Guides
Practical guides for offices, landlords and facilities managers who are planning cabling, Wi-Fi, comms rooms or IT support. Each one cites its sources and links to the service it relates to.
Guides
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Each guide lists the pages its facts come from at the end.
Cat6 vs Cat6A
Which copper cabling to install, and how 10 gigabit, Wi-Fi and PoE affect the choice.
What is structured cabling?
The subsystems of a cabling system, testing, labelling and what to ask a contractor.
Wi-Fi survey explained
The types of survey, what each one measures and what to ask for.
Comms room requirements
Location, space, power, cooling, security and records for a comms room.
What does an IT maintenance contract include?
Scope, response times, security tasks, reporting and exit terms.
Office move IT checklist
What to do about connectivity, cabling, backups, equipment and old devices before, during and after a move.
How we write these guides
The guides are written for people who buy, manage or look after a business building and its network: office managers, landlords, facilities managers and owners of small businesses. They assume no technical background and explain terms as they appear.
Every fact in a guide comes from a standards body, a regulator, a government page or a manufacturer, and each guide ends with the list of pages used. Where a source is a manufacturer's own statement, the guide says so.
The guides give general information and are not a design for your building. For help with a particular site, see our services or get a quote.
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