FIELD NOTES

Working notes on networks and infrastructure

What we would tell you on the phone, written down: cabling costs, office moves, Wi-Fi segmentation, and backups that hold up.

Ship-to-install, explained

The install kit travels. The engineering does not have to. How pre-configured deployment works and who it fits.

A drop is the unit everything else hangs off. Here is what that number covers and why two quotes for the same office can differ.

Move week goes smoothly when the network work started six weeks earlier. Here is the order of operations.

Your guests, your door cameras, and your file server should not be neighbors on the same network.

Modern ransomware encrypts your backups before it announces itself. The design question is what survives that.