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📍 Chicago, IL
🏢 Corporate office
2-floor deployment
Multi-floor office consolidation with full structured cabling refresh, fiber backbone and IDF room rebuild
A Chicago-based company consolidating two office locations into a single commercial facility needed new structured cabling standards across both floors while maintaining uninterrupted operations throughout the transition. The existing infrastructure — a mix of Cat5e and Cat6 from previous tenants, unlabeled patch panels and no as-built documentation — made day-to-day network support difficult and expansion planning impossible without starting over.
Challenge
Infrastructure inconsistency across both floors
Mixed cable categories (Cat5e and Cat6) from multiple prior tenants, unlabeled patch panels, no as-built documentation, and an IDF room layout that couldn't support the consolidated business's device count or growth plans.
Approach
Phased deployment around active operations
Cat6A structured cabling throughout both floors, OM4 fiber backbone between IDF rooms, complete patch panel rebuild with organized rack layout — delivered in phased evening and weekend windows to avoid disrupting operations during the transition.
Outcome
Cleaner, documented infrastructure the IT team can manage
Organized IDF rooms with labeled patch panels, complete as-built documentation, 10G-ready Cat6A cabling throughout and fiber backbone that supports future switch upgrades — all without a single workday of downtime during installation.
2
Floors — full Cat6A deployment
145
Network drops installed
OM4
Fiber backbone between IDF rooms
0
Workdays of operational downtime
100%
Fluke-certified — all copper runs
Cat6A structured cabling — 2 floors
OM4 fiber backbone between IDF rooms
Patch panel rebuild & rack organization
Conference room AV and wireless AP cabling
Fluke channel testing — all runs
Full as-built documentation delivered