Cabled right.
Tested. Labeled.

Modern buildings live or die on their low-voltage backbone.

Cabling is the part of your building you don’t see and you don’t think about — until it doesn’t work. Then suddenly the conference room is flickering, the WiFi is unreliable in the corner office, the printer drops the print job halfway through, and IT spends a half-day chasing a phantom. Most of those phantoms trace back to bad cabling — under-spec wire, kinked runs, terminations done by someone in a hurry, or a labeling system that doesn’t match anything in the rack.

We design and install structured cabling that doesn’t do that. The cable is rated for the run length and the application. The terminations are punched, dressed, and tested. The patch panel mirrors the wall plates. Every cable is labeled at both ends. And every run gets certified by a cable certifier (Fluke DSX or equivalent) before we leave the site.

What we install

• Cat6 UTP — standard for office TI, supports 1 Gbps full 100m, 10 Gbps for shorter runs (~55m). Plenum or riser rated as required.
• Cat6A STP/UTP — full 10 Gbps to 100m, shielded for high-density and noisy environments. Standard for healthcare, server rooms, and high-density open-plan offices.
• Single-mode fiber — long-distance backbone, building-to-building, up to 10+ km. OS2 grade, LC or SC terminations.
• Multimode fiber — within-building backbone and rack uplinks. OM3 and OM4. Higher bandwidth, shorter distances.
• Coax — RG6 and RG11 for video distribution and CCTV where needed.

Termination, dressing, and labeling

The visible part of the install is what most customers grade us on. We do it like this:

• Patch panel work is dressed left-to-right or top-to-bottom, with all jacket lengths matched and Velcro-strapped (not zip-tied — Velcro lets us add cables later without re-cabling)
• Cable management on both sides of the rack — horizontal and vertical managers properly populated
• Labels printed on label printer (P-Touch or equivalent), not Sharpie
• Wall-plate labels match patch-panel labels match the as-built drawing

Testing — every cable, every run

Cable certification isn’t the same as cable verification. A continuity tester (the cheap blue plastic thing) tells you the wires are connected. A certifier tests for length, attenuation, NEXT, return loss, and category compliance — meaning it tells you whether the cable will actually carry the speed it’s rated for under the actual conditions of the install.

We certify-test every cable we install with a Fluke DSX or equivalent. If a run doesn’t pass, we re-pull or re-terminate before we leave. The test report — every run, every parameter — goes in your closeout file. That’s the difference between a cable plant that works on day one and one that’ll still work in five years when the load doubles.

What a typical project looks like

1. Walk-through with you and your IT/AV partner — count drops, sketch run paths, locate the rack
2. Quote — itemized by drop, by panel, by fiber run, by labor
3. Schedule — typically 1–3 days for a small office, 1–2 weeks for a larger TI
4. Pre-wire — we pull cable during the framing/rough-in phase if it’s a buildout, or after-hours if it’s an active office
5. Termination — patch panel, jacks, and any fiber terminations
6. Test — every cable certified, every run reported
7. Trim — wall plates, labels, dress the rack
8. Closeout — test report, cable schedule, as-built

Pricing

Cabling is usually quoted per drop with line items for fiber, AV, and special terminations:

• Standard Cat6 drop (jack at the wall, terminated patch panel, certified): $180–$300/drop in active office settings, $100–$220/drop on new construction
• Cat6A: add roughly 25–35% to the per-drop price
• Multimode fiber pair, terminated and tested: $325–$475/pair installed
• Patch panel and rack hardware: Quoted with the project
• Cable cleanup / re-labeling existing rack: Quoted per rack — usually 4–8 hours for a typical small-business rack