A business network you will still understand in ten years.
Every cable labelled, every port on the drawing. So whoever opens the cabinet next knows what they are looking at.
Short answer
Installing a business network means designing and fitting everything that connects the devices in a building to each other and to the internet: the cabling, the patch cabinet, switches, access points and the firewall. Jevana does the design, installs and configures the equipment and delivers a drawing that matches what is hanging there. For pulling cables we work with an installer.
Who does what
The installer
Your own electrician, or a firm we know.
- Pulling cables from the cabinet to every workstation
- Fitting wall sockets and testing them
- Hanging the patch cabinet and giving it power
Us
Everything that has a setting.
- The design: how many connections, where, what speed
- Fitting and configuring switches, access points and firewall
- Separating networks and connecting the internet line
- The drawing and the list of ports
With a move there is one moment
An empty building is the only time you can pull cables without climbing over desks. What you do not install then rarely gets installed afterwards.
That is why we like to join early, while the layout of the workstations is still on paper. Two connections per workstation instead of one costs little during the build. An access point in the ceiling needs a cable that cannot be added later.
What you get at handover
- A drawing
- The floor plan with every connection, every access point and the cabinet.
- A port list
- Which port in the cabinet belongs to which wall socket, and what is connected to it.
- The configuration
- The settings of switches, wifi and firewall, stored and yours.
- A test report
- From the installer: every cable tested at the agreed speed.
Questions
What goes into a new business network?
A new network starts with counting: how many workstations, printers, access points, cameras and other devices, and where. That gives the number of cables and the size of the patch cabinet and switches. Then come the internet line, the firewall and the wifi. All of it is drawn before a cable is pulled, so the installer and we build the same thing.
Do you install the cabling yourselves?
Pulling cables through ceilings and walls we leave to an installer, because it is a trade of its own with its own tools. We make the design, mark where everything should go and do everything from the patch cabinet onwards: switches, wifi, firewall and the settings. If you have a regular electrician, we work with them.
Can the network be installed in one go with a move?
Yes, and that is the best moment. We design the network for the new building while the old one is still running, have the cabling installed during the refit and prepare the equipment for moving day. On that day only what has to move, moves. We order the internet line well ahead, because it has the longest lead time.
Can you map an existing network?
Yes. In many buildings the network has grown over the years and nobody knows which cable goes where. We go through the cabinet and the connections, label what is there and draw it out. A loose switch under a desk or a forgotten access point often turns up. That is the starting point for any improvement.
Goes well with
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Business wifi
Wifi that works in every room, with guests and devices kept apart from the office network.
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Firewall
A firewall installed, configured and kept up, with rules that someone knows the reason for.
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Internet backup over 4G
A second connection over the mobile network that takes over by itself when the fixed line fails.
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IT across Twente
Every town, and what we do in the region.
From the knowledge base
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Moving office: what do you arrange for IT, and when?
Internet has the longest lead time, and the cabling has to go in before the floors close. The order in which to arrange the IT for a move.
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Why is the wifi in the office slow?
The six causes we find most often, from a router in the meter cupboard to too many devices on one access point, and what to do about them.
Tell us what you run.
An introduction costs nothing. You talk straight away to one of the two people who will actually do the work.
or email info@jevana.systems