Structured Cabling and Network Wiring
Cat6 and Cat6A drops, fiber backbone, racks and terminations for commercial and multi-family buildings across Nassau County, Queens and Long Island.
The cabling layer
Everything else in a modern building rides on this: the network, the cameras, the door readers, the access points and the phones.
Copper drops
Cat6 and Cat6A runs to workstations, access points, cameras, door controllers and equipment.
Fiber backbone
Fiber between floors, closets and buildings where distance or bandwidth rules out copper.
Racks and closets
Racks, patch panels, cable management and terminations laid out so the closet stays workable.
Testing and labeling
Runs tested and both ends labeled, with documentation that matches what was installed.
Low voltage plans
Plenty of buildings arrive with architectural drawings that show no network drops at all. The cable routes still have to exist, so somebody has to work them out. We do that on paper before the first hole is drilled.
Power over the same cable
Cameras, access points and door controllers all draw power over the cabling. That makes the switch and its power budget part of the cabling design rather than an afterthought.
Get it wrong and devices drop offline intermittently under load, which is one of the hardest faults to chase because it looks like a network problem and is not.
Cabling questions
The questions that decide what a cabling job costs and whether it lasts.
Cat6 or Cat6A?
Cat6 is enough for most workstations and general office use. Cat6A is worth the extra cost on runs feeding wireless access points, on long runs near the distance limit, and anywhere you are powering a device over the cable, because Cat6A handles the heat of higher power delivery better in a bundle. The honest answer for most buildings is Cat6A to the access points and cameras, Cat6 to the desks.
How many network drops should each room have?
More than you currently think you need, because the cost of a drop is almost entirely labor and the labor is already on site. Adding a second drop while the ceiling is open is cheap. Adding one later means a second mobilization to install a single cable, which is the most expensive cable anyone ever buys.
Can you cable an occupied building?
Yes, and most of our work is in occupied buildings. It changes the sequencing: we work riser by riser or floor by floor, schedule the disruptive runs around how the building is used, and leave the existing network live until the new cabling is ready to cut over.
Do you provide drawings, or do I need to supply them?
We produce them. Riser diagrams and wiring charts are part of the job. This matters most on buildings where the architectural plans show no network drops at all, which is common, and the cable routes have to be worked out from the building rather than read off a drawing. Producing that on paper first is far cheaper than resolving it in a ceiling.
What is a PoE budget and why does it matter?
Cameras, access points, door controllers and phones draw their power from the same cable that carries their data, and the switch supplying them has a fixed total it can deliver. Add enough devices and you exceed it, at which point equipment starts dropping offline in ways that look like a network fault. The budget is worked out at design time, not discovered after the last camera goes in.
Do you do the cabling and the devices, or just the cabling?
Both. Structured cabling is the layer cameras, access control, intercom and wireless all sit on. Having one contractor design the backbone and the systems that hang off it means the pathways, the closet and the power budget are worked out once rather than three times.