BlackvaultEngineering services
Design that's right before it's built.
Standards, sizing, and design review for the five infrastructure layers a site's network depends on.
The five layers
What we engineer.
Network room & rack design
The main network room is a site's central hub; secondary distribution rooms extend reach where copper can't (100 m practical limit).
- Room, rack, and cabinet layout standards
- Capacity planning: UPS and rack load sized on realistic draw, not raw nameplate
- Cooling gate check run against the actual room once a site is known — not against a generic template
- Generic bill-of-materials templates validated per site before approval
Carrier entrance & hand-off
The carrier entrance is the physical hand-off between a carrier's circuit and your network equipment.
- Build standard: equipment, grounding, labeling, and power protection at the hand-off
- Remediation programs to bring existing hand-off points up to standard
- Carrier and vendor coordination up to the boundary of responsibility
IT power
UPS and battery systems that keep network equipment running through a utility outage.
- UPS sizing methodology and lifecycle standards
- Grounding, bonding, and redundancy tiering
- Design standards that feed vendor RFPs
- Power monitoring and metering integration
IT cooling
Air-conditioning capacity that keeps network rooms inside safe operating temperature.
- Cooling validation methodology with a pass/fail gate
- Documented exception path when available cooling falls short
- Alignment to ASHRAE thermal guidelines
Structured cabling & telecom
The copper and fiber that connects every drop from the distribution room out to the endpoint.
- Copper limits enforced: 90 m permanent link, 100 m channel
- Fiber standards, and fiber media converters where a drop must exceed copper reach
- Pathway design, performance categories, and labeling/color-coding
- Regional product approval where standards or product availability differ
AI & automation
The monitoring and intelligence layer that sits across the other five.
- Power, cooling, and network-room monitoring across SNMP, Modbus, and building-management sources
- Capacity and lifecycle forecasting from your own data
- Automation for triage, ticketing, and reporting, with human approval on irreversible actions
- See AI & Automation offerings
Service catalog
What you receive, and how to ask for it.
| Service | What you receive | How to engage | Lead discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network room design review | Approved design, or documented deviation sign-off | Engagement request | Low-voltage |
| Carrier hand-off build / remediation standard | Build approval or remediation scope | Engagement request + carrier/vendor coordination | Low-voltage |
| Power capacity assessment | Sizing validation against the load methodology | Capacity assessment request | Electrical |
| Cooling validation (gate check) | Pass/fail against the cooling threshold, or exception sign-off | Run when a design is matched to a real site; exceptions by request | HVAC |
| AI monitoring & automation | Instrumented, alerting, and forecasting across the layers above | Scoped engagement — see AI & Automation | Engineering + AI |
| Structured cabling design review | Approved cabling plan within copper limits, or approved fiber/media-converter exception | Engagement request | Low-voltage |
Let's talk about your infrastructure.
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