Business IT infrastructure planned around your space: reliable WiFi, internal fiber links, structured cabling, switches, gateways and network security. We survey the site, scope the equipment and installation, and document the setup for ongoing support.
On-site work in the Los Angeles area. Network installation is normally quoted as a fixed price once the site survey is done; our hourly range is USD $30–$100/hr depending on the type of work. Request a free initial analysis. Often installed alongside Construction Resource Management System on construction sites and restaurant order management in venues. This page is business networking — offices, restaurants, venues and construction sites. If it is a household rather than a business, see residential WiFi instead: same measurement-first approach, different scale and different equipment.
Illustrative mini-rack setup for a small office; not a completed installation photograph.
Six stages, delivered as one job. You can take the whole package or just the part you’re missing.
We walk the building and measure real signal strength, channel use and interference, floor by floor. The output is a heat map of your actual space showing where coverage holds, where it drops, and what is causing it — neighbouring networks, microwaves, metal racking, foil-backed insulation. Every design decision that follows comes from this data.
Coverage is the easy half. We size the network for simultaneous devices at your busiest hour, pick channel widths that do not fight each other, plan VLANs — separate virtual networks — for staff, guests, payment terminals and cameras, and specify switch port counts with room to grow. You get a documented design before anyone drills a hole.
Plan structured Ethernet cabling and internal fiber links between switches, racks or buildings where the distance and capacity call for them. We assess cable routes, compatible SFP/SFP+ optical modules and switch ports, then agree installation, labelling and testing. Fiber work depends on the site and agreed scope; specialist splicing is not included unless separately arranged.
Mounting, power over Ethernet (PoE, which powers each access point down its network cable), switch configuration, firewall rules and remote management set up and documented. Access points go where the survey says they should go, not where the cable happens to be easiest. We label every port and hand over the records.
Guest traffic on its own VLAN with client isolation, bandwidth limits so guests cannot starve your card terminals, and an optional branded captive portal. Your point-of-sale, office machines, cameras and storage stay on separate segments that guest devices cannot see or reach.
Networks drift. New neighbours appear on your channels, firmware ages, device counts grow. We monitor access point health and client counts, apply firmware updates in maintenance windows, and come back when something needs re-tuning rather than waiting for you to notice it is slow.
Offices, restaurants, warehouses and construction sites: network design around how your business works.
Dense device counts, video calls that cannot stutter, and a floor plan that changes every time someone reorganises the desks. We design for concurrency and leave headroom so adding a team does not mean re-cabling.
Card terminals and kitchen displays that need to stay connected through service, plus a guest network that can take a full dining room at once. Steel kitchens and brick walls make restaurant coverage far harder than the floor area suggests.
Temporary networks for site offices and cabins, coverage that follows the build as it moves, and hardware that survives dust and weather. Structured cabling for construction sites gets planned around the programme, not against it.
WiFi coverage and wired connections for scanners, workstations and business devices, planned around racking, work areas and building materials.
Four stages. You approve a fixed scope and a fixed price before any work starts.
We walk the building, measure signal and interference, note construction materials and cable routes, and ask what actually breaks today. You get a heat map and a written findings summary.
A documented design: access point positions, cable routes, switch and firewall specification, VLAN plan. Priced as a fixed quote so there are no mid-job surprises.
Cabling pulled, terminated, tested and labelled. Hardware mounted and configured. Work is zoned and scheduled around your trading or business hours so the whole site is never down at once.
We re-survey the finished install to prove coverage against the design, walk you through the management tools, and hand over labelled documentation, cable test results and admin credentials.
We scope network controls around the people, devices and services your business uses. Available features depend on the gateway, licensing and the access you need; configuration is agreed and verified before handover.
Configure approved DNS resolvers, internal name resolution where required and domain filtering supported by your equipment. Filtering has limitations and is one layer of network protection.
Define inbound and outbound traffic rules and separate staff, guest, payment, camera and storage devices using suitable network zones. Document the intended access and test it during handover.
Where a business service must be reachable externally, scope a separate network zone with restricted routes to internal systems. A business DMZ is not the consumer-router setting that exposes an entire device.
Configure supported remote-access or site-to-site VPN connections, user access and authentication requirements. Multi-factor authentication is included where supported and agreed; client devices and licensing are assessed first.
