Structured Cabling Solutions
Cabling that will still carry your network in ten years.
Copper and fibre infrastructure, designed to standards, installed by certified technicians, and handed over with the test results to prove it.
The problem this solves
Cabling is the one part of your infrastructure you cannot swap out on a weekend. It goes in behind walls and above ceilings at the start of a project, and it has to carry everything you connect to it for the next decade: voice, data, video, wireless access points, cameras, access control, building systems.
Get it right and nobody thinks about it again. Get it wrong and you spend years chasing intermittent faults nobody can reproduce, running out of capacity three floors at a time, and paying twice to rip out and redo work in an occupied building.
Why it matters
Bad cabling does not announce itself. It shows up as a wireless access point that keeps dropping, a camera that goes offline in the afternoon, a link that negotiates at a tenth of the speed it should. Teams lose days to it and usually blame the network switch.
Doing it properly the first time costs a fraction of doing it twice, and almost nothing next to a floor of people who cannot work.
What we deliver
- Copper cabling systems. Cat6, Cat6A and above, horizontal and backbone
- Fibre optic cabling. Single mode and multimode, fusion splicing and termination
- Containment. Tray, ladder and riser design and installation
- Racks and patching. Cabinet layout, patching and a documented labelling scheme
- Testing and certification. Every point tested, results issued as a report
- Warranty registration. Manufacturer warranty where the system qualifies
Every solution page is a real page at a readable address. We do not bury eleven services as anchors on one URL, which is how the largest integrator in our market currently handles this.
Placeholder imageHow we approach it
The same five steps as every job we run, scoped to this discipline.
Assess
We walk the building, read the drawings and ask what has to run on this in five years.
Design
Routes, containment, rack layout and a labelling scheme agreed before anything is ordered.
Install
Certified technicians, phased around your operation, containment before cable.
Test
Every point tested to standard, not sampled. Failures fixed and retested, not noted.
Hand over
Test report, as-builts, port schedules and the labelling map, in a pack your team can use.
Standards and suppliers
We name the standard we build to, in writing, before we start. A named standard is a commitment. "Industry best practice" is not.
Final standards list to confirm with Engineering.
What you get at handover
Six documents, handed over as a pack. If your team cannot operate the system from it, we have not finished the job.
Who it is for
Often delivered with
Related projects
Project cards land here once the Project Data Request comes back from Engineering.
Common questions
Do you test every point, or sample?
Every point. Sampling is how a building ends up with four bad links nobody finds for two years. The full certification report is part of handover, not something you have to request afterwards.
Cat6 or Cat6A?
It depends on horizontal run lengths, what PoE load the cable has to carry, and how long you need the installation to last. We will give you a straight recommendation once we have seen the drawings, including where Cat6A is not worth the money.
Can you work in an occupied building?
Yes, and most of our work is. We phase around your operation and work the hours that suit it. Nobody should lose a working day because we needed a ceiling open.
Who owns the documentation afterwards?
You do. As-built drawings, port schedules, the labelling map and the test results are handed over as a pack. If your facility team cannot work from it, we have not finished the job.
Can you take over a job another contractor started?
Yes, after a survey. We will give you a written position on what we can stand behind and what we cannot, before we quote. We will not warrant work we did not see go in.
Do you offer a manufacturer warranty?
Where the system qualifies, we register it. That depends on using a matched component set from a single manufacturer and installing to their specification, which we will tell you at design stage rather than after.
Send us the drawings.
Or just tell us the size of the building and what has to run on it. We will come back with a scope, a standards position and an honest view of what it takes.