Corporate & Enterprise
Enterprise IT Infrastructure
Switching, cabling, wireless, comms rooms and power for an office that will be re-planned several times before the cable is replaced.
The defining requirement of corporate infrastructure is not peak performance but tolerance of change. Offices are re-planned every few years and the technology has to absorb it, so the useful measures are headroom ones: outlets per desk position rather than per current desk, containment with space left in it, and switch capacity that does not need extending the first time a team grows.
The second requirement is continuity. In an office, an outage is measured in people multiplied by hours, which makes redundancy easy to justify once it is expressed that way — dual uplinks from each floor, two circuits into the building where it is available, and a UPS whose autonomy has been tested at the load it actually carries.
The third is that the network is no longer only for computers. Room systems, cameras, door controllers and sensors all terminate on it, and each is an appliance that is rarely patched. Segmentation is what keeps one of them from being a route to the finance system.
What this covers
Structured cabling with headroom
Category 6A horizontal and fibre backbone, with outlet counts and containment sized for re-planning rather than for the current layout.
Layered switching
Access, distribution and core with redundant uplinks, PoE budget calculated across the switch, and spare ports declared as a number.
Comms rooms
Cabinets, patching, UPS, cooling and environmental monitoring, with the airflow path designed rather than improvised.
Wireless for open plan
Density-led access point placement and roaming tuned so a wireless call survives a walk between meeting rooms.
Management and backup
Central configuration management with backups, so a failed switch is replaced from a saved configuration rather than rebuilt from memory.
What we will ask you
These are the questions that decide the specification. Having the answers ready is what turns a first conversation into a real quotation.
- 01
How often does the floor plan change?
The answer sets how much headroom is worth buying. Frequent churn makes generous provisioning cheaper than repeated small projects.
- 02
What does an hour of downtime cost?
Expressed as people multiplied by hours, redundancy usually justifies itself immediately.
- 03
What non-IT devices are on the network?
Cameras, controllers, room systems, sensors. Enumerating them is the first step to segmenting them.