Office Relocation IT

Moving Offices?
One Team HandlesEvery System.

Cabling, network, internet, phones, cameras and access control, planned against one move date and delivered by one company. No vendor coordination falling on your desk.

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The Real Problem

A Move Fails in the Gaps Between Vendors.

Nobody loses a move because a cable was the wrong color. Moves go sideways in the handoffs.

Here is how it usually goes. The cabling contractor finishes on a Thursday. The internet circuit was ordered late and the carrier needs another three weeks. The phone vendor cannot port numbers until the circuit is live. The camera installer shows up to find the cable runs stopped short of where the cameras actually needed to go. Every one of those vendors did their own job correctly. The project still failed, because nobody owned the sequence.

We own the sequence. One project manager, one schedule, one set of drawings that every trade works from. When the camera locations change in week two, the cabling plan changes with them, because it is the same company holding both.

Office relocation IT planning for metro Atlanta businesses

Scope

What Moves With You

Every system below is ours. Not a subcontractor we found last month.

Structured Cabling

Data and voice runs to every desk, camera, access point and door. Cat6 or Cat6A depending on what will ride on it, plenum-rated where the ceiling is a return-air plenum, terminated into a labeled patch panel and tested before we call it done. Full detail on our structured cabling page.

Internet and Phone Circuits

The long pole in the tent. We check what is actually serviceable at the new address, order early, track the carrier build, and schedule number porting so a failed port does not land in the middle of a Tuesday. See business internet and phone.

Network and Firewall

New floor plan, new wireless coverage problem. We design switching, VLANs, firewall policy and access point placement for the space you are moving into, not a copy of the one you are leaving. Server and closet layout included.

Cameras and Access Control

Camera placement walked on site against the actual sight lines, plus door hardware, readers and credentials. We are an authorized Avigilon and Axis dealer, so the design and the install come from the same team.

Workstations and Servers

Machines are inventoried, imaged and staged before the truck arrives. Servers get a planned shutdown and a planned restart, not a hopeful one. Anything past end of life gets flagged before the move, not after.

Security Carried Forward

A move is the moment security posture quietly degrades. Firewall rules get copied without review, old accounts survive, the guest network gets rebuilt in a hurry. We rebuild it deliberately instead. See our full service list.

Sequence

How the Schedule Actually Works

Backward from your move date, because the carrier controls the calendar more than you do.
Step 1

Site Walk
and Lease Review

We walk the new space with you, ideally before the lease is signed. We are looking for where the building brings service in, where a server closet can realistically live, whether the ceiling is a return-air plenum, what the landlord will let you penetrate, and whether the address has ever had business fiber delivered to it. That last question decides your move date more often than anything else.

The benefit: You find out about the construction risk while you still have the option to pick a different suite.
Step 2

Order Circuits
First

Internet and phone go in the order queue before anything else, because they are the only part of the project we do not fully control. A lit building can be turned up quickly. A suite that needs a new fiber build can take 30 to 90 days, sometimes longer if the carrier needs a permit or has to cross a road. We order early, get a firm commitment date in writing, and build the rest of the schedule around it.

The benefit: Your move date is set by a date the carrier has committed to, not by optimism.
Step 3

Cable the
Open Space

Cable goes in while the ceiling is still open and before furniture arrives. This is the cheapest hour of the entire project and the most expensive one to redo later. We pull to final desk locations, camera positions, access points and door hardware in one pass, land everything on a labeled patch panel, and certify the runs. If your furniture plan is still in flux, we pull extra drops now rather than opening the ceiling again in March.

The benefit: One ceiling opening instead of three, and a documented cable plant you can hand to anyone.
Step 4

Build and
Pre-Stage

Rack goes in, switches and firewall get configured, wireless gets placed and tested against the real walls, cameras and readers get mounted. Workstations are imaged and staged. By the end of this step the new office is a working office that happens to be empty, and we have tested it while there was still time to fix anything.

The benefit: Problems surface on a quiet weekday instead of on move weekend.
Step 5

Cutover
and Day One

Numbers port on a scheduled window. Servers come down, move, and come back up against a checklist. We are on site the first morning your team is back at their desks, because day one is when you find the printer nobody mentioned and the one application that hard-codes an old IP address. Then we stay on as your IT provider or hand you clean documentation, whichever you want.

The benefit: Your first Monday in the new space is a normal Monday.
Who This Fits

Three Situations, One Playbook

Starting up, moving, or staying put and upgrading. The work is largely the same.

Opening a New Location

A first office, a second location, or a suite build-out. Nothing exists yet, which is the easiest version of this project and the one where early planning pays the most. See what we cover.

Relocating an Existing Office

You have equipment, phone numbers, cameras and habits that all have to survive the trip. The hard part is not the new space, it is everything you are carrying into it.

Staying Put and Upgrading

Same address, aging infrastructure. Cable plant from two tenants ago, a switch nobody has logged into, cameras that record but cannot be searched. Same playbook, no truck.

Office Relocation Questions

The five we get asked before every move.
How far ahead of a move should we call you?
As early as you have a signed lease, and ideally before you sign it. The internet circuit is almost always the longest lead time in the project. A new fiber build to a suite that has never had service can take 30 to 90 days from order to turn-up, and no amount of pressure shortens a construction schedule. If you bring us in while you are still touring buildings, we can tell you which addresses are already lit and which ones carry a construction risk that could push your move date.
Can you work with our landlord and property manager?
Yes, and we expect to. Most of the friction in a move is building access, not technology. We handle the certificate of insurance, the after-hours and weekend access requests, freight elevator reservations, and the conversations about where the demarcation point sits and what we are allowed to penetrate. You should not be the middleman between your property manager and six different vendors.
What happens to our phone numbers?
They move with you. Number porting is a scheduled process with the losing carrier, and it is one of the few steps in a move that cannot be rushed or retried casually. We submit the port request with the documentation the carrier requires, confirm the firm order commitment date, and schedule the cutover for a window when a failed port would not take your phones down during business hours.
Do we have to move everything at once?
No, and often you should not. We usually pre-stage the new space first. Cable goes in while the space is still open, the network and internet circuit are tested and running before anyone moves, and workstations are imaged and staged ahead of time. Then the physical move is mostly furniture and boxes, because the technology is already working when your team walks in.
Can you handle a move outside metro Atlanta?
Our hands-on installation work is metro Atlanta. We can source internet and phone service for locations across Georgia and surrounding states, which is useful if you are opening a second site or moving a branch. For work that requires our technicians on a ladder, plan on the Atlanta metro.
Free Checklist

The Office Move IT Checklist

Every task that has to happen before your team sits down in the new building, in the order it has to happen. Six phases, starting before you sign the lease.

Read the Checklist →

Start Here

Plan Your Move

Tell us your move date and we will work backward from it. The assessment is free.
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Have a Move Date? Let’s Work Backward From It.

Tell us the address and the date. We will tell you what is serviceable at that building, what the realistic lead times are, and what the sequence needs to look like. No charge for the conversation.

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