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Project in Midtown, Manhattan

An overnight network cutover for a Midtown office.

A Midtown office was splitting from its parent company and needed its own network. Working on site for the office’s IT partner, we swapped the equipment in one night.

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Midtown, Manhattan May to July 2024 (914) 714-4312
The problem

The new equipment was still in its boxes.

The cable was already run and the new gear was on site.

The office still ran on the old company’s internet line and firewall, the box that keeps outsiders off the network. The change had to happen after hours.

What we did

One night for the swap, three visits to finish.

  • Started at 6 pm on May 29, 2024, after the office closed.
  • Replaced the firewall, switch and Wi-Fi access points with new Cisco Meraki equipment, and swapped the battery backup.
  • Racked and cabled the new hardware and brought the network online, so the IT partner could load its settings remotely.
  • Came back on June 3 to connect the new fiber internet line, and on June 12 to reset the meeting room video system.
  • On July 8, set up docking stations and removed the old network equipment.
The result

The cutover was finished that night.

The follow-up visits wrapped up the job by July 8.

When the office moved out in 2026, the same IT partner brought us back to take the rack down.

Related: Business Networking & Wi-Fi, Build-Outs & Moves, New York City

Office network rack with patch panels, switches and patch cables
The rack after the cutover.
Short blue, black and red patch cables running from a patch panel into switches
Short patch cables from the patch panel into the switches.
Orange fiber cable in the fiber port of a firewall with a green link light
The fiber internet line in the firewall, June 3. The green light means the link is up.
Wi-Fi access point on an office ceiling near a doorway
One of the new ceiling access points.
Labeled patch cables plugged into a network switch
Every patch cable labeled.

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