IT Infrastructure
Structured cabling services are the part of an IT project that nobody sees and everybody depends on. Foxnet Securitas designs and installs the passive and active layers underneath modern buildings — copper and fibre cabling, racks and server rooms, switching and PoE, enterprise WiFi and the network segmentation that keeps it all safe — for greenfield fit-outs, brownfield migrations and estates already in daily operation, with field teams across 15+ Indian cities. We approach it from an unusual direction: as a physical security integrator, we know exactly what the cameras, door controllers, fire panels and visitor kiosks need from this layer, because we are the ones who have to make them work afterwards.
What we deliver
- Structured cabling design and installation to TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801 principles, covering Cat6 and Cat6A horizontal cabling, patch panels, faceplates, containment and a full test and certification report per link rather than a visual inspection.
- Fibre backbone between floors, buildings and remote blocks using OM4 multimode or OS2 singlemode, with splicing, termination, OTDR and insertion-loss testing, and aggregation switching sized for the traffic actually crossing it.
- Rack, IDF and server room build covering rack U sizing and layout, vertical and horizontal cable management, power distribution, earthing, access control on the room door and environmental monitoring for temperature, humidity and water ingress.
- Precision cooling and UPS sizing for server rooms, including load calculation in kW per rack, hot and cold aisle discipline where the room allows it, redundancy options and battery runtime matched to the generator start time rather than to a catalogue figure.
- Enterprise WiFi design based on a predictive and on-site survey, with AP placement and density modelled for capacity as well as coverage, WiFi 6 and WiFi 6E equipment selection, channel and power planning, and a post-installation validation survey.
- Network switching and routing with VLAN architecture, PoE budgeting per switch and per closet, uplink and stacking design, QoS policy for voice and video, and switch-level segmentation of security devices from the corporate network.
- Passive networking for physical security systems specifically — camera runs within the 90 m horizontal limit, midspan injectors and fibre where they are not, PoE headroom for heaters and PTZ units, and UPS-backed switching so cameras and readers survive a power event.
- Cybersecurity infrastructure work including firewall and segmentation design, secure management VLANs, credential and firmware policy for network-attached devices, and hardening of the devices security teams normally treat as appliances.
- Documentation and labelling to a TIA-606 style administration scheme, with port-to-outlet schedules, as-built drawings, test results and a rack elevation set, so the next engineer on site is not tracing cables by hand.
How a Foxnet deployment works
- Site survey and requirement capture. We walk the floor plate with the fit-out drawings, count outlets by workstation, meeting room, camera, reader, access point and printer, measure cable routes against the 90 m limit, identify riser and containment availability, and confirm what the server room and each IDF must support over the next refresh cycle rather than only today.
- Design and BoQ. You receive floor-wise cabling layouts, an outlet and port schedule, rack elevations, a fibre backbone schematic, switch and PoE budget calculations, WiFi heat maps from the predictive survey, UPS and cooling sizing, and a line-item bill of quantities that separates passive materials, active equipment and labour.
- Installation and commissioning. Containment and conduits go in with the interior works, cabling is pulled, dressed and terminated, every copper link is tested to its category with results archived, fibre is spliced and OTDR-tested, racks are built and labelled, switches configured with the agreed VLANs and PoE policy, and access points mounted and tuned against a validation survey.
- Handover, training and documentation. You receive as-built drawings, the complete link test report set, rack elevations, IP and VLAN schedules, switch configuration backups, WiFi survey results and warranty documentation. Your IT team is walked through the topology, the labelling scheme and the fault isolation path before we demobilise.
- AMC and ongoing support. A typical engagement structure covers moves, adds and changes to outlets and ports, switch firmware and configuration management, periodic WiFi re-survey after layout changes, UPS battery health checks, server room environmental review, and coordinated support with the security systems that ride on the same network.
Why your security systems depend on the passive layer
Every physical security system sold today is a network system wearing a different badge. IP cameras are PoE endpoints. Door controllers and OSDP readers ride Ethernet back to a controller or a cloud service. Visitor kiosks, intercoms, public address amplifiers and even addressable fire panel gateways sit on the same infrastructure. When that infrastructure is designed by one party and the security system by another, the seams are where projects fail — and they fail after handover, when both parties have been paid.
The failure modes are boringly consistent. A switch is specified with 24 ports and a 190 W PoE budget, then asked to power 20 cameras whose IR illuminators engage at dusk, so half the estate drops off every evening and everyone blames the cameras. A camera position is agreed at 110 m from the nearest IDF, well past the 90 m horizontal limit, and is quietly moved to somewhere useless rather than being served properly by fibre or a midspan. Access control panels are installed on non-UPS-backed switch ports, so a two-minute power dip unlocks or locks a floor. The camera VLAN is never created, so every device sits on the corporate network with default credentials. Nobody labels anything, so a fault that should take ten minutes takes a day.
