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Network infrastructure & low-voltage systems  ·  Colorado Springs

Everything in the building rides on one layer.

We design, build and certify that layer — pathway, copper, fiber, transport and wireless — so the systems on top of it stop being a mystery. Manufacturer-neutral, standards-first, documented well enough that the next technician doesn't need us.

Proved in hospital corridors hundred-year-old stone sites past the utility line hospital corridors
Scope a project See the work
Entity
Aerial IT LLC
Practice
Design · Build · Support
Posture
Vendor-agnostic
Range
Front Range → backcountry
ANSI/TIA-568 · T568A · CAT6A · 10GBASE-T · OS2 SINGLE-MODE · 802.3BT PoE++ · 802.1X · 802.11BE · 6 GHz AFC · ONVIF · OSDP v2 · AES67 · DANTE · SIP · BACnet/IP · SNMPv3 ·

Most network problems are physical-layer problems wearing a costume.

A camera stream that drops at dusk. A nurse call that lags by two seconds. A reader that goes offline every cold snap. The ticket always says software. The cause is almost always a run that was never certified, a pathway that was never planned, or a switch that was never sized for what got plugged into it. We work the layer underneath the symptom — and we leave behind the documentation that keeps it solved.

01
Capability

Built bottom-up, the way it fails.

Four strata, worked in order. Every one of them is specified against a published standard rather than a product line — which is why the design survives a change of manufacturer, a change of budget, or a change of us.

LAYER 1Physical

Pathway, copper & fiber

Route and support the pathway, pull and terminate to T568A, splice and test the backbone, dress the racks, label every port, and certify the channel with results you keep. Cable, jacks and panels are chosen for the environment and the warranty.

Any manufacturer's plant, terminated one consistent way.

Cat6 / Cat6A 10GBASE-T channels OS2 & OM4 fiber Fusion splicing Plenum & riser pathway Channel certification Rack elevations As-built drawings
LAYER 2/3Transport

Switching, routing & segmentation

Core and edge design, PoE budgeting against real load, VLAN and ACL structure that keeps clinical, camera, building and guest traffic apart, 802.1X where it belongs, aggregation and failover, and firewall policy that exists as a document.

Enterprise, mid-market or open platforms — chosen per site, supported the same way.

VLAN & ACL architecture 802.3bt PoE++ (90 W) 802.1X / RADIUS LACP & redundancy Routing & firewall policy Multi-site management SNMPv3 monitoring
RFWireless

Wireless design & remote uplink

Predictive and on-site surveys, 6 GHz channel planning under AFC, placement that respects stone, plaster and lead-lined walls instead of pretending they aren't there — plus point-to-point bridges and LEO satellite links for sites the fiber map forgot.

Coverage proven with a meter, not with a coverage map from a brochure.

802.11be / Wi-Fi 7 6 GHz & AFC Predictive + validation surveys PtP / PtMP bridges LEO satellite uplink Mobile & vehicle deployments
LAYER 7Systems

The systems that ride on it

Video surveillance and storage sizing, access control and readers, clinical communication and nurse call, networked audio, and building systems — all planned against the same VLANs, PoE budget and switch capacity from the first drawing.

Open protocols first, so today's head-end never becomes tomorrow's hostage.

ONVIF video VMS & retention sizing OSDP access control Nurse call & clinical comms Dante / AES67 audio SIP paging & intercom BACnet/IP building systems
02 · Posture

We spec to the requirement, not to a distributor agreement.

Aerial IT holds no allegiance to a single line card. A hospital, a machine shop and a hundred-year-old chapel do not need the same hardware, and pretending otherwise is how buildings end up locked into a platform that stopped fitting them years ago.

What stays constant is the standard underneath. Build to open protocols and the gear becomes a decision you can revisit — next year, or a decade from now, with whoever is holding the ladder.

Cabling
ANSI/TIA-568 · T568A · Cat6A · OS2 / OM4
Power
802.3af / at / bt · budgeted per switch
Network
802.1Q · 802.1X · LACP · SNMPv3
Wireless
802.11ax / be · 6 GHz AFC
Video
ONVIF Profile S / G / T · RTSP
Access
OSDP v2 · Wiegand migration
Audio
Dante · AES67 · SIP
Building
BACnet/IP · Modbus TCP
Specimen — T568A8P8C
01white / greenTX+ · PR3
02greenTX− · PR3
03white / orangeRX+ · PR2
04bluePR1
05white / bluePR1
06orangeRX− · PR2
07white / brownPR4
08brownPR4
03 · Discipline

One pinout. Every jack. Every site.

