The Right Internet Connections for Every Location
Every phone call, cloud app and video meeting depends on your internet connection. We find the most reliable options available at each of your locations, build in a backup so one outage doesn’t take you offline, and negotiate the best price and value from the carriers.
We start with what you have today and where a single failure could stop work, then recommend the changes that make the biggest difference for the money.
Running more than one location? Our managed SD-WAN built on Cisco Meraki ties every site together over secure Auto VPN, with automatic failover between your primary and backup connections.
What Happens When You Don’t Evaluate Your Network?
Without a clear picture of how your network, devices and programs work together, you risk slower speeds, frequent outages and system failures — and the lost time and cost that come with them. We evaluate and upgrade the architecture of your entire network to prevent that.
A Long-Term Partnership
Every organization is different, so we listen to your goals before recommending anything — then stay with you through implementation so changes go in correctly, with minimal disruption to your day.
The Right Primary and Backup Connection for Every Location
No two addresses have the same options. For each of your offices, warehouses and sites, we look at what carriers can actually deliver there — fiber, cable, dedicated circuits, fixed wireless, cellular and satellite — and weigh speed, reliability, lead time and cost against what that location needs.
- Review each location. What’s available at the address, what you use today, and what the people and systems at that site depend on.
- Pick a primary and a backup for each site. For example, fiber as the primary with fixed wireless or cellular as the backup — on a different carrier and a different physical path, so one cut line or carrier outage doesn’t take the site down.
- Implement it. We coordinate the carriers and installation, configure your firewall to fail over automatically, and test the switch before we call it done.
- Keep it running. Every connection is monitored by our 24×7 NOC, and we work with the carrier for you when a line has a problem.
The result is a connection plan built around your business, not a carrier’s catalog — the best solution for each location, and the budget to match.
Network Consultation Is Only the Start With CAL IT Group
Getting started — and keeping up with your infrastructure — can be stressful. After we evaluate your connectivity, we give you a clear plan: what to change, what it costs and what it fixes.
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How We Choose the Right Connections
Whether you’re opening a new site or replacing a connection that keeps dropping, we weigh eight things before recommending anything:
- 01 · Budget
Budget and scope
We balance what you need against what’s within reach. Fast-to-deploy wireless or satellite can bridge a gap while a hard-wired circuit is ordered — and there are options even when money is tight.
Cost vs. timeline - 02 · Service type
Dedicated or shared broadband
Shared broadband can slow down when demand peaks. A dedicated line reserves your full bandwidth and comes with an SLA for speed, uptime and repair response.
Fiber · DIA · broadband - 03 · Location
What’s available where you are
Your address shapes which carriers and speeds you can get and how fast they deploy. We map options against the needs of your on-premises, cloud and hybrid apps.
Carrier availability - 04 · Performance
Speed, bandwidth and performance
Email and browsing need far less than file transfers, video and conference calls. We size the connection to how your team actually works — with headroom to grow.
Bandwidth sizing - 05 · Timeline
Planning the timeframe
Some connections are plug-and-play; others need construction from the street to your suite. We build in lead time for permits and shortages, with a temporary backup when you need to move faster.
Install planning - 06 · Resilience
Redundancy, uptime and recovery
Every circuit fails eventually. Multiple carriers plus cellular failover, with traffic steered across each link, keep your business online and speeds steady when one goes down.
SD-WAN · LTE/5G failover - 07 · Security
Cybersecurity and compliance
Separate connections reduce attack exposure, and regulated environments — healthcare, finance, labs — may require private networks. We design with your risk and compliance obligations in mind.
Private networking - 08 · Management
Carrier management after install
We monitor every circuit 24×7 and work with the carrier for you when a line goes down, so you never wait on hold with a provider.
24×7 NOC monitoring