Networking & Data Centre Solutions

Every system we install — cameras, barriers, access control, attendance, parking software — ultimately runs on a network. When that network is improvised, the symptoms show up everywhere else: cameras that drop at night, barriers that stop responding, software that is blamed for a cabling fault.

Structured cabling is the physical foundation. Done once and documented, it carries data, voice, CCTV and access control for the next ten to fifteen years. Done badly, it is re-pulled within two.

• Cat6 and Cat6A copper for horizontal runs to workstations, cameras and access points
• Single-mode and multi-mode fibre for backbone links between floors, buildings and blocks
• Patch panels, cable managers and labelling so that every outlet maps to a documented port
• Containment: trays, trunking, conduit and fire-stopping at wall and floor penetrations
• Testing and certification: every link tested for continuity, length, crosstalk and attenuation, with results handed over as a report

• Core and access switches, managed, with the port count and uplink capacity sized to actual load
• PoE and PoE+ switches to power IP cameras, access readers and wireless access points over the same cable that carries their data
• Routers and firewalls with VPN for branch connectivity and remote administration
• VLAN segmentation, so that cameras, guest wifi, office data and access control are kept on separate networks — a security measure, not a luxury
• Wireless: site-surveyed access point placement, seamless roaming, and separate guest and corporate SSIDs
• Network monitoring: alerts when a switch, link or camera goes offline, instead of finding out during an incident

A server room is not a store room with a rack in it. The elements below are what separate equipment that lasts from equipment that fails in its second summer.

CCTV is the single heaviest load most of our clients put on their network, and the one most often under-designed. When we plan a camera network we calculate bandwidth per camera at the intended resolution and frame rate, size the storage for the required retention period, put cameras on their own VLAN, and confirm the PoE power budget per switch rather than assuming it.

This is why our CCTV installations keep running after the first month. The camera is the easy part.

• Corporate offices and multi-floor head offices
• Factories and industrial units, including harsh and dusty environments
• Hospitals and diagnostic centres
• Universities, colleges and school campuses
• Housing societies, with fibre backbones between gates, blocks and the control room
• Banks and financial institutions
• Warehouses, dry ports and logistics facilities

1. Requirement study: user counts, device counts, applications, growth plan and retention requirements.
2. Site survey: building layout, riser positions, distances, power availability and existing infrastructure.
3. Design: rack elevations, cable schedules, single-line diagram, IP addressing and VLAN plan.
4. Supply: cable, containment, racks, switches, UPS and accessories.
5. Installation: containment first, cabling second, termination and dressing third — in that order, never rushed.
6. Testing and certification: link-by-link test results and a labelled port schedule.
7. Documentation and handover: as-built drawings, IP schedule, credentials handover and administrator training.
8. Support: annual maintenance, monitoring and fault call-out.