The most expensive network mistakes get made on day one, in the design — long before anyone signs off on hardware.
When a network is scoped properly first, an outage is an inconvenience rather than a crisis; a new site comes online without a war room; and the kit you buy is the kit you actually need, sized for where the business is heading rather than where it is today. That is the standard we design to — whether it’s a single office fit-out, a multi-building campus, a datacentre, or a wide-area network spanning sites and states.
The part that keeps enterprise and managed service provider (MSP) buyers up at night is rarely the office Wi-Fi — it’s the hard stuff underneath. Tying multiple sites together so they behave like one network. Secure links between offices that hold up to scrutiny. Routing that fails over cleanly when a carrier or a path drops. That work is genuinely complex, and we take it off your plate: you tell us how the business needs to operate across its locations, and we own the design decisions that make it resilient and secure.
Wireless is where most networks quietly fail, so we design it rather than guess at it. Our engineers are certified to model coverage, capacity and roaming before a single access point goes up, and to confirm it on site — so a warehouse, a school, an office floor or a venue gets a design built for the space and the way it’s actually used, not a scatter of access points and hope.
Design isn’t only diagrams. Real World holds an electrical contractor licence (481068C) and a master security licence (000110601), and we’re a prequalified supplier on the NSW Government ICT Services Scheme (SCM0020) — so the cabling, the comms room and the security-system network are designed and delivered by the same qualified, experienced team, not handed to a separate contractor who has never seen the design. We specify what fits the brief, not what a vendor wants us to push.
And we design IT, voice and connectivity as one network rather than three bolted together afterwards — because the problems almost always live in the seams. The team that architects your WAN is the same team that runs the voice platform and the carrier services underneath it.
What's included
- Network architecture and topology design — offices, datacentres, media studios and wide-area networks
- Resilience and failover design — dual paths, redundant hardware, disaster-recovery network planning
- Multi-site WAN design — secure inter-office links, SD-WAN and private interconnects, routed and failed over cleanly across locations
- New-site and expansion design — from a single office fit-out to a multi-building campus
- Wi-Fi design, predictive modelling and on-site heatmapping — Ekahau-certified engineers
- Structured cabling and comms-room design, backed by our electrical contractor licence
- Security-system network design, backed by our master security licence
- NSW Government ICT Services Scheme (SCM0020)
- Vendor-neutral — we specify what fits the brief (Aruba, Ubiquiti and others), not what we're told to push
- IT, voice and connectivity engineered as one network, not three
Why it matters
Design before you buy
The most expensive network mistakes are made on day one, in the design. We do the topology, the failover thinking and the Wi-Fi modelling up front — so the kit you buy is the kit you need, sized for where the business is going, not just where it is today.
The hard multi-site work, off your plate
Tying multiple sites together so they behave like one network, with secure links between offices and routing that fails over cleanly, is where networks get genuinely complex. You tell us how the business needs to operate across its locations; we own the design decisions that make it resilient and secure.
One team across IT, voice and the building
Most network problems live in the seams between disciplines. We design IT, voice and connectivity together — and we hold the electrical and master security licences for the physical side — so there's no gap between the design and the people pulling the cable.
Wi-Fi designed, not guessed
We don't scatter access points and hope. Our engineers are certified to model coverage, capacity and roaming and to confirm it on site, so wireless is engineered for the space — warehouses, schools, offices, venues.
Built for failure, on purpose
We design assuming things break — carriers, hardware, sites. Failover paths, redundancy and disaster-recovery network design are part of the brief, so an outage is an inconvenience rather than a crisis.
Technologies we use
- Aruba (HPE Aruba Networking)
- Ubiquiti / UniFi
- Ekahau (Wi-Fi survey — certified)
- Hamina (Wi-Fi design)
- SD-WAN
- Structured cabling (electrical licence 481068C)
- Security systems (master security licence 000110601)