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Data Cabling Installation

Structured cabling surveyed, designed, installed, tested and certified by iNREACH. Planned around your building and how you use it, from our Milton Keynes office.

About This Service

Done once, and done properly.

Every data cabling installation we carry out starts with a survey of the building. What’s already there, where it needs to reach, what has to run through it, and how we work without bringing your business to a halt.

From there we design the system, install it, test every run and hand over the certification. One company from the survey through to the documentation.

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We have been doing this since 1998, for small to medium sized businesses and organisations across the UK. Jobs range from a handful of new network cabling points through to cabling a building.

Doing this since

1998

Testing

Certified on completion

Warranty

25 years on the system

Pricing from

£60 per point

What is structured cabling?

What a structured cabling system is made of.

Structured cabling is a planned, standards-based cabling system for a whole building rather than a set of cables run one at a time. The alternative is what most offices end up with by accident: a cable added when someone moved desks, another when a printer arrived, a third when the meeting room was reconfigured. Each one made sense on the day, and together they become a cupboard nobody can trace, where finding a fault takes longer than fixing it.

A structured system replaces that with a single organised network: cables run to a consistent standard, terminated at patch panels, labelled, documented and tested. Everything in the building connects back through it, whether that is computers, phones, wireless access points, door entry, CCTV or printers.

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The comms room

Where it all comes back to: the cabinet holding your patch panels, switches and the connection into the building. It’s the part that decides whether anyone can work out what’s plugged into what.

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The comms room

Where it all comes back to: the cabinet holding your patch panels, switches and the connection into the building. It’s the part that decides whether anyone can work out what’s plugged into what.

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Backbone cabling

The links between floors or between buildings on the same site, carrying everything between comms rooms.

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Backbone cabling

The links between floors or between buildings on the same site, carrying everything between comms rooms.

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Horizontal cabling

The runs from the comms room out to each floor, through ceilings, trunking and risers.

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Horizontal cabling

The runs from the comms room out to each floor, through ceilings, trunking and risers.

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Outlets at the desk

The faceplates people actually plug into, positioned around how the space is used rather than where the cable happened to reach.

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Outlets at the desk

The faceplates people actually plug into, positioned around how the space is used rather than where the cable happened to reach.

The standards we cable to

The standards we cable to.

Copper, fibre, and getting the grade right for your building.

Our data cabling installation work covers the full range of copper, from Cat 5e through Cat 6 and Cat 6a to Cat 7 and Cat 8, alongside fibre optic cabling where the distances or the speeds call for it. Most offices are well served by Cat 6 or Cat 6a. Fibre comes into its own on backbone runs between floors or between buildings, and on anything where copper simply can’t carry the distance. Higher grades of copper are worth paying for in some buildings and money wasted in others. Which is which depends on what the building carries now and what you’ll want running through it in five years. We’ll tell you where the extra cost earns its place and where it doesn’t.

Cabling is only ever carried out by cabling-certified installers, and every installation is tested and certified on completion. You get documented proof that each run performs to the standard it was specified at, rather than someone’s word that it should. That matters more than it sounds. When something goes wrong on a network later, the first question is always whether the cabling is sound. With a certified installation that’s already answered, and you can get on with finding the actual fault. It also comes with a 25 year manufacturer warranty on the installed system, which is longer than most businesses stay in the same building.

Moving premises, or fitting out a new floor? Arrange a site survey and we’ll tell you what it needs.

What data cabling installation costs

What data cabling installation costs.

What drives the price, and how we quote it.

The largest factor by some distance, and the first thing we count.

The total length of cabling needed to reach everywhere it has to reach, which depends as much on the route as the distance.

An open-plan office with accessible ceilings is a different job from an older building where every run has to be worked around what is already there.

Cabling is quoted per data point, which is how the whole industry prices it, and it makes comparing quotes straightforward. Ours start from £60 per point, and where a job is larger the per-point price comes down. Once we have been round the site and understand what you need, you get a complete list of works and prices. Itemised, so you can see what you’re paying for and compare it properly against anything else you’ve been quoted.

When the work happens matters as much as how

Cabling is disruptive.

Ceilings come down, floors come up, and people end up working around a ladder. So the first thing we agree on is timing.

Ideally, that means a quiet building: an office move, a refit, a floor nobody has occupied yet, or simply out of hours. Where you can plan cabling into a change you were making anyway, it barely registers.

It isn’t always that neat. Where you have to stay open, we work around you and take it a section at a time, so only part of a floor is affected at once. And some buildings decide the timing for us. Schools are the clearest example: cabling waits for half terms and holidays rather than going on around lessons, and everyone attending the site is DBS checked. We do a good deal of work for schools, and for local government and charities, where the same principle applies. Fit the work around the building, not the other way round.

Cabling is the part everything else sits on

It is the one part of your IT nobody thinks about, and everything depends on.

Network cabling is easy to treat as a commodity, right up until it’s the reason your phones, your Wi-Fi and your card machine all stop at once.

Because we also supply and support the things that run over it, we specify the cabling around what you’re actually going to put through it rather than to a generic standard. That continues after the installation. When something isn’t right, you call us and our team answers centrally from our Milton Keynes office, with nothing passed to a third party.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about data cabling installation.

A planned, standards-based cabling system covering a whole building, rather than individual cables run as they are needed. It’s a system that brings everything back to a central comms room through labelled, tested and documented runs, so the network can be traced, extended and fault-found without guesswork.

Point-to-point cabling connects one device to another as the need arises. That’s quick at the time and difficult to manage later. Structured cabling is designed for the building as a whole, so adding a desk or moving a team is a patching change rather than a new cable run.

The full range of copper, from Cat 5e through Cat 6 and Cat 6a to Cat 7 and Cat 8, plus fibre optic cabling. Which is right depends on the distances involved, the speeds you need and what you’ll be running in a few years. We’ll explain the difference in plain terms and specify accordingly.

Yes, alongside copper. Fibre earns its place on backbone runs between floors or buildings, and anywhere the distance or the speed is beyond what copper will carry. Plenty of installations use both, with fibre on the backbone and copper out to the desks.

Cabling is priced per data point, and ours start from £60 per point. Larger jobs come down from there, because the setup and travel are spread across more outlets. The number of points, the total length of cable and the building itself are what move the figure, which is why we survey before quoting.

Yes. Every installation is tested and certified on completion, and you receive the documentation. That gives you proof each run performs to the standard it was specified at, and the installed system carries a 25 year manufacturer warranty.

We can, though cabling is disruptive enough that most installations are better done when a building is quiet: a move, a refit, or out of hours. Where you need to stay open, we take it a section at a time so only part of the floor is affected. In schools, work is scheduled for half terms and holidays, and anyone attending the site is DBS checked.

Our clients are predominantly small to medium sized businesses and organisations, including education, local government and charities, and installations range from a handful of new points through to cabling a building. Tell us what the site is and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.

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