We work where your network actually lives: in the rack, on the tower, in the config. Every engagement covers design, configuration, validation, and documentation your next engineer can follow.
Defined scope, defined deliverable, price agreed in writing. If you don’t see a package that fits, ask for a custom engagement.
Turn-up & acceptance testing
Prove a new or upgraded circuit delivers what you paid for before you accept it or put traffic on it.
Migration & cutover
Router refreshes, capacity upgrades, IP-over-DWDM moves and vendor migrations, planned with a way back.
Owner’s engineer
An independent, experienced engineer on your side of the table while a vendor or integrator does the build.
Fractional network engineer
Experienced engineering every month without a full-time hire. Escalations, change reviews and documentation that stays with you.
Don’t see what you need?
The packages are starting points, not limits. Bring the problem and we’ll scope a custom engagement around it: an architecture review, a one-off migration, RFP support, RF or microwave work, a voice or legacy switch cleanup, an automation project, or something not listed here.
Ordered by current demand. For every individual capability, see the capabilities index.
Nokia 7250 IXR, 7705 SAR and 7750 SR are home turf. Production SR OS work: IS-IS and OSPF as the IGP, BGP for inter-AS and route reflection, LDP, MPLS L2 and L3 VPNs, VPLS and epipes, EVPN, QoS scheduling, BFD, and IPv4/IPv6 services. Code upgrades with full pre/post checks and rollback readiness.
Ciena packet-optical and coherent DWDM transport, IP-over-DWDM where the network needs the bandwidth, and microwave and dark-fiber backhaul upgrades. Every circuit proven with RFC 2544 and Y.1564 before it carries traffic. Cisco IOS-XR and Juniper MX welcome; multi-vendor networks are normal work for us.
Link budgets calculated against real terrain, path engineering that survives the rain-fade season, and antenna work that accounts for polarization and interference. RF engineering for licensed microwave, unlicensed and millimeter-wave links, coordinated through FCC ULS.
For mobile networks: Ericsson UTRAN, CRAN and 5G baseband integration, 4G LTE and 5G NR, C-Band and CBRS capacity turn-ups, and RAN reachability troubleshooting from the eNodeB to the core.
Topology that scales the way your business does. We design for redundancy at the layers that matter, capacity where it’s needed, and operational sanity at every interface, informed by years of operating the networks other people designed.
Greenfield builds, data center interconnect, WAN consolidation and vendor migration. Drawn before it’s deployed, validated before it’s promoted.
Linux is the foundation, in production since 1998: servers, containers, network tooling and bastion hosts, reproducible and documented.
Python and Bash are the working languages: production tooling, monitoring integrations such as SevOne, NETCONF and RESTCONF clients, parsing, and the sed, awk and jq pipelines that turn a raw dump into something an engineer can review. Ansible for repeatable configuration, NETCONF and YANG for model-driven change.
At the orchestration layer: Nokia NSP for SR OS software upgrades, service operations and monitoring, and Ciena Blue Planet for multi-domain packet-optical orchestration.
Edges that hold. Routed and firewalled boundaries on pfSense and enterprise platforms, with policies that audit cleanly, VPNs that stand up to scrutiny, and segmentation that keeps a problem in one place.
On the carrier side: SNMPv3-hardened management, vulnerability patching on production routing gear, and compliance auditing to Telcordia standards.
FreePBX and Asterisk for organizations that want a flexible voice platform without enterprise licensing. Sonus SBC and SIP trunking for the carrier voice plane.
And when nobody else will touch it: Lucent 5ESS and Nortel DMS-100 support, SS7 link health and trace analysis, and orderly migration to IP. We’ve maintained these switches in production, from RCC clusters and OMP backups to clearing alarms at the console.
Design reviews, vendor evaluation, RFP support and technology roadmaps. Experienced advice for the decisions you live with for a decade.
Scoped engagements such as MOVE and PROVE, or custom builds, migrations and automation rollouts. The engineer who designs it stays through cutover.
KEEP: monthly engineering, escalation support, change windows, and the second set of eyes worth having on a Sunday-night maintenance.
Packages and project work are fixed-fee against a written scope. Strategic consults can be time and materials at a single hourly rate. Retainers are monthly with defined hour tiers. Pricing is shared after a scoping conversation.
Ask for a custom engagement. Describe the problem and we’ll scope the work around it, whether that’s a single design review, an RF study, a voice migration or a multi-month project.
We’re based in California and deliver every engagement remotely, for clients worldwide. Field work on site is done by your teams or contractors, with us on the bridge.
Scoping typically happens within a week of your inquiry. Start dates depend on current load, and you’ll hear about availability up front.
Yes. Mutual NDAs are routine and signed before any detailed scoping. We can work from your template or provide one.
Yes. We can work under your MSA and inside your change-management, access and security policies, or from our standard agreement. W-9s and supplier-registration paperwork are routine, and NDAs come first.
Every engagement is built so you’re never dependent on one person’s memory: baselines, methods of procedure, as-builts and runbooks live with your team from day one, and any competent engineer can pick them up. That isn’t a disclaimer; it’s the operating principle.
Professional references are available to qualified prospects after an initial scoping call.
Ready to start?One inquiry, no sales funnel. A package, a custom scope, or an honest referral if someone else is the better fit.
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