Network engineering
Fast, reliable, secure networks, done properly.
A network is the thing nobody thinks about until it is the reason nothing works. Most business network trouble is not exotic: consumer kit asked to do a commercial job, Wi-Fi placed where the sockets were rather than where the people are, and a firewall nobody has looked at since it was installed. The work here is design and documentation as much as hardware.
The work, named
- Business Wi-Fi and managed switching
- Coverage planned around where work actually happens, on equipment built to be managed rather than reset.
- Firewalls and secure remote access (VPN)
- A boundary with rules somebody can explain, and remote access that does not quietly become a second front door.
- Multi-site connectivity
- Sites joined so that they behave like one business, including what happens when one link goes down.
- Network monitoring
- Problems surfaced as they develop rather than reported by whoever gives up first.
Signs this is the one you need
- Wi-Fi is fine in some parts of the building and unusable in others
- The network grew by addition and nobody has a current diagram
- Remote access was set up quickly once and never revisited
- A second site, a mezzanine or a fit-out is being planned
- An insurer or a Cyber Essentials assessment has asked about the firewall
Four stages, same for every service
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Review
The free review: what you run, what is exposed, and where the risk actually sits, written down. The document is yours regardless of what happens next.
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Plan
A prioritised plan, sized to your business rather than pulled off a menu, with the quick wins named first.
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Price
A fixed price in writing, with what is included named: monthly for a plan, once for a project. Nothing starts before you have seen it.
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Revisit
The plan is revisited as the business changes, rather than left to drift out of date.
The things people ask
Do you supply the hardware or do we buy it?
Either. What matters is that the equipment is appropriate and manageable, not who places the order. The review establishes what you already have, because a surprising amount of network trouble is solved by configuring existing kit properly rather than replacing it.
Can you work with the network our previous provider built?
Usually yes, and the first job is documenting it. Inherited networks are common and the problem is rarely the design: it is that the reasoning behind it left with the person who built it.
Sectors with their own requirements
Related, and the rest of what we run
- Managed IT support
- Cyber security
- Telecoms and VoIP
- Data cabling
- Remote support
- Sectors we cover
- How pricing works
Not sure which of these you need? That is exactly what the free review is for. Book the free review.