In your building

Structured Cabling & Low-Voltage

Wireless, cameras, phones and the network all run on cable someone pulled. When that layer is guesswork, everything above it inherits the problem, and the fault always looks like it belongs to something else.

Signs You Need New Structured Cabling

Cable runs were added a few at a time by whoever was on site, and nobody knows what's behind the wall or where it ends.

If any of these describe your business, this service is usually the right place to start.

You're fitting out a new space or moving into a building.
Nobody can say which port in the rack goes to which desk.
Your network equipment sits on a closet shelf with cable hanging off it.
You're adding cameras or access points, and the cable isn't there.
Starting a meeting in the conference room takes two people and ten minutes.

Benefits of Professionally Installed Cabling

Anyone can trace a cable to its port without lifting a ceiling tile.
New cameras and access points land on cable that's already in place.
The server room is a place a person can actually work in.
Meetings in the conference room start on time.

How We Install Structured Cabling

We install cable to a standard. Runs stay within length, route away from interference, terminate properly and carry a label at both ends, so the next person doesn't trace them by hand with a tone generator.

The room at the end of the cable matters as much as the cable. Racks, patch panels, power and working space decide whether a change takes an hour or never gets attempted, and we build rooms other trades can work in, including the electrician and the phone vendor.

Then you get the paperwork: test results for every run and an as-built drawing that matches the building, filed with the rest of your documentation.

What Our Structured Cabling Services Include

Copper and fiber data cabling

Runs pulled and terminated to spec, sized for what will run on them in a few years. See cabling installation and certification.

Testing and certification

Every run tested to the standard it was installed to, with the results handed to you.

Racks and server rooms

Cabinets and patch panels laid out so a change is an hour of work, with power and cooling planned in. Our racks and server rooms page has more detail.

Cabling for security and wireless equipment

The cable behind cameras and door access and wireless access points, placed where the design puts it.

Audio visual and conference rooms

Displays, cameras, microphones and room controls, set up around the video platform your business meets on. See audio visual and conference rooms.

Labeling and as-built drawings

Both ends labeled and a drawing that matches the building, kept current as the building changes.

How a Cabling Project Works, Step by Step

We walk the buildingWe map where cable has to go and what's already there and usable. Most buildings have more usable cable than anyone thinks, usually in the wrong places.
You see the drawing before anything is pulledDrop counts, routes, rack layout and room location. Changing that on paper costs nothing, and changing it in a ceiling costs a day.
We install and label itRuns are pulled to spec and labeled at both ends. We leave the space in a state the next person can work in, whether or not that's us.
We test it and hand you the resultsEvery run is tested, and you get the results with a drawing that matches what's installed. You own both, and they make the next project quick to quote.

Low-Voltage Cabling on Construction and Fit-Out Projects

On a fit-out we're one trade among several, and low-voltage work has to happen at a particular point in someone else's schedule. We coordinate with the general contractor and the electrician directly.

We want to be involved while the walls are open, when a drop costs a fraction of what the same drop costs six months later. Our page on IT for construction companies covers the rest of our work in that industry.

Once it's in, the cabling carries your business network and your VoIP phone system, which we also install and support.

In their words

Structured Cabling and Low-Voltage FAQ

How is structured cabling priced?

Cabling is priced per drop, from the count on the drawing. Everything else, from the room work to any audio visual equipment, is quoted separately. You see the drawing the number is built on, so the scope can change while it's still on paper.

Do we have to replace the cable we already have?

Usually not all of it. Plenty of older cable carries what's running on it perfectly well. We test what's there and tell you which runs are worth keeping, which is normally the cheaper answer and occasionally an unwelcome one on a few specific runs.

Can you work while we're open?

Yes. It changes how the work is scheduled. Pulling cable above an occupied office usually happens in the evening or on weekends, and we plan it that way from the start.

Do you install the conference room equipment, or only the cable?

Both. Displays, cameras, microphones and room controls, set up around the platform your staff already meet on. The cable has to be right first, which is why the room and the cabling sit under one service and one vendor.

Do you work for general contractors?

Yes, as the low-voltage trade on a fit-out, and directly for the business moving in. Either way the drawings and test results belong to whoever owns the building.

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