Structured cabling is the foundation every other technology investment depends on. Poor cabling limits throughput, causes intermittent problems that are nearly impossible to diagnose remotely, and restricts your ability to scale. Done right, it lasts 15 to 20 years and supports whatever technology you deploy on top of it.
Your users complain about slow speeds or dropped connections. You have replaced access points, checked the circuit, and upgraded the switch, but the problem persists. Intermittent cabling faults, improperly terminated runs, and cables exceeding maximum length specifications cause exactly these symptoms and are rarely diagnosed without a physical layer audit.
Your building was cabled five or ten years ago for a specific floor plan and headcount. The business has changed. Desks moved, spaces were repurposed, and new technology was added. The cabling infrastructure was never updated to match, and the result is a network built on workarounds.
If your cabling was installed without proper documentation and labeling, any change or repair becomes a significant project. You cannot safely add to a cabling plant you do not understand, and troubleshooting is far more expensive without a cable schedule to work from.
We audit your existing cabling plant, including physical inspection of cable runs, patch panels, and termination quality, and certification testing of individual runs against TIA/EIA standards. You receive a complete picture of what passes, what fails, and what is at risk of future failure, with a prioritized remediation plan.
We design and manage the installation of certified Cat6A copper and single-mode or multimode fiber infrastructure for new construction, tenant improvement projects, and upgrades to existing buildings. Every run is installed to TIA-568 standards, tested and certified, and documented with as-built drawings and cable schedules.
Data center cabling requires discipline that general commercial cabling does not demand. We design and install properly managed cable runs, patch panel architecture, and labeling systems that keep your data center organized, maintainable, and auditable as the environment evolves.
Organizations with multiple locations benefit from a standardized cabling specification across their portfolio. Consistent standards simplify procurement, reduce variation in quality between locations, and make adding new sites more predictable. We develop cabling standards and manage the specification for multi-site deployments.
Connecting buildings on a campus or across a property requires outside plant cabling design that accounts for conduit routing, burial depth, environmental protection, and connectivity to the in-building distribution system. We design and manage OSP installations from single building-to-building fiber runs to full campus ring architectures.
A properly documented cabling plant has as-built drawings, a complete cable schedule, panel labeling consistent with the schedule, and a change management process that keeps the documentation current. We deliver complete documentation packages with every installation and retrofit existing cabling plants with documentation where it does not exist.
Every run tested and certified to TIA/EIA standards with a manufacturer warranty on the channel performance.
Drawings, cable schedules, and panel labeling that make future changes, troubleshooting, and expansions significantly faster and less expensive.
Cat6A and current-generation fiber infrastructure that supports 10G to the desktop and high-density wireless without a revisit for the next 15 to 20 years.
A vendor selection and project management process that keeps cabling contractors to schedule and quality standard, with APA as your accountability layer throughout.
Cabling decisions are long-term commitments. Our network assessment gives you the baseline data to make sure the infrastructure you install will support where you are headed.
We audit your existing cabling infrastructure and tell you exactly what you have, what is at risk, and what a proper installation would require. No obligation.