MSP in Setúbal: managed networks and IT for industry and logistics

The Setúbal Peninsula has heavy and processing industry, warehouses linked to the port, growing private clinics and offices that left Lisbon because of rents. In any of these businesses, downtime has an immediate price.

• Harsh conditions Dust, humidity, vibration and the cold of cold stores wear out cables that would last decades in an office.
• Moving terminals Barcode scanners across thousands of square metres have nothing in common with reading email in a meeting room.
• Dispatch with no margin If the system goes down, the load does not leave.
• No in-house IT Most of these companies depend entirely on an IT partner.
• Crossing the Tagus Twenty kilometres at rush hour can take forty minutes. The real arrival time has to be in the contract.

By measuring on the ground, never guessing from a floor plan. Ten thousand square metres of metal racking up to the ceiling reflect, absorb and hide the signal in ways no simulation software predicts.

We carry out the survey with the stock in place and at the working height of the terminals: the forklift's, not the standing engineer's. Access points are powered by PoE from the rack. The production network is isolated from the office network. And the transition between factory floor and office, where the signal usually disappears, is designed deliberately. Learn more about Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 for business.

The mistake we see most in Setúbal: treating a warehouse like a big office. In a warehouse, coverage and cable quality matter more than the bandwidth contracted from the operator.

Mechanical protection on exposed runs, closed trunking instead of open trays and racks kept away from forklift paths. Every outlet is certified and documented: in a factory, nobody can waste time tracing cables.

In cold stores we use materials designed for temperature swings and condensation, with routes that allow maintenance without switching off the refrigeration. Because a stopped network costs money by the hour, the works proceed in phases, on a schedule agreed with production. Details in structured cabling, switching and PoE.

• Clínica Lambert (Corroios): IT fully managed under IT Unlimited: structured network, business Wi-Fi, firewall and printing.
• Panike (warehouse): cabling and wireless network in a storage facility in the Algarve, with coverage designed for the logistics operation.

Overall, DataRoad brings 11 years in the market, 232 clients, 1321 devices and more than 138 Ubiquiti sites under management and the Top 5% SME certification (source: scoring.pt). More projects in DataRoad news and case studies.

Almost always, a network built from patches. A new switch when the neighbouring unit opened, another server for an application, backups set up by someone who has since left the company. Each element works in isolation; nobody can explain the whole, and it is the whole that fails. Often the office is well looked after and the operational area, where the money is made, has been left behind.

The audit takes place at your premises and ends with a written document:

1. Map of what exists: equipment, connections, network and rack in a diagram.
2. Timed restore: we restore real data rather than just checking that the backup ran.
3. Licences: it is common to find workstations paid for twice.
4. Risks in euros: ranked by financial impact, not theoretical technical severity.
5. Roadmap at 12, 24 and 36 months: with figures and dates, ready for the budget meeting.

Price and timescale fixed upfront. The report is yours: some clients have used it to renegotiate with their current provider. Full method in IT consulting for companies.

Barreiro, Beja, Faro and the Algarve, Oeiras, Cascais, Sintra and Porto, always from Alfragide and with support across the whole country.

We work only under IT Unlimited contracts. We do not take on one-off jobs or sell loose equipment, and we take responsibility for maintaining and managing the installed network. Request a no-commitment proposal.

More than 10 workstations · support contract · remote, on-site and phone support.

+351 211 459 950 * · sales@dataroad.pt. One Step Ahead of IT.

*Call to a Portuguese landline.