within three working days. No discovery fee, no obligation to buy.