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Case file
Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6E enterprise wireless — Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist, Netgear — site-surveyed to the building's actual cell-edge SNR.
How we approach it
Wi-Fi planned for the building it serves
Reliable wireless comes from designing to the space and the way it is used, then keeping the network tuned as that use changes.
- Designed to the space and use
- Coverage intent is shaped around the building and its usage during design and BOQ / scope alignment. Detailed placement and topology stay in the design set, not on the page.
- Verified on handover
- Before handover the network is tested against the agreed intent, so what is delivered matches what was planned.
- Tuned as use grows
- Device counts and floor layouts shift over time; an AMC scope can include periodic wireless health checks and firmware upkeep so performance holds as the estate changes.
/ The discipline, in detail
How we approach enterprise wi-fi.
An access point's catalogue square-footage and a real building's coverage map are unrelated documents. We site-survey every deployment with Ekahau or AirMagnet, model the building's RF before the first AP is mounted, and place hardware to the actual cell-edge SNR your devices need. Roaming is tuned, channel plans are documented, and the controller is configured to the security and segmentation policy the organisation actually has — not the one pasted from a default template.
On record
Every enterprise wi-fi engagement is documented end-to-end — design, programming, commissioning, calibration — and handed over with the files our successors would need if we were never to return.
/ Where we deploy this
Active across 6 sectors.
Enterprise Wi-Fi is rarely a standalone brief — it sits inside a wider sector practice with its own codes, expectations and operating rhythm.
Hospitality
Guest experience, engineered.
Commercial & Corporate
Workplaces that begin meetings on time.
Education & Institutions
Schools, colleges and universities.
Healthcare
Hospitals where systems serve the patient.
Retail & Malls
Footfall, loyalty, footprint.
Industrial & Warehousing
Operations that don't take a day off.
/ Sister services
The rest of it.
A serious brief usually crosses two or three of these. Read across the discipline — we deliver them as one contract.
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EPABX & IP-PBX
Voice, routed cleanly.
Enterprise voice — IP-PBX, SIP trunking, hosted UC and hospitality PMS integrations — Grandstream, NEC, Cisco and Yeastar.0 - 02
IT & Networking
Wires the building's nervous system.
Structured cabling, Wi-Fi 7, switching, SD-WAN and data-centre networking — Cisco, HPE Aruba, Juniper, Netgear, CommScope.1 - 03
Structured Cabling
Backbones rated for the next quarter-century.
Cat6A, OS2 and OM4/OM5 structured cabling — designed to TIA-568, terminated to manufacturer warranty and labelled to a documented patch schedule.2 - 05
Network Security
Segmentation. Visibility. Recoverable backups.
Next-generation firewalls, segmentation, NAC, EDR, SIEM and backup — Fortinet, Palo Alto, Sophos, Check Point — designed to how breaches actually unfold, not how vendors describe them.3 - 06
Servers, Storage & Data Centre
On-prem, hybrid and edge — sized for actual workload.
Server and storage architecture — Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Pure, NetApp — for on-prem and hybrid workloads, including precision cooling, rack design and DR.4 - 07
Video Conferencing Infrastructure
Reliability beats features.
Cloud, on-prem and hybrid VC — Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco Webex — with bridges, gateways, recording and transcription infrastructure.5
/ Integration with
How enterprise wi-fi talks to the rest.
A serious deployment of this system rarely operates in isolation. The disciplines below most commonly share its cabling pathways, its controller logic, and its cause-and-effect matrix.
Structured Cabling
Backbones rated for the next quarter-century.
Cat6A, OS2 and OM4/OM5 structured cabling — designed to TIA-568, terminated to manufacturer warranty and labelled to a documented patch schedule.Network Security
Segmentation. Visibility. Recoverable backups.
Next-generation firewalls, segmentation, NAC, EDR, SIEM and backup — Fortinet, Palo Alto, Sophos, Check Point — designed to how breaches actually unfold, not how vendors describe them.
/ Read deeper
The engineering, in long form.
Each article below goes deeper than this service page can — a full walk-through of the engineering decisions, written by the team that delivers this work.
Engineering toolkit
Tools to scope this work
Calculators and reference checkers we use ourselves to sense-check the engineering before any drawings change hands.
- IT · Cabling
Structured Cabling Estimator
Estimate total structured-cabling length, patch panel count and IDF closet count against floor area and drop count. Panduit, CommScope, Belden, Legrand, Corning, Furukawa, R&M. Cat6, Cat6A, Cat7, Cat8 copper plus OM3, OM4, OS2 fibre. TIA-568 compliant.
