Networking
Everything else runs on it
Your cameras, your access control, your alarm reporting, your point of sale and your phones all sit on the same network. When it is built properly nobody thinks about it. When it is not, every one of those systems becomes unreliable at once, and the fault is blamed on whichever one you noticed first.
Maxion Systems Ltd designs and installs networks for homes, offices and multi-building sites across San Fernando and the south, from the cable in the wall to the gateway at the front.
What a network is made of
Structured cabling
Cat5e or Cat6 run properly, terminated on keystones and patched at a panel rather than twisted together behind a cupboard. The cable outlives everything you plug into it, so it is the one part worth doing once and doing right.
Switching and PoE
The switch both connects your devices and powers them, so cameras and access points need no socket of their own. Every switch has a total power budget, and filling all eight ports with cameras is exactly how that budget runs out.
Wi-Fi that reaches
Coverage is a placement problem, not a power problem. Access points on cable, positioned for the building, beat one router turned up loud. They also hand devices over as you walk, which a range extender cannot do.
The gateway
Where your network meets the internet, and the only sensible place to put a firewall, guest access and any remote connection in. It is also what lets you separate cameras from the office computers, so one compromise is not all of them.
Linking buildings
Where a compound spreads across separate buildings, a wireless point-to-point bridge carries the network between them without trenching a yard. Line of sight matters more than distance, and we will tell you before you buy whether you have it.
Power protection
Our supply is not kind to equipment. A UPS on the gateway and the switch keeps cameras recording and alarms reporting through an outage, and protects the hardware from the surge when it comes back.
One thing worth knowing about cable
Network cable is sold in two kinds that look identical on the shelf. Solid copper is what the standard specifies. Copper-clad aluminium is cheaper, and for a short patch lead between a desk and a switch it is usually fine.
Over a long run carrying power it is not. Aluminium has higher resistance, so voltage drops before it reaches the camera or access point at the far end, and the result is a device that reboots at night when the infrared comes on and works perfectly whenever you go to look at it. We stock both, and we will tell you which one your run actually needs.
Design
We start from what the network has to carry, not from a product list. How many cameras, at what resolution, where the people work, whether the building has walls that Wi-Fi will not cross, and what has to keep running when the power does not. Then we size it, with room to grow.
Installation
Cable run in conduit or tray rather than draped, every run labelled at both ends, terminations tested, and the switch and gateway mounted somewhere ventilated and reachable. You get a record of what is plugged in where, which is the thing everybody wishes they had two years later.
Support
Firmware updated, UPS batteries replaced before they fail, and monitoring that tells us a switch or a camera has dropped off before you notice. Much of it we handle remotely, which means a fix in minutes instead of a site visit.
Our Brand Partners
Ubiquiti UniFi
Gateways, PoE switches and Wi-Fi access points that are all managed from one console, on site or remotely. UniFi is what we reach for when a network needs to be looked after properly rather than just plugged in, and their airMAX bridges are how we link buildings across a compound.
Hikvision
Alongside the cameras, Hikvision make the PoE switches and rack UPS units that sit under them. On a camera-led installation it keeps the switch, the recorder and the power protection on one supply chain and one warranty.
A network is usually the first thing we put in and the thing everything else depends on. See our surveillance systems, access control and alarm systems.
We also take over and repair existing networks, including ones we did not install.
