Structured cabling

Cat 6, Cat 6A and fibre cabling for Edmonton offices, warehouses, industrial sites and homes, with racks, labelling and certification testing.

The backbone behind everything

Phones, Wi-Fi, cameras, access control, point of sale and building controls all ride on the same cable plant. When it is messy or undocumented, every move or fix takes longer and costs more.

Structured cabling means a planned system: each outlet runs back to a patch panel in a known location, every cable is labelled at both ends, and the whole installation is tested and documented. It supports the devices you have today and the ones you add later.

Good cabling also makes moves easier. When a department relocates or a new tenant arrives, a documented plant lets you repatch at the rack instead of pulling new cable.

What we install

• Horizontal copper runs in Cat 6 or Cat 6A, matched to your speed and PoE needs.
• Fibre between telecom rooms, floors or buildings on a campus or yard.
• Wall- and floor-mount racks, patch panels, cable managers and shelves.
• Ceiling drops for Wi-Fi access points and cameras.
• Pathways: J-hooks, cable tray, sleeves and firestopping where cables pass through rated walls.

Because we are electricians, we also wire the telecom room itself: dedicated receptacles for the rack, a UPS, proper bonding, and enough lighting to work. Cooling and ventilation are planned so equipment does not cook in a closet.

Done to standard, proven by testing

We install to recognized industry cabling standards for bend radius, pulling tension, length and separation from power wiring. Shortcuts like stapling cable, crushing bundles with tight ties or running beside fluorescent ballasts show up as intermittent faults later.

Every run is certified with a cable tester and you receive the results. If a run fails, we fix and retest it before we leave.

Wi-Fi, cameras and PoE

More devices now take power from the network cable. Wi-Fi access points, cameras, phones, door readers and even some lighting run on Power over Ethernet. That makes the cable plant part of your power system, and it changes a few design choices.

• Higher PoE loads warm cable bundles, so we limit bundle sizes and choose cable rated for the load.
• Ceiling drops for access points are placed from a coverage plan, not just wherever a tile is easy to lift.
• Switches feeding PoE devices need adequate power budget and a UPS if those devices must stay up in an outage.

We coordinate with your IT provider or Wi-Fi designer so drops land where the equipment needs to go, and leave service loops so devices can be moved a short distance without new cable.

Renovations and older buildings

Many Edmonton offices have layers of abandoned cable above the ceiling. Removing what is not used reduces fire load, frees up pathway space and makes troubleshooting easier. We identify and remove dead cable as part of a tenant improvement or on its own.

A label on each end of every cable sounds basic, but it is the part most often skipped. We agree on a simple labelling scheme with you, apply it to jacks, patch panels and fibre enclosures, and mark the outlet numbers on the as-built floor plan. When someone needs to find a run in two years, it takes minutes instead of an afternoon of toning cables.

Cost depends on the number of drops, ceiling type and access, distance back to the rack, cable category, fibre requirements, and whether work must be done after hours to avoid disrupting staff.

We can also audit an existing cable plant and tell you what can be kept, relabelled and recertified.

Questions we hear