Networking and infrastructure

Why the wifi is bad

Usually because access points were added one at a time as complaints came in, rather than designed. Consumer gear in a business, overlapping channels, a single router covering a warehouse, and no way to see what is happening. The symptoms feel random. The causes rarely are.

What we build

• Designed coverage, with access points placed for the building rather than for the nearest plug point.
• Segmented networks, so guests, staff, payment devices and cameras are not sharing one flat network.
• Managed switching with the capacity for what you actually run.
• Failover to a second line where downtime has a real cost.
• Site-to-site connectivity so multiple branches behave like one network.
• Visibility, so when someone says the internet is slow we can see whether it is, and where.

Why UniFi

Ubiquiti UniFi gives business-grade capability with central management that we can monitor remotely, at a price that makes sense for a mid-sized South African business. It is the platform we standardise on, which means we know its behaviour well rather than learning a new system on your site.

Warehouses, factories and awkward buildings

Brick, steel racking, cold rooms and long distances all defeat office assumptions. We survey rather than guess, because a warehouse quoted from a floor plan is a warehouse with dead zones.

Multi-site

If you run several branches, the goal is one network you can see and manage as a whole. That means consistent configuration, central visibility, and no site quietly running something nobody documented.