TECHNOLOGY BUDGETING
CAT-6 CABLING
COPPER AND FIBER OPTIC BACKBONE CABLES
TELEPHONE SYSTEM DESIGN
DATA NETWORKING ETHERNET
WIRELESS NETWORKING
SPECIALIZED AUDIO AND VIDEO SYSTEMS
ACCESS CONTROL / INTRUSION DETECTION
VIDEO SECURITY SYSTEMS
DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS
Technology Budgeting
As with any project, the end result must meet your needs while being within your budget. CommTech specializes in quickly assessing what systems you need and then providing a preliminary budget so that you can feel comfortable moving forward with the project.
Technology budgeting is extremely important during the Pre-bond phase of an educational building project. If the bond is passed and the technology budget was set too low, then the entire project can suffer as you either eliminate technology that can help in the teaching process or take money from other systems to add to the technology budget.
CommTech Design specializes in working with Architects and Construction managers in determine the cost of your system so that when the buildings are actually designed, you aren't left with a great building but no money for technology. At each step in the design process, we provide updated budgets to ensure that the client is aware of what it will cost and can make decisions based on the latest data.
Everyone realizes the need for a highly reliable cabling infrastructure. Not everyone knows how to design, specify and oversee the installation of a cabling system that will provide flexibility while not over-cabling.
CommTech design looks at each building and each client’s requirements and locates communications rooms, designs cable paths and specifies the right cables, faceplates and communications room equipment that will provide connectivity for your employees for years to come.
Copper and Fiber Optic Backbone Cables
When you are working with a large building, multiple buildings or an entire campus, installing the backbone communications cables is a decision you want to make once. Installing copper and fiber cables that will transmit data, telephone, audio, video and security signals to serve today’s and tomorrows requirements is imperative. Clients want to know that their infrastructure is built for growth and the changes in technology that are inevitable.
CommTech Design’s engineers have designed fiber and copper backbones that connect two communications rooms in one building to fiber cables that connect 100 buildings on a University campus.
The choices in telephone systems have drastically changed from even 5 years ago. Do you need a Voice-Over IP (VoIP) telephone system? Will a PBX meet your needs? We have CENTREX, is a new telephone system the best decision for our school? All these questions have to be answered to make sure that the telephone system upgrade will be cost effective and provide additional services to support your business or educational entity.
CommTech Design can help you wade through the marketing and specify a system that is cost-effective and may not be based on today’s “coolest” technology. Our services include investigation of your existing system, a detailed informational process where we meet with the client and local vendors to determine the latest technology that will meet your needs and then the specification of the best telephone system to meet your company’s requirements.
Ethernet is the primary networking type used for today’s offices, schools and industry. To choose the right Ethernet electronics we must first determine what you are going to run over your data network. With that information we determine the speed of individual connections and the backbone connectivity requirements. Will you need Gigabit connections to all your users? Is 10-Gigabit connectivity in the backbone required?
CommTech has worked with numerous clients to determine what they need and then assisted them in choosing a vendor and making sure that the vendor installs the equipment as required. Whatever your network requirements, CommTech will design a system that will serve your business needs.
All the buzz in networking and data connectivity these days is in regards to Wireless Connectivity, 802.11A/B/G/N…Wireless Ethernet is a great connectivity solution for those who move around and need to surf the internet or access small files. Like any networking system, it has its place and its uses.
CommTech Design believes that wireless should be thought of as an extension of your wired network.
When planning your communications systems, wireless should planned for just as wired user locations are planned. The latest wireless networking systems include “thin Access Points” all connected to a smart switch that allows the owner numerous configuration possibilities. Where wireless Access Points used to be expensive antennas that held all the configuration parameters, they are now merely antennas that are wired back to a switch.
CommTech Design designs the Access Point locations into the building from the beginning and places them to provide maximum coverage while allowing you to be ready for the next upgrade in wireless connectivity speeds.
Specialized Audio and Video systems
The different ways that businesses and schools use Audio and Video is almost immeasurable. From simple audio-enhancement in a classroom to Audio and Video presentations in an Auditorium, audio and video is omnipresent in today’s world.
Deciding what you need in your business or school can be confusing. CommTech Design keeps up with the changes in the audio/video industry and designs a technologically advanced system that is easy to use and easy to upgrade. From classroom projectors to Video Conferencing rooms, CommTech will keep you at the audio/video technology forefront.
Access Control/Intrusion Detection
Electronically controlling access to your buildings is not just easier than making multiple keys, it can be used to keep track of who entered and even when they left.
How many schools do you know where half the residents of the town have keys that allow them to get into the High School to play basketball on the weekend. Once a key gets out into the community, there is almost no way to keep people from making multiple copies. With proximity cards that can double as ID’s, the administrator can turn on and off each cards access with just a keystroke.
CommTech Design works with you to find out who needs access to which spaces and when. Then designs an access control system that consists of Card Readers, Proximity Cards, Electric Strikes and control software that allows to keep track of who enters your building and lockdown the building when everyone is supposed to be out.
Where video security systems used to be expensive and unreliable, today they are neither. With the advent of Digital Video Recording and the reduction in the cost of cameras, a complete and high quality CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) system is affordable and reliable. More and more customers want to install CCTV systems to ensure they have a visual record of things that may occur on their property.
CommTech Design is well versed in the different cameras available and will help you choose the best solution to match your security needs. Stationary dome cameras, Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras and Terabytes of recording space all have to be integrated to make the best video security system possible.
With the ever expanding need for wireless connectivity and the ever-increasing size of buildings such as hospitals, something often needs to be done to extend those wireless signals throughout the building. Distributed Antenna Systems are used to extend those signals throughout your building. They can serve Pagers, Radios, Wireless networks and Cell Phones. CommTech Design can help you choose a system that will keep your wireless devices connected to their network.
