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1)       Ensure all the staff are directly employed

This is very important as it means customers get high levels of recognition and individual service at every level. Directly employed engineers know their sites and their individual needs and it means the cabling company is afforded a high level of loyalty and therefore customer service from all their employees.

2)       Dedicated project managers

This ensures that every client is provided with an easy point of contact, continuity and ownership. Always check how senior the project managers are. If a company is reputable, they will assign senior managers to take care of all projects, not just the largest ones.

3)       Industry accreditations

Before you let anyone start work on your cabling, ensure they have the highest level of ISO, H&S and Building Industry Accreditations possible. This means that their procedures are sound and robust, and they operate safely and securely and all customers are safe in the knowledge they are a very well run and professional data cabling company

4)       Certified and warranted installs for all projects with branded products

Avoid companies that promote the use of hybrid products.  Quite often they do not interface well together, and although the price is often lower, the quality of the install will also be. Using one type of branded product, the customer is safe in the knowledge that his new system is warranted for the product lifetime.

5)       Proven track record

With so many companies to choose from, it can be daunting, but look for historical case studies and project examples. Look for cabling companies that can demonstrate similar sized projects to yours. A long track record of delivering success is essential from any company you would want to employ.

6)       Do they offer brand impartiality

There are many cabling brands that you can pick from – Krone, Brand Rex, Siemon, Hellerman Tyton, Molex etc). So ensure you choose a structured cabling company that can supply various leading brands. This benefits the customer as you have both choice and can also select the product which meets your needs commercially.

A businesses networking structure is something individual, i.e., not all businesses have the equivalent needs when it comes to networking. This article will give you some insight of what the right type of installation supplier must do. You should look for a organisation that has been installing cabling for a while and who have worked [...]

Business dependency on IT systems has never been greater, so when things go wrong the impact can be catastrophic. Whether it’s the CEO waiting for information as part of an acquisition negotiation, or the thousands of transactions that flow through the corporate website, any glitch in the IT infrastructure can wreak havoc with productivity, revenue [...]

Business dependency on IT systems has never been bigger, so when things go wrong the affect can be catastrophic.The method of designing and architecting a dependable, comprehensive, cost effective continuous availability and disaster recovery solution can only begin by understanding  your application uptime and data recovery requirements. That is to say, what is your stated [...]

This silo based methodology almost always results in the use of several different availability / DR technologies from an array of vendors, with noticably different designs, capabilities and limited/no integration points. For example, an online web ordering system might deploy network load balancing for front end web servers, some form of data mirroring or clustering [...]