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Service 01 — Design

Network architecture

A network should be planned before it is plugged in. We survey your site, model your traffic and design a clean, documented architecture — addressing, segmentation, resilience and growth headroom included.

Typical timeline
2–4 weeks
Best for
New offices, expansions, refits
Deliverable
Blueprint + bill of materials
Wooden figures linked in a network diagram

Overview

Planned on paper, proven on site

Most network pain — dead zones, slow afternoons, mystery outages — traces back to a design that never existed. We start with a walkthrough and a traffic profile: how many people, devices, calls, cameras and cloud apps the network must carry at peak.

Then we produce a full blueprint: topology, VLAN and addressing plan, hardware schedule, cable routes and Wi-Fi heatmaps. You approve it before anything is purchased, so there are no surprises on install day — and every later change has documentation to work from.

Server racks with red cables

What’s included

Everything in the blueprint

01

Site survey & traffic model

Floor plans, device counts and peak-load modelling for your actual workload.

02

Topology & segmentation

Core, distribution and access layers with VLANs separating staff, guests and IoT.

03

Resilience planning

Dual WAN, redundant power paths and failover so one fault never stops work.

04

Hardware schedule

Right-sized switches, routers and access points with an itemised bill of materials.

05

Addressing & naming plan

Clean IP schemes and device naming your team — and ours — can read at a glance.

06

Growth headroom

Spare capacity for headcount, cameras and new sites without re-architecting.

Process

How we deliver it

  1. 01

    Walkthrough

    We visit, measure and listen — pain points first, technology second.

  2. 02

    Design

    Topology, heatmaps and hardware schedule drafted for your sign-off.

  3. 03

    Review

    We walk you through the blueprint in plain language and refine it together.

  4. 04

    Handover

    Full documentation pack you can hand to any installer — including us.

Cabled server rack

Related services

Structured Cabling →Turn the blueprint into cable. Business Wi-Fi →Modelled coverage, room by room. Network Security →Segment and lock down the design.

Planning a move or a refit?

Get a surveyed, documented design before you spend a dollar on hardware.

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