Insights & Guides

Insights and guides

Field notes from the engineering bench. Written for the people who have to make the decision, not for a search engine.

Latest insights

CBR2 in bridge mode: what actually changes

Bridge mode is treated as a switch that turns the Comcast Business gateway into a plain modem. It is not that simple. What stays running, what breaks, and how to decide whether you need it at all.

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EPON or DOCSIS: choosing the right access for a site

Symmetry, contention, latency behavior under load, fault signatures and what belongs on the service order. A practical comparison for sites that genuinely have a choice.

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Writing an HOA network RFP that gets comparable bids

Boards routinely receive three proposals that price three different projects and then try to compare them on total. Here is how to specify the work so the numbers mean something.

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What a real IT SLA should say

Response target, restoration target, escalation path, measurement method and remedy. The five clauses that separate a service level agreement from a marketing page, with the questions to ask about each.

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Wireless design for clubhouses and event spaces

Why coverage that validates in an empty room fails during a two hundred person event, and how to design for the loaded case.

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A South Florida continuity checklist for storm season

What has to be true before June, covering power, connectivity, backups, remote access and the contact tree that works when email is down.

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A note on how we write these

These are written by the engineers doing the work, and we do not publish a piece that recommends something we would not do on a client site. Where a claim depends on a vendor or carrier product detail, we say so and point you at the source rather than asserting it as universal.

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If you are working through a design decision or trying to make sense of a carrier problem, we are happy to talk it through whether or not it turns into an engagement.