Most bad networksWere Never Designed.

They accreted. A router, then a range extender, then a switch under a desk — each one fixing the last symptom. CDM plans the whole property as one system before anything is bought: Ubiquiti UniFi gateway and firewall, managed PoE switching, access point placement, and the VLANs that keep guests, cameras and IoT away from everything that matters.

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Ubiquiti UniFiGateway to access point

Managed PoESized for the load

VLAN segmentationGuests, cameras, IoT

DocumentedHanded over in writing

Three ways this starts

Open walls, tired gear,Or too many systems.

Nearly every design we are called for is one of these three. The building is different every time. The order of the work is not: count it, draw it, then buy it.

01 / New construction

The design should existbefore the drywall does.

On a new build or a gut renovation, the network design is the cheapest line on the job and usually the first one skipped. Rack location, drop counts and access point positions get settled while changing them still costs an eraser.

Plan walked with the builder, the owner and whoever pulls the cable
Rack location chosen for power, airflow and where the ISP actually lands
Access point and camera positions fixed before the ceilings close
Spare capacity left for the thing nobody has thought of yet

Luxury home networks

02 / Outgrown the gear

It worked, until nobodycould say why it stopped.

A building running on consumer equipment fails in ways that are hard to describe. The video call drops in one room. A camera goes offline overnight and is back by morning. Somebody added a range extender and it helped for about a month.

What is actually installed gets traced and written down first
The real bottleneck identified before anything is bought
A design that reuses whatever is still worth reusing
Replacement staged in an order that makes sense, not all at once

WiFi coverage

03 / Several systems, one network

Cameras, WiFi and AVon speaking terms.

WiFi, cameras, door access and AV all want the same wire and the same bandwidth. Designed together, they coexist. Added one at a time by three different companies, they interfere with each other and nobody owns the result.

One VLAN scheme covering every system on the property
PoE budget planned for access points and cameras together
Bandwidth accounted for where the traffic cannot stutter
One gateway, one controller, one place to look

Business networks

What the design covers

Six decisionsMade in the right order.

Design is the cheap part and it is the part that gets skipped. Every one of these is a decision somebody makes whether or not they meant to — the only question is whether it was on purpose.

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Requirements & load

A design starts with a count, not a catalog. Every access point, camera, TV, printer, thermostat, doorbell and rack-mounted box takes a port, an address and a share of the uplink. Nobody can size a network they have not counted.

Gateway & firewall

A UniFi gateway at the edge handling routing, firewalling and traffic policy, sized for the connection coming in and the load going out. It is also the piece that decides which network can talk to which, so it gets chosen after the segmentation plan rather than before it.

Managed PoE switching

Switching sized for what plugs into it, with PoE budget for the access points and cameras that are planned and the ones that arrive later. Managed, so a port can be assigned to a VLAN instead of trusting whatever gets plugged into it.

Access point placement

Access point locations chosen against the floor plan, the construction and the way the building is actually used — not spaced evenly because that looks tidy on a drawing. Brick, tile, foil-backed insulation and a stone chimney all count. Placement is modeled first and verified on site.

VLANs & segmentation

Guests, cameras, IoT devices, point of sale and the machines holding anything worth keeping do not belong on one flat network. Segmentation gets written first in plain English — who is allowed to reach what — and then configured to match that sentence.

Addressing & remote management

Addressing and DHCP laid out so the scheme still reads clearly in three years, remote management set up so a small change does not require a truck, and the whole design written down and handed to you.

Drawn before it is bought

Paper is the cheapest placeTo be wrong.

Every property gets drawn three ways before an order goes out — what connects, where the signal has to reach, and what ends up in the rack. Moving a line on a drawing costs nothing.

What connects

The count first — access points, cameras, TVs, equipment and the ports they each need. Sizing a switch is arithmetic once the list exists.

Where it has to reach

Access point placement worked against the real footprint and the real construction, including the patio, the shop and whatever sits behind a brick wall.

What lands in the rack

Gateway, switching and storage laid out with airflow, power and service access accounted for before anything gets mounted to a wall.

What you keep

The equipment is visible.The thinking is not.

Anybody can walk into a closet and see hardware. What you cannot see by looking is whether a single thing in there was decided rather than defaulted. That part gets written down.

Handed over / every design

The topology

What connects to what, in what order, from the ISP handoff down to the last access point. One page that tells the next person how the building is put together.

The VLAN plan

Which network each device sits on and what it is permitted to reach — written in plain English before it is written into a gateway.

Addressing & credentials

The address scheme, the DHCP ranges and the administrator accounts. They are yours. You are not renting access to your own network.

What was decided

What went in, what was reused, and what was deliberately left for later. The next change starts from a record instead of a guess.

Our lane

The network itself — gateway and firewall, managed PoE switching, access points, VLANs and addressing, plus the cameras, door access and AV that ride on it. Designed, installed and documented.

Not our lane

Desktop and server support, email and software problems, and line-voltage electrical work. We design the road, not the computers driving on it — and we coordinate with whoever handles those.

Common questions

Asked beforeAnything gets ordered.

Usually by somebody who has already bought equipment once, and would rather not do it a second time.

Do I need a UniFi system, or is a better router enough?

If one router covers your building and nothing about it frustrates you, a better router is enough and we will say so. UniFi earns its place once a property needs more than one access point, or has cameras and door access sharing the same wire, or has people on it who should not be able to reach everything. That is a design question, and the free assessment answers it before anybody spends money.

Can you install UniFi equipment I already bought?

Yes. Bring what you have to the assessment and we will tell you what fits the design and what does not. We would rather configure a gateway you already own than sell you a second one. If a piece is genuinely wrong for the building, you get the reason, not just the verdict.

What is a VLAN, and do I need one at home?

A VLAN is a way of running several separate networks over the same wire. Guest WiFi, cameras, thermostats and the computer holding your business records are all on the property, and they do not need to see one another. In a house it matters most for cameras and smart devices, which are the two things most likely to be the weak point.

How much does network design cost?

It depends on the size of the property, how many things connect to it, whether the walls are open, and how much of what is installed can be reused. Design is the cheapest part of the job and it decides everything after it. The free assessment comes first and a written quote follows it — nothing gets priced over the phone before somebody has seen the building.

Do we have to replace everything at once?

No. A design is worth having even if it gets installed over two years. We write down the whole system, then stage it so each purchase still fits at the end. What that avoids is the usual pattern, where every fix is bought in an emergency and none of the pieces were ever meant to work together.

Where we design

Based in Bremen.Drawn for your building.

A network is designed against one specific building, which means somebody has to stand in it. Everything below is inside a comfortable drive of the shop.

Same-day radius

Haralson & Carroll County

Bremen, GAWaco, GABuchanan, GATemple, GAMt. Zion, GATallapoosa, GACarrollton, GA Villa Rica, GABowdon, GA

Regularly serving

Douglas · Paulding · Coweta · Polk

Cedartown, GARockmart, GADouglasville, GA Dallas, GAHiram, GANewnan, GAPowder Springs, GAPeachtree City, GA

No cost, no obligation

Start with aFree network assessment.

We walk the property, count what has to connect, look at whatever is already installed, and tell you what a network for this building actually needs — and in what order to buy it. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.

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