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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, wireless. Manufacturer-neutral, standards-first, and 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
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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. A reader that goes offline every cold snap. The ticket says software. The cause is usually a run that was never certified, a pathway that was never planned, or a switch never sized for what got plugged into it. We work the layer underneath the symptom, and document it so it stays solved.

01
Capability

Built from the bottom up.

Four layers, worked in order, each specified against a published standard rather than a product line. That's why the design survives a change of manufacturer — or a change of us.

LAYER 1Physical

Pathway, copper & fiber

Pathway routed and supported, terminations to T568A, backbone spliced and tested, racks dressed, every port labeled, every channel certified with results you keep.

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 budgeted against real load, VLANs that keep clinical, camera, building and guest traffic apart, 802.1X where it belongs, redundant uplinks, 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, and placement that respects stone, plaster and lead-lined walls. Point-to-point bridges and satellite uplinks 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 and storage sizing, access control, 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.

A hospital, a machine shop and a hundred-year-old chapel don't need the same hardware. Pretending otherwise is how a building ends up locked into a platform that stopped fitting it years ago.

What stays constant is the standard underneath. Build to open protocols and the gear becomes a decision you can revisit — 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 — us or not — shouldn't have to guess which convention the last crew used.

That discipline is the product. Port maps, panel-to-outlet schedules, a rack elevation that matches 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. 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 — straight, tied off-tension, service loop 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 backup and video recorder on one backbone.
Access control enclosure with LenelS2 controller and reader interface boards on an Altronix power supply
Access control · EnclosureLenelS2 controller and dual-reader boards on a supervised Altronix supply. Reader home runs 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 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, 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 — laid out to the room, not the joists.
Wall-mounted display flanked by in-wall left, center and right loudspeakers
Residential · CinemaIn-wall LCR at seated ear height, display aligned to it, cable and power concealed.
Timber-framed performance hall with track lighting, projector and projection screen in use
Timber hall · Projection & lightingProjection, theatrical lighting and distributed audio in a timber-framed 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 on its own power and comms.
05
Field record

Terrain that proves a method.

Three environments that cover most of what a building can throw at 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.

Valdez, Alaska

Hospital rack & clinical wiring

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

HEALTHCAREL1 · L2 · L7
Green Mountain Falls, CO

Historic building retrofit

Network and audio threaded through a structure with no chase, no drop ceiling and walls worth protecting. Pathway planned around the building, not through it.

RETROFITPATHWAY · RF
Remote · Rocky Mountains

Off-grid connectivity

Satellite and point-to-point uplinks past the end of the utility line — power budget, weather sealing and unattended recovery, for sites four hours from the nearest technician.

REMOTEUPLINK · POWER
06
Method

How a project actually runs.

i

Site walk

Closets, pathway, panel capacity, existing plant. What's reusable, and 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.

iv

Handover & hold

As-builts, labels, certification results, credentials, walkthrough — then 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, no ticket queue — 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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