Certified Once, Judged Daily
A structured cabling run gets tested to the TIA/ISO standard, certified, sealed behind the wall and rarely inspected again. The boardroom it feeds gets judged live, by every client and executive who walks in from week one. We build and certify office cabling and boardroom AV as one job for Johannesburg SMEs, part of the wider IT infrastructure services we deliver, so the cable plant behind the wall and the room in front of it are proven together before anyone joins a call.
Five Cabling Assumptions That Cost More To Fix Later
Most cabling quotes read the same regardless of the building, and that is usually the first sign nobody has actually planned the run for this site. A structured cabling job is either engineered per building or it is guessed, and the difference only shows up months after handover, once someone tries to add a device the network was never sized for. Cabling is only one layer of the physical build our IT infrastructure services cover end to end, but it is the layer that gets sealed behind a wall.
Any Cable Category Will Do The Job
It will not. We choose cable category per run against required bandwidth and distance, not one spec applied across the whole site: a comms room backbone often runs fibre while desk drops run copper.
Running Cable Is The Whole Job
Pulling cable without planning containment first is how runs end up draped over lighting ballasts and power cabling, the two things most likely to introduce interference on a line nobody has tested yet.
The Comms Room Is An Afterthought
A rack of unlabelled patch cords with no airflow plan is the most common cause of intermittent faults we get called back for. Patch panels, switches, power and cooling get designed together, not bolted on later.
A Visual Check Is The Same As Certification
Seeing a green light on a terminated point is not certification. Every run we hand over is tested for length, wire map, crosstalk and insertion loss, and produces a pass or fail result on paper.
A Screen And A Camera Are Enough For A Boardroom
Hardware powered on and paired is not the same as a boardroom that works. We configure and test every install against the platform your team already uses, on a live call, before anyone leaves site.
On their own, these are irritations. Together they mean call quality nobody can explain, a comms room that turns every new install into a troubleshooting job, and a boardroom that looks ready on paper but drops the first call that matters. As your infrastructure partner in Johannesburg, we design and test the cabling as one system, not a pile of runs pulled to spec sheet minimums, so the room works the day you hand it over.
Everything That's In Scope From The First Site Walk To Handover
A cabling and boardroom quote should tell you exactly what happens between the first site walk and the day the team leaves. This is what sits inside every project we scope, in the order it actually happens.
Point Count And Site Walk
Pathway And Containment Design
Trunking, ducting and ceiling void routes get planned in advance so every run stays within standard length limits and clear of power and lighting interference.
Cable Category Selection Per Run
Category is chosen against the bandwidth and distance each run actually needs, so a backbone link and a desk drop rarely share the same spec.
Comms Room And Rack Build
Certification Of Every Run
Each cable is tested on completion and produces a pass or fail result on paper, not a sample check across a handful of points.
AV CONFIGURATION AND HANDOVER
Camera, microphone and screen get configured against your meeting platform and tested on a live call before the project is signed off.
Ninety Metres And One Hundred Percent Tested, Every Run
The TIA/ISO structured cabling standard sets a hard ceiling on every copper run we install: a permanent link no longer than 90 metres, and a full channel, link plus patch cords, no longer than 100 metres. We treat that as a fixed engineering limit, not a guideline to work around.
The 90 Metre Ceiling
Every permanent link is measured and planned against this limit before anything is terminated, not checked afterwards when it’s too late to reroute.
Certified, Not Assumed
Each run is tested on a handheld certifier for length, wire map, crosstalk and insertion loss, producing a pass or fail result you keep on file.
The Comms Room Build
Backbone runs, patch panels and rack layout get built to the same standard as the desk points, tested and documented before the room is closed up.
The Live Call Test
The boardroom camera, microphone and screen get tested on a call over your own platform, with enterprise wireless network coverage checked.
What Actually Drives Cabling And Boardroom Pricing
Two projects with the same headcount can price very differently once cable category, comms room condition and boardroom AV tier are factored in. A fixed price only makes sense after a site walk confirms point count, cable runs and containment routes, which is why every quote starts there.
01 Data Point Count And Category
02 Comms Room And Rack Condition
03 Containment And Pathway Complexity
04 Boardroom AV Package Tier
Who This Is For
This fits office relocations, space fit outs and boardroom upgrades, including sites where the existing cabling was never documented and single rooms upgraded for hybrid meetings. It does not fit a one off faulty link, multi site network design (that's secure SD-WAN), or general Wi-Fi coverage on an already cabled network (that's enterprise wireless).
How it works
frequently asked questions
Will the boardroom system work with Teams or Zoom straight away?
Every boardroom camera, mic and screen is configured against your actual meeting platform and tested with a real call before we leave site, not just switched on and left.
What warranty applies if a cable run fails years from now?
Structured cabling installed by a certified installer typically carries a long manufacturer system warranty on top of the workmanship.
How many data points do we actually need for our office?
That comes from the site walk: every desk, AP, camera, printer and boardroom device gets counted and mapped to a data point before any cable is priced or pulled.
Do you handle the comms room and rack, or only the desk points?
Both. Patch panels, rack mounted switches, cable management, power and cooling get built or tidied as part of the same project, not treated as a separate job.
Your Cable Run Gets Certified Once, Your Boardroom Gets Judged Daily
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