A badly built network costs you for ten years.

• A network that stops being a topic: Sized for expected growth and for a service life of around 15 years.
• Works without shutting the office: Phased zone by zone, with anything noisy done out of hours.
• Proof in writing: Certification of every point, a numbered floor plan and a documented rack, handed over with the works.
• One accountable partner after handover: DataRoad maintains and manages the installed network under the IT Unlimited contract.

A network with badly terminated cables does not fail outright: it fails in pieces, at peak hours, and swallows whole mornings in diagnoses that find nothing. A poorly crimped connector passes the green-light test and only gives itself away under real load: IP cameras, PoE access points, the entire team on a video call through the same switch.

Certifying means measuring attenuation, crosstalk and length on every pair, and comparing the values against the limits of the category contracted. Without that document, network quality is a belief, not a fact. At DataRoad, certification is always included in the price of the works.

• Cat6A copper points: For workstations, printers, access points and cameras; two per workstation.
• Fibre backbone: Linking racks, floors and buildings, with splice enclosures and optical testing.
• Rack: Correctly sized, ventilated and lockable, with patch panels, cable managers and UPS.
• Managed PoE switches: Chosen for the load they will carry, not for today's lowest price; they power access points, cameras and phones.
• Trunking and cable trays: With the least building work possible.
• IP CCTV: Cameras on the same cabling.
• Point-to-point wireless links: For warehouses, industrial units or distant buildings where cable cannot reach.

Once copper and fibre are in place, the wireless layer follows: business Wi-Fi 6 and 7 with central management, a separate guest network and seamless roaming.

As a rule we propose Cat6A for copper and fibre for the backbone. In industrial or very noisy environments, Cat7. We install and certify all three.

1. Site visit: space, floor plans and a count of points per zone. For Wi-Fi we carry out an on-site coverage survey, with a heat map and access point positions.
2. Fixed design: routes, quantities and schedule approved by you, at a fixed price before a single cable is pulled.
3. Installation: cable pulling, termination and rack assembly in phases; anything noisy is done out of hours.
4. Certification and records: every outlet measured, report delivered and floor plan numbered. It is written down what connects to each port and why.
5. Ongoing management: the network joins the IT Unlimited contract and is looked after by the same team that installed it.

The price is fixed and agreed in the design, after a no-commitment site visit. It depends on five factors:

• Number of points: Two per workstation, plus access points, cameras and printers.
• Distances and routes: Metres of cable, trunking, cable trays and crossings between areas.
• Category and backbone: Cat6, Cat6A or Cat7, and the fibre runs between racks, floors or buildings.
• Type of building: New build, where we work alongside the contractor, or an occupied building with phased works.
• Rack and active equipment: Rack size, UPS and managed PoE switches.

• 456 certified points: In public administration buildings.
• 6000 metres of cable: Installed in a datacentre.
• More than 138 sites and 1321 Ubiquiti devices managed: Networks we look after every day.
• 11 years, 232 clients: Top 5% SME (source: scoring.pt) and 5.0 from 52 Google reviews.
• Security: In 11 years, DataRoad has never suffered a security incident.

DataRoad. We do not sell loose equipment or take on one-off jobs. The installed infrastructure is maintained and managed under the IT Unlimited contract, with remote, on-site and telephone support. If you need unlimited on-site support, the right plan is IT Unlimited Premium.

The same team looks after the rest of the infrastructure: managed firewalls and cybersecurity, servers, cloud and backups, IP telephony and CCTV. Moving premises? See how we build the network for a new office.

Unlabelled cables turn every fault into a treasure hunt. We deliver a tidy rack, every point identified and measurements in writing.

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

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