The argument for having your security integrator own the passive layer is not that cabling is difficult. It is that the person pulling the cable should already know what will be plugged into it. When we design the network, PoE budgets are calculated from the actual camera schedule with headroom for heaters and PTZ; closet locations are set by camera and reader positions as well as by desk counts; security devices get their own VLAN and management policy from day one; the switches serving cameras, controllers and door hardware are UPS-backed as a design decision; and every link that carries a security device has a test result on file. It also removes the commercial seam. When a camera goes offline there is no argument about whether it is a network fault or a camera fault, because one organisation is accountable for both ends of the cable — and that single point of accountability is usually worth more over the life of the system than any line-item saving from splitting the work between two vendors.
Technical specifications and standards
The reference points below are the ones we design against. Standards are attributed to the bodies that publish them; the specification applied to your site is confirmed at design stage.
| Area | Reference point | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Cabling standards | ANSI/TIA-568 series (commercial building telecommunications cabling) and ISO/IEC 11801 for generic cabling | A structured cabling system built to a published standard is testable, warrantable and understandable by the next contractor. |
| Copper categories | Cat6 for 1 Gbps and short-reach 10G; Cat6A for 10GBASE-T to the full 100 m channel, with better alien crosstalk performance and PoE heat behaviour | Cabling outlives three generations of switches; the category chosen now sets the ceiling for the next 10 to 15 years. |
| Distance limits | 90 m maximum horizontal permanent link plus 10 m of patch cords, giving a 100 m channel | This single number decides IDF placement, and therefore which camera and reader positions are possible without fibre. |
| Fibre | OM4 multimode for in-building and short campus backbone; OS2 singlemode for long campus runs and anything expected to carry higher speeds later | Backbone is expensive to revisit; singlemode where the run is long or the future is uncertain avoids a second civil works exercise. |
| Power over Ethernet | IEEE 802.3af (15.4 W), 802.3at PoE+ (30 W) and 802.3bt PoE++ (up to 90 W) at the source, with per-switch power budget calculated against the real device list | PoE budget is the most commonly under-specified number in an IT BoQ and the most common cause of cameras dropping at night. |
| Racks and containment | Standard 19-inch racks sized in U (typically 42U at 600 × 1000 mm for server rooms, 9U to 18U wall or floor cabinets for IDFs), with vertical managers, cable trays and separate power and data pathways | Rack depth and cable management decide whether the room is still workable after three years of moves and changes. |
| Server room environment | Precision cooling sized in kW against measured IT load, hot and cold aisle separation where layout permits, temperature and humidity monitoring, and TIA-942 as a design reference for data centre spaces | Comfort air-conditioning sized by floor area rather than heat load is why so many server rooms run hot and fail in summer. |
| Power protection | Online double-conversion UPS sized with headroom, runtime matched to generator start and load transfer, redundancy options such as N+1, and metered PDUs in the rack | Cameras, access controllers and switches must ride through a power event; runtime is a design input, not a specification afterthought. |
| Wireless | WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and WiFi 6E adding the 6 GHz band, designed for capacity with target signal levels around -65 to -67 dBm at the client and controlled cell overlap | Modern offices fail on capacity and co-channel interference, not coverage; adding more APs without a plan makes it worse. |
| Earthing and administration | Telecommunications bonding and earthing practice per TIA-607 and Indian earthing practice per IS 3043; labelling and records to a TIA-606 style scheme | Earthing protects equipment and people; labelling protects your operating cost every single time something breaks. |
Where we deploy
As a network cabling company operating with field teams across 15+ Indian cities, Foxnet Securitas delivers structured cabling, server room and WiFi projects in Delhi NCR, Noida and Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad. Multi-site clients get one cabling standard, one labelling scheme, one VLAN convention and one documentation format across every location, which is what makes a national estate supportable by a small central IT team instead of nine local arrangements nobody has drawings for.
The work splits into three shapes. Greenfield fit-outs let us sequence containment and cabling with the interior contractor, which is by far the cheapest way to build; the decisive factor is being involved before the ceiling grid closes. Brownfield migrations mean working around a live business — cutovers at night and over weekends, parallel running of old and new switching, and a survey of what is actually installed versus what the drawings claim. Ongoing operations are the long tail: moves, adds and changes, new floors, new tenants, new camera positions and the periodic WiFi re-survey after a desk layout changes.
Because we run the security systems too, the passive layer we build is usually specified alongside them. Our work at Avalara in Pune, covering roughly 90,000 sq ft with cloud access control and CCTV, is a case where the network design and the security design were the same conversation, and the Sber Bank Bangalore banking-grade security transformation shows the same discipline applied where segmentation and documentation are audited rather than assumed.
Indicative investment
Structured cabling is usually costed per node — one node being a single outlet, cable run, patch panel port and test — while racks, server rooms, WiFi and switching are costed as separate packages. The figures below are indicative ranges only — actual pricing depends on site survey, published so you can build a budget before going to procurement.
