Structured Cat6A cabling and managed switching across 3 retail sites, with SD-WAN failover ensuring each location stays online even if a primary circuit drops.
Book a similar installA retail group with three high-street locations was running each site on consumer-grade routers with no failover. When a circuit went down at the busiest site during a Saturday trading period, they lost card payment capability for two hours. They needed a proper managed network across all three sites — reliable, consistent and centrally visible.
We surveyed all three sites and designed a unified network architecture: structured Cat6A cabling to every desk and PoE device, managed switches in each site's comms room, and SD-WAN routers providing automatic failover between the primary fibre and a 4G backup circuit. All three sites are managed from a single cloud dashboard.
"Since DARKGRID installed the new network we've had zero unplanned downtime — and when our ISP had an outage, the 4G failover kicked in automatically and we didn't even notice until they told us the next day."
— IT Manager, Retail GroupAll three sites were migrated over a series of Sunday mornings to avoid trading disruption. From the day of go-live, each site has maintained the target 99.9% uptime — the SD-WAN failover has already triggered twice during ISP outages, both times transparently.
The central management dashboard means the client's IT contact can now see the health of every switch and access point across all three sites from one screen.