Cabling Network · Fibre · Low voltage

Cabling done once. Done right.

Structured cabling, fibre and networking for new builds and existing buildings. Neat racks, every drop labelled, and every run tested with a Fluke CableIQ before we leave.

Fluke tested, every drop Copper, fibre and fusion splicing One team from rough-in to patching
Switch stack and patch panels in a floor rack, with short colour-coded patch cords and labelled fibre uplinks
Drop 2-114 PASSCat6 · 41.2 m · Fluke CableIQ
Fibre backboneFusion spliced, tested end to end
What we do

Everything that runs through the walls.

One drop or a whole building. New construction or a comms room that needs rescuing. We pull it, terminate it, mount it, patch it and test it.

  • 01

    Structured cabling

    Data drops for desks, phones, cameras, access points and doors. Single runs, a few adds, or every wall in the building.

    Cat6 · data · voice · low voltage
  • 02

    Fibre and fusion splicing

    Fibre backbones between floors, comms rooms and buildings. We fusion splice and terminate in house, then test the link end to end.

    Backbone · splicing · termination
  • 03

    Conduit and outdoor runs

    Conduit where the cable needs protecting, and outdoor-rated cable out to gates, parking lot cameras, sheds and outbuildings.

    Conduit · outdoor · exposed runs
  • 04

    Building to building

    Got a second building? We link them with fibre or a point-to-point wireless bridge, so both sites share one network without trenching where you don't have to.

    Point to point · fibre · wireless bridgeWireless links
  • 05

    Racks, mounting and patching

    Wall and floor racks installed, patch panels, cable management, UPS and gear mounted properly. Short patch cords, colour coded, no spaghetti.

    Rack installs · gear mounting · patching
  • 06

    Networking

    Firewalls, routers and switches set up for the way you work, with cameras, phones and guests kept on their own networks.

    Switching · routing · firewalls
  • 07

    Wi-Fi and heat mapping

    Dead spots? Send us a floor plan. We heat map the space, show you real signal strength, and place access points where they actually help.

    Managed Wi-Fi · site surveysWiFi and heat mapping
  • 08

    Automation and low voltage

    The cabling behind doors, readers, intercoms, speakers, sensors and building automation, pulled by the same people who install the systems.

    Access · intercom · PA · sensors
  • 09

    Testing and audits

    Every drop we install is tested with a Fluke CableIQ. We'll test cabling someone else installed too, so you know you got what you paid for.

    Fluke CableIQ · third-party audits
Before and after

We got called in after someone else.

This comms room was another installer's work: gear stacked on a filing shelf, cords hanging from the ceiling, nothing labelled. Here's what it looked like when we left.

Before: network switch, recorder and UPS stacked on a filing shelf with a tangle of loose patch cords
Before
Another installer's comms room, as we found it.
After: the same equipment in a 15U rack, two Digital Watchdog recorders on top, a patch panel with short white patch cords, switch, server and rack UPS
After · IP Lynx
Same room. Everything in one 15U rack.
Gear stacked on a shelfEverything mounted in a 15U rack
Loose cords from the ceilingTerminated on a patch panel
Long, tangled patch cordsShort cords, dressed and bundled
UPS sitting on the shelfRack UPS and both recorders mounted
Another one

From a crowded utility room to a proper rack.

Recorder, switches and cable spread across the wall and the floor. Seven weeks later it was all in one open-frame rack, patched and dressed, with the monitor on top.

Before: utility room with a small wall-mounted switch panel, loose cable bundles on the walls and a monitor on the floor
Before
Gear on the wall and the floor, cable hanging loose.
After: open-frame rack with the video recorder, patch panels, switches, firewall and UPS, monitor on top
After · IP Lynx
Recorder, patch panels, switches, firewall and UPS in one rack.
One more

Off the shelf and off the floor.

Modem, router and switches on a wall shelf, with a pile of patch cords on the floor underneath. Now it all lives in one floor rack.

Gear on a wall shelfFirewall and switches in a floor rack
Patch cords piled on the floorPatch panel, short cords, bundled
Power bricks on the shelfUPS in the bottom of the rack
Before: modem, router and switches on a wooden wall shelf, with a tangle of blue and white patch cords running down the wall and piled on the floor
Before
On a shelf, cords on the floor.
After: black floor rack with two switches, a firewall, the router on a shelf, a patch panel with short white patch cords and a UPS at the bottom
After · IP Lynx
One rack, patched and dressed.
A wall-mounted BIX cross-connect field with blue designation strips and hundreds of jumper wires, beside an older business phone system cabinet
BIX fieldStill in service, still supported
A BIX field next to an older phone system. Real site, details blurred.
Old cabling too

BIX fields, Cat3 and the wiring nobody wrote down.

Not every building needs new cable, and not every job starts from scratch. We work on what's already in the walls. We've done telecom since the 1990s, so old phone wiring doesn't scare us.

Trace

Find out what goes where

We tone out and trace existing runs before anything gets moved, cut or reused.

Label

Label it and write it down

Pairs, blocks and patch panels labelled, with a record you keep, so the next change is quick.

Test

Know what it can carry

We test the old runs and tell you plainly what's still good and what isn't.

Decide

Reuse it or replace it

Sound cable stays in service. What has to go gets replaced, and we tell you why.

