Independent network engineering
35 years
on the wire
Networking and network security for businesses of every size — from a five-node office to a ten-thousand-node campus.
Design, deployment, hardening and day-two support. You work directly with the engineer doing the work — no account layer, no ticket queue, nobody learning on your network.
At a glance
Aruba · Juniper · Palo Alto · Fortinet · Windows Server · Linux · Veeam
Capabilities
Everything the
network touches
Four practices, one engineer accountable for all of them. Take the whole thing, or the piece you're stuck on.
01
Design & deployment
Switching, routing and wireless built to a plan you can read, then cut over without a surprise on Monday morning.
- Campus & branch LAN
- Wi-Fi surveys & tuning
- VLANs, routing, QoS
- Staged migrations & cutovers
02
Network security
Firewalls configured deliberately, segments that actually contain a breach, and a rule base someone can still explain in a year.
- Next-generation firewall builds
- Segmentation & least privilege
- VPN & remote access
- Policy & rule-base review
03
Servers & systems
The infrastructure sitting behind the network — identity, storage, and the backups you hope never to need.
- Windows Server & Active Directory
- Linux services & hardening
- Virtualisation & storage
- Veeam backup & recovery testing
04
Support & monitoring
Someone watching the graphs before the phone rings, and documentation your next hire can pick up cold.
- Monitoring & alerting
- Escalation for in-house teams
- As-built documentation
- Capacity & refresh planning
Scale
Five nodes or ten thousand
The scale changes the plan, not the standard of the work. Roughly what an engagement looks like at each end:
5–50
Nodes · small business
One office, one firewall, Wi-Fi that has to reach every corner. Usually a clean-up of what grew organically, then a network you stop thinking about. Priced as a project; supported by the hour or on retainer.
50–1,000
Nodes · mid-size & multi-site
Several sites, a real firewall policy, VLANs that mean something, and an IT manager who needs a peer rather than a salesperson. Design documents, staged cutovers, one standard applied the same way at every location.
1k–10k
Nodes · enterprise & campus
Core and distribution, redundancy that has actually been tested, change windows measured in minutes. Often alongside an in-house team as senior capacity for a refresh, a migration or a security review.
Stack
Kit we know cold
Vendor-neutral by habit: the right box for the room, not the one with the best margin.
Switching & wireless
Aruba
Juniper
Firewalls & security
Palo Alto
Fortinet
Servers & systems
Windows Server
Linux
Backup & recovery
Veeam
Certified now
Juniper · Veeam
Certified previously
VMware · Cisco · Extreme · Aruba
Not on the list? Ask. Thirty-five years covers a lot of hardware, and most of it still racks up the same way.
How we work
Four steps, no mystery
01
Look at what's there
A walk of the racks and the closets, a read of the configs, and a conversation with whoever gets the call when it breaks. You get the findings in writing whether or not you hire us for the fix.
02
Agree the design
Topology, addressing, policy and bill of materials — priced before anything is ordered. Trade-offs explained in plain terms, so the budget decision stays yours.
03
Build and cut over
Staged, tested, and scheduled around your business — nights and weekends where that's what it takes. Every change has a rollback before it is made.
04
Hand over and watch it
As-built documentation, credentials in your hands, monitoring in place. Keep us on retainer, or keep the drawings and run it yourself — both are a fine outcome.
Who we work with
Five kinds of
phone call
Owners and office managers
No IT staff, and the network has to just work. We become the person you call.
IT managers
You own the outcome and need a senior pair of hands for the parts that can't go wrong.
Network & security teams
Extra depth for a refresh, a migration or a rule-base review, without a year of onboarding.
Multi-site operations leads
One standard rolled out across every location, so site twelve behaves like site one.
Other MSPs
Overflow and escalation on networking and firewalls, white-labelled, no poaching.
Contact
Tell us what
the network is doing
A short description is enough to start. You'll get a straight answer about whether this is something we should take on — and if it isn't, who to call instead.
Typical response
Same business day
Emergencies
Say so in the first line — those jump the queue
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