Eight conductors, one scheme, no exceptions. The technician who opens that closet in five years — whether it's us or not — should never have to guess which convention the last crew used, or ohm out a run to find out where it lands.

That discipline is the actual product. Sequential port maps, panel-to-outlet schedules, a rack elevation that matches what's screwed into the rails, addressing and credentials handed over in writing. Not a notebook in somebody's truck.

100 m channel limit Certified & archived results Sequential labeling Credential handover
04
Selected work

What it looks like behind the wall.

Copper before rock, racks that stay legible five years later, and the systems that ride on them — clinical, security, performance and residential. Different buildings, different manufacturers, same discipline.

Category, coax and control cable bundles dressed vertically in a stud bay before drywall
Rough-in · Pre-drywallCategory, coax and control home runs supported on the stud line and dressed before rock — bundles straight, tied off-tension, service loop left at every end.
Network rack with a 24-port PoE switch, patch panels, aggregation switch, gateway, cellular router and NVR
Edge stack · Multi-sitePoE access switch, fiber aggregation, gateway, cellular failover and video recorder on one documented backbone.
Access control enclosure with LenelS2 controller and reader interface boards on an Altronix power supply
Access control · EnclosureLenelS2 controller and dual-reader interface boards on a supervised Altronix supply. Reader home runs dressed, labeled, and kept clear of the power side.
Performance venue rack with ETC DMX gateways, Pathway opto-splitters and Cisco switches
Venue · Lighting controlDMX gateways and opto-splitters riding Cisco switching — show control on the same documented network.
Head-end rack with networked power controllers, patch panels, DSP, wireless receivers and amplifiers
Head-end · A/V + networkNetworked power, patch, DSP, wireless and amplification in one rack, fed by labeled conduit stub-ups.
In-ceiling loudspeakers trimmed flush into a white ceiling with exposed timber beams
Residential · Distributed audioIn-ceiling speakers trimmed flush around structural beams — layout set to the room, not to the joists.
Wall-mounted display flanked by in-wall left, center and right loudspeakers
Residential · CinemaIn-wall LCR set to seated ear height, display aligned to it, cable and power concealed in the wall.
Timber-framed performance hall with track lighting, projector and projection screen in use
Timber hall · Projection & lightingProjection, theatrical track lighting and distributed audio in a timber-framed performance hall.
Digital mixing console at front of house for an outdoor stage with acoustic instruments
Outdoor event · Front of houseConsole and stage patch for live sound, run outdoors with its own power and comms.
05
Field record

Terrain that proves a method.

Three environments that between them cover most of what a building can do to a network: a regulated facility that can't go down, a structure built before anyone imagined a data closet, and a site with no utility connection at all.

Valdez, Alaska

Hospital rack & clinical wiring

Rack build and structured wiring inside a working healthcare facility — nurse call, access control and video sharing one documented backbone, cut over without taking clinical systems off the air.

HEALTHCAREL1 · L2 · L7
Green Mountain Falls, CO

Historic building retrofit

Modern network and audio infrastructure threaded through a structure with no chase, no drop ceiling and walls worth protecting. Pathway planned around the building instead of through it.

RETROFITPATHWAY · RF
Remote · Rocky Mountains

Off-grid connectivity

Satellite and point-to-point uplinks past the end of the utility line, with the power budget, weather sealing and unattended recovery a site needs when the nearest technician is four hours away.

REMOTEUPLINK · POWER
06
Method

How a project actually runs.

i

Site walk

Closets, pathway, panel capacity, existing plant. What's reusable, what's landfill, what's hiding above the ceiling.

ii

Design & scope

Drop counts, rack elevation, VLAN and PoE plan, bill of materials, and a fixed scope you can put in front of a board.

iii

Build & certify

Pull, terminate, dress, configure, test. Cutover scheduled around your operations — nights and weekends where it has to be.

iv

Handover & hold

As-builts, labels, certification results, credentials, walkthrough — then monitoring and support if you want us to keep the keys.

Send the floor plan. Get back a scope.

Matthew Elmore on a board-formed concrete wall at a hillside build site in Colorado
Matthew ElmoreFounder & Lead Integrator · Colorado Springs

You reach the person who does the work. No account manager in the middle, no ticket queue to clear before somebody technical reads your email — and the person who walks your site is the person who terminates the jacks.

Direct 719.678.1663 Mountain Time
Email Matthew@AerialIT.org aerialit.org
Service area Front Range & beyond Colorado Springs · Denver · remote sites
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