BIXCat3Old phone wiringTidy-upsDocumentation
Problem solving

The team other trades call when they're stuck.

Some jobs don't belong to one trade. When something won't talk to something else and nobody on site can work out why, we get the call. Sometimes from the owner, sometimes from another contractor.

Crowded comms room with two older phone system cabinets, punch-down blocks on a plywood backboard and a rack buried in loose patch cordsInherited
Phone system, blocks and a rack nobody had mapped
Switches and patch panels on shelves with long blue, yellow and white patch cords hanging in a tangleInherited
Which cord goes where?
Weathered old telephone terminal cabinet with punch-down blocks and loose jumper wiresInherited
Old phone wiring in a terminal box
Floor rack hidden behind hundreds of loose patch cords hanging to the floorInherited
Patch cords to the floor

Not our workRooms we were called in to troubleshoot. Somebody has to figure out what's what, and that's usually us.

Accessible doors

Door operator relays and wiring

Automatic door companies call us when they can't sort out the relay automation and wiring between the operator, the push buttons and the access control.

Access control
Gates

Gate openers

Gate operators that need to be wired into the access control or the intercom, and made to behave.

Intercoms
Sound

Sound and paging systems

PA, paging and music that doesn't work the way it should. We trace it and sort it out.

PA and sound
Old cabling

BIX, Cat3 and old phone wiring

The wiring nobody documented. We trace it, label it and keep what's still good.

Old cabling

Stuck on something nobody can figure out?Send us a few photos and tell us what it should do. We'll tell you what we see.

Building or renovating

We'll do the whole low-voltage scope.

Bring us in at the drawings and we'll handle everything low voltage, start to finish. One crew and one schedule to coordinate with your contractor, instead of four trades.

1Walls open

Rough-in

We plan the drops and pathways with you, then pull cable while the walls are open.

  • Drop layout for data, phones, cameras, doors and Wi-Fi
  • Conduit, sleeves and pathways
  • Copper and fibre pulled to the comms room
2Walls closed

Trim-out and rack

Jacks, plates and the comms room go in. This is where neat work shows.

  • Rack installed, patch panels terminated
  • Switches, firewall, recorders and UPS mounted
  • Patched, dressed and labelled at both ends
3Before you move in

Test and turn up

Nothing gets handed over untested. Then we bring the network and your systems online.

  • Every drop tested on a Fluke CableIQ
  • Network, Wi-Fi and firewall configured
  • Phones, cameras and doors brought online
What runs on it

The cable is the start, not the end.

We install the systems that run on the cable too. One accountable partner, so there's no finger-pointing between the cabler and the vendors.

Fluke CableIQ

Tested, not assumed.

A cable can look perfect and still drop your cameras. So every run we install goes on a Fluke CableIQ before we call it done. If it fails, we fix it on the spot.

  • Wiremap and length · every pair on the right pin, every run in spec
  • Speed qualification · the drop carries the network speed it's meant to
  • Labelled at both ends · jack and patch panel match, so moves are easy
  • Existing cabling audits · we'll test what someone else installed
Example test recordFluke CableIQ
DropLengthWiremap · speedResult
2-10138.2 mok · 1 GbPASS
2-10239.0 mok · 1 GbPASS
2-10344.7 msplit pairFAIL
2-10344.6 mre-terminated · ok · 1 GbPASS
2-10451.3 mok · 1 GbPASS
CAM-0772.9 mok · 1 GbPASS
AP-0333.5 mok · 10 GbPASS
Illustration of the test we run on each drop. Not from a specific site.
Our work

Racks we've built.

Real comms rooms from IP Lynx jobs. Small wall racks and full rooms get the same care.

Side by side

Two racks, one room.

Same comms room, two racks. Ours is the voice rack on the right.

  • Every patch cord routed through the cable managers
  • Panels labelled, so anyone can find a port
  • One cord colour for the system, so it's obvious what belongs to it
Two floor racks side by side in a comms room. On the right, the IP Lynx voice rack: orange patch cords routed through horizontal cable managers and labelled patch panels
Ours
Floor rack with a patch panel and switch patched in groups of yellow, grey, blue, red and white patch cords
Colour coded
Colour-coded patching

Know what a cord is for at a glance.

We colour code patch cords by what they do. Each colour is a category, so uplinks, desk drops, access points and security gear never get mixed up, and the next move or troubleshooting call is quicker.

UplinksData dropsAccess points and Wi-FiSecurityAnd more
Floor rack with fibre patch panel, firewall, core switches, colour-coded patching and rack UPS units
Floor rackFibre, firewall, switching, patching and UPS
Wall-mount rack with glass door, orange patch cords and neatly bundled blue and grey horizontal cabling
Wall-mount rackBundled horizontal runs, short patch cords
Row of three enclosed server cabinets in a comms room
Comms roomThree enclosed cabinets, raised floor
Wall cabinet with labelled patch panel, red patch cords, firewall, switch, video recorder and UPS, above a backboard with a power supply and labelled cable runs
Wall cabinetNetwork, recorder, UPS and labelled runs
Building, moving or cleaning up?

Send us the floor plan. We'll handle the rest.

We'll walk the site and quote the whole job: cable, fibre, racks, network and the systems that run on it. One partner from the first pull to the last patch cord.

IP Lynx Inc. · Ontario, Canada