Indicative ranges by deployment tier
| Tier | Typical scope | Indicative supply and installation |
|---|---|---|
| Small office | 50–100 Cat6 nodes, one 9U–15U wall rack, one PoE switch stack, 4–8 access points, small UPS | ₹4 lakh – ₹12 lakh |
| Mid-size office floor plate | 250–600 Cat6/Cat6A nodes, two or three IDFs, fibre risers, managed PoE+ switching, 20–40 access points, server room with precision cooling | ₹18 lakh – ₹60 lakh |
| Campus, plant or warehouse | Multi-building OS2 backbone, outdoor and industrial cabling, distributed IDFs, high-density WiFi, redundant core, PoE++ for security devices | ₹60 lakh – ₹3 crore |
| Enterprise multi-site | Standardised design rolled out across locations, central switching standard, WAN and segmentation policy, documented as-builts everywhere | Priced per site against the standard design |
Indicative unit-level ranges
| Line item | Indicative range |
|---|---|
| Cat6 node, supplied, installed and tested | ₹2,000 – ₹4,500 per node |
| Cat6A node, supplied, installed and tested | ₹3,500 – ₹8,000 per node |
| OS2 or OM4 fibre backbone, laid and terminated | ₹350 – ₹1,200 per metre plus termination and civil work |
| Managed 24-port PoE+ switch | ₹45,000 – ₹2,50,000 by throughput, stacking and PoE budget |
| WiFi 6 access point, supplied and installed | ₹18,000 – ₹70,000 per AP plus controller or licence |
| 42U rack with PDUs, managers and accessories | ₹60,000 – ₹2,50,000 per rack |
| Server room package: precision cooling, UPS, monitoring | ₹6 lakh – ₹40 lakh by IT load and redundancy |
What moves the number up or down
Cost rises with Cat6A instead of Cat6, shielded cable where the environment demands it, long or outdoor runs needing trenching and ducting, industrial-grade hardware for plants, redundant switching and dual power paths, high-density WiFi for auditoria and cafeterias, and any requirement to work only outside business hours in a live building. Cost falls when containment is coordinated with the interior fit-out before ceilings close, when IDF locations are chosen to minimise long runs, when a single standard design is repeated across similar sites, and when passive and security scopes are procured together so cable runs serve both without duplication. The most expensive decision available is to save money on cabling category now and rewire a live building later.
Support is quoted separately from the capital cost. Annual maintenance contracts in this market are commonly priced as a percentage of installed system value, typically in the region of 8–15% per annum for active equipment depending on whether the contract is comprehensive or non-comprehensive and how many sites are covered; passive cabling is usually covered instead by a manufacturer link warranty of 15 to 25 years where a certified installation and full test results are provided. Moves, adds and changes are commonly handled either on a per-node rate card or as a retained monthly allocation.
Frequently asked questions
How much do structured cabling services cost per point in India?
A Cat6 node supplied, installed, terminated and tested typically falls between ₹2,000 and ₹4,500, and a Cat6A node between ₹3,500 and ₹8,000, with the range driven by cable route length, containment availability, ceiling type and whether the building is live. Racks, switching, fibre backbone and WiFi are costed separately. These are indicative ranges only and firm pricing follows a site survey.
Should we install Cat6 or Cat6A cabling?
Cat6 is adequate for 1 Gbps to the desk and is the common choice for standard office floors. Cat6A supports 10GBASE-T across the full 100 m channel, handles PoE heat better in dense bundles and gives more headroom for high-density WiFi 6E uplinks. Since cabling typically outlives three switch generations, we recommend Cat6A for backbone, access point and camera links even where desks stay on Cat6.
Why should a security integrator also do our network cabling?
Because cameras, access controllers, intercoms and visitor kiosks are network devices, and the passive layer decides whether they work. An integrator who owns both ends sizes PoE budgets against the real camera schedule, places IDFs within the 90 m limit of every device, segments security traffic onto its own VLAN and puts the right switches on UPS. It also removes the argument about whose fault an outage is.
How many access points does an office need for WiFi installation?
Density is driven by client count and application, not floor area alone. A general office often lands near one access point per 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft, while dense areas such as training rooms, cafeterias and auditoria need considerably more, with power and channel plans adjusted to control co-channel interference. We size it from a predictive survey and confirm with an on-site validation survey after installation.
What does a proper server room setup include?
At minimum: correctly sized racks with structured cable management, precision cooling sized against measured IT load rather than floor area, an online UPS with runtime matched to generator transfer, metered power distribution, earthing, fire detection and suppression appropriate to the room, access control on the door, and environmental monitoring for temperature, humidity and water leaks — plus labelling and as-built documentation.
Can you cable and migrate a live office without downtime?
Brownfield migrations are routine. We survey what is actually installed, build the new cabling and switching in parallel, then cut over floor by floor or department by department during nights and weekends with an agreed rollback point at every stage. Security devices are usually migrated in the same window so cameras and door controllers are not left on the old network after the users have moved.
Related services
- Surveillance & Monitoring — IP cameras are PoE endpoints on this network; their retention, bandwidth and switch power budget are designed together.
- Access Control — controllers, OSDP readers and door hardware depend on segmented, UPS-backed switching to stay reliable.
- Video Conferencing — meeting rooms need QoS, wired uplinks and bandwidth headroom that this layer provides.
- Command & Control Centre — video walls, operator workstations and VMS servers sit on the network and server room built here.