For household WiFi, NAS, DNS ad blocking and personal media servers, see Residential WiFi and home networking. Discuss business network security.
We specify hardware to fit the site and your budget rather than pushing one vendor. Where you already have equipment worth keeping, we design around it.
Ceiling and wall-mount units, indoor and outdoor, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E where the client devices can use it.
Managed PoE and PoE+ switches sized with spare ports, with VLAN and link aggregation support.
Business firewalls with VLAN routing, VPN for remote access, and content and threat filtering.
Copper and fibre to current standards, with patch panels, cabinets, trunking and labelling.
Controller or cloud-managed platforms so coverage, client counts and faults are visible remotely.
UPS protection for the rack so a brief outage does not take down payments or door access.
Service area: this is physical work — surveys, cabling, mounting and racking — so we deliver it in person in the Los Angeles area. Tell us where the building is and we will confirm coverage before quoting.
Network installation is physical work, and the cost is driven by things we can only establish on site: the size and construction of the building, how many access points the survey shows you need, how far the cable runs are, and whether existing cabling and switching can be reused. That is why the site survey comes first.
Once the survey is done, this kind of work is normally quoted as a fixed price rather than hourly, so you know the number before anyone starts pulling cable. Hardware is quoted separately from labour and is not included in our hourly rate. Where work is billed by the hour instead, our range is USD $30–$100 per hour depending on the type of work.
The initial consultation and scope estimate are free. On-site work is delivered in the Los Angeles area.
For anything beyond a single small room, yes. A wireless site survey measures how signal actually behaves in your building rather than how it should behave on paper. Concrete cores, metal shelving, mirrored glass, commercial fridges and stud walls all absorb or reflect 5 GHz and 6 GHz signal differently. The survey produces a heat map showing real coverage and interference, which is what tells us how many access points you need and exactly where they mount. Skipping it is the single most common reason a new WiFi install still has dead zones.
It depends far more on construction materials and simultaneous device count than on floor area. An open-plan office with plasterboard walls may cover 2,000 square feet from one well-placed access point, while a restaurant with a brick feature wall, a steel-lined kitchen and 120 guest phones at peak service can need three or four for the same footprint. We size from the survey data and from your real peak concurrency, not from a square-footage rule of thumb.
Mesh nodes relay traffic between each other over the air. How much throughput that costs depends on the hardware and the site: a system with a dedicated backhaul radio holds up far better than one sharing a single radio between backhaul and clients, and distance, interference and the number of hops all matter. Cabled access points sidestep the question, because each one has its own wired path back to the switch instead of relaying through its neighbours. That does not make capacity unlimited — every access point still shares the switch uplink and your internet connection — but it removes the per-hop relay penalty. Mesh is a reasonable answer where running cable is genuinely impractical. Where cable can be run, it usually earns its cost. We will tell you which one your site actually needs.
Yes. Most of our cabling work in occupied premises happens outside trading or business hours, in zones, so there is no day where the whole site is down. We pull and terminate cable for one area, test and cut it over, then move to the next. For restaurants that usually means overnight or between service; for offices, evenings or weekends. We agree the zone order and the cutover windows with you before any cable is pulled.
Yes, and we recommend it for every business install. Guest traffic goes on its own VLAN with client isolation turned on, so guest devices can reach the internet but cannot see your point-of-sale terminals, office computers, cameras or file storage. You can set a bandwidth ceiling for guests so a few large downloads do not slow down card payments, and apply a captive portal with your own branding and terms if you want one.
Cost is driven by the number of access points, how much cable has to be pulled, how difficult the cable routes are, and whether you need new switching and firewall hardware. A single-floor office with accessible ceiling voids is straightforward; a listed building, a live construction site or a restaurant with a finished ceiling takes considerably more labour. We quote a fixed price after the site survey rather than estimating blind, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Yes. We assess your gateway, licensing, client devices and required access, then scope supported DNS policies, firewall rules and remote-access or site-to-site VPN connections. Features, authentication and ongoing maintenance are agreed before setup.
A DMZ is a separate network zone used to isolate externally reachable services from internal business systems. We scope the access routes and firewall rules. It is not the consumer-router option that exposes a whole device to unsolicited internet traffic.
Email us with the building type, approximate size, and what breaks today and we’ll come back with next steps.
