From structured cabling to virtualisation
Our networking team can take you all the way from passive structured cabling to data centre active switching — covering every type of network architecture and virtualisation across LAN, WAN and the data centre itself. Designed for the load you will have in three years, not the one you have today.
Network architecture
- LAN, WAN and SD-WAN design
- Core, distribution and access layer switching
- VLAN segmentation and inter-VLAN routing
- Quality of Service for voice, video and IPTV
- Redundancy, link aggregation and failover
- Multi-site and branch connectivity
Security & access
- Next-generation firewall deployment and rules
- Network segmentation for guest, staff and payment traffic
- Site-to-site and remote access VPN
- Content filtering and threat protection
- Wireless security, certificates and RADIUS
- Logging, alerting and periodic rule review
Data centre & servers
- Rack layout, power and cooling planning
- Server specification, supply and build
- Virtualisation hosts and clusters
- Shared storage and SAN/NAS configuration
- Structured cabling and patching within the rack
- UPS sizing and controlled shutdown
Backup & disaster recovery
- Backup design against real recovery objectives
- On-site, off-site and cloud copies
- Immutable and air-gapped copies against ransomware
- Replication to a secondary site or cloud
- Restore testing — not just backup monitoring
- Documented recovery runbooks
Wireless networks
- Coverage survey and heat mapping
- Access point placement and channel planning
- High-density design for public areas
- Guest portals, vouchers and bandwidth tiers
- Seamless roaming and mesh where required
- Ongoing performance monitoring
Monitoring & management
- 24/7 monitoring of links, devices and services
- Alerting before users notice a problem
- Capacity and bandwidth trend reporting
- Firmware and patch lifecycle management
- Configuration backup and change control
- Documented as-built topology, kept current
Build it so a failure is boring
Hardware fails, links drop and power is interrupted. A well-designed network makes those events uneventful: a redundant path takes over, a UPS holds the rack, a secondary link carries the traffic and the business keeps working while we replace the failed part.
A poorly designed one turns the same failure into a lost trading day. The difference costs surprisingly little at design time and is very expensive to retrofit — which is why we insist on doing the design properly before quoting the hardware.
| Failure | Designed response |
|---|---|
| Primary internet link down | Automatic failover to secondary circuit |
| Access switch fails | Only that segment affected; core unaffected |
| Power interruption | UPS holds the rack, controlled shutdown if extended |
| Server hardware failure | Virtual machines restart on a surviving host |
| Ransomware encrypts a share | Restore from an immutable off-site copy |
| Configuration error | Roll back from an automatic config backup |
Have your network reviewed honestly
We will audit what you have, tell you where the single points of failure are, and price only what genuinely needs changing.