7 brands · 7 categoriesOpen - ELV · Surveillance · Storage
CCTV Storage Retention Calculator
Multi-brand, codec-aware CCTV storage retention sizing across Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Hanwha, Bosch, Honeywell, CP Plus and Prama. Computes storage TB, HDD count plan, recorded bandwidth and an NVR/VMS class recommendation against camera count. Pairs with the CCTV Coverage Calculator.
8 brands · codec-awareOpen - IT · Wi-Fi · Coverage
Wi-Fi AP Planner
Floor area, ceiling height, wall material and client density in — AP count, PoE budget, switch ports and channel-plan advice out. Wi-Fi 6 / 6E / 7 with material-derated coverage and hex-packed cell preview.
APs · PoE · channelsOpen
/ Engineering concepts
Related engineering concepts
Concept
Power over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)
IEEE-standard delivery of low-voltage DC power over the same Cat-class cable as data. PoE+ delivers up to 30 W; PoE++ Type 3/4 up to 90 W — sufficient for IP cameras, APs, VOIP phones and small displays.
Concept
Cat6A Structured Cabling
Augmented Category 6 structured cabling — 10 Gbps over the full 100 m channel, rated for 25 years of service. The default for any new commercial or premium-residential cabling layer.
Concept
Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be)
Current generation of Wi-Fi. Adds 6 GHz band, MLO multi-link operation and 320 MHz channels. Default for new premium deployments where dense-room capacity is the binding constraint.
Concept
IEEE 802.3bt (PoE++)
Power-over-Ethernet at Type 3 (51 W device) and Type 4 (71.3 W device) classes — the power floor for Wi-Fi 7 APs, large PTZ cameras with heater, AV-over-IP encoders and small powered displays. Shared switch budget, per-port negotiation.
/ Used alongside
Commonly deployed alongside
Service
IT & Networking
Wires the building's nervous system.
Service
Structured Cabling
Backbones rated for the next quarter-century.
Sector
Education & Institutions
Schools, colleges and universities.
Sector
Commercial & Corporate
Workplaces that begin meetings on time.
Sector
Hospitality
Guest experience, engineered.
Sector
Healthcare
Hospitals where systems serve the patient.
/ Frequently asked
Enterprise Wi-Fi — what buyers ask first.
How many access points does a 10,000 sq ft office need?
A 10,000 sq ft office typically needs 6–14 access points depending on wall density, ceiling height and concurrent users — predicted in Ekahau and validated on site. Between 6 and 14 depending on the wall density, ceiling height and the number of concurrent users per square foot. We do not estimate — we predict in Ekahau against the floor plan and validate on site.
How do you design a Wi-Fi network properly?
Through a predictive site survey using the actual building floor plans, then a post-install validation survey with a calibrated Wi-Fi analyser at every workstation. Access points are sited to actual cell-edge SNR, not to access-point catalogue square-footage. This is the single most important design decision and the one most often shortcut.
How many access points does a typical office floor need?
Roughly 1 AP per 1,500–2,500 sqft for office work, 1 per 800–1,200 sqft for high-density (boardrooms, classrooms, conference auditoria), 1 per 3,000–4,000 sqft for warehouse-low-density. The site survey adjusts these benchmarks to the actual building.
Aruba, Cisco or Mist (Juniper) for enterprise Wi-Fi?
Aruba CX and Mist are the two strongest premium choices — Mist's AI-driven optimisation is genuinely useful for large deployments; Aruba's policy-driven security model is a defining strength on the platform. Cisco Catalyst is the safe enterprise default. We deploy all three.
Should guest Wi-Fi be on the same APs as staff Wi-Fi?
Yes, but on separate SSIDs with VLAN-isolated traffic and a captive portal for guest. Multi-SSID on the same AP hardware is standard; running separate AP hardware for guest is a waste of capital that does not improve security beyond what proper VLAN segmentation already delivers.
How do you handle Wi-Fi roaming for mobile-heavy environments?
Through 802.11k, 802.11r and 802.11v fast-roaming features tuned in the controller. For voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) and real-time location services, we tune RF coverage to ensure -65 dBm at every position so handoff doesn't drop calls. Hospital and warehouse deployments need this discipline; office deployments can be more relaxed.
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