Enterprise Networking

What This Covers

Enterprise networking across a large, geographically distributed organisation. This isn’t home networking or small-office deployments — it’s coordinated infrastructure across 100+ sites.

Cisco Meraki

The primary enterprise networking platform:

Centralised Visibility Single dashboard view across all sites. Understanding what’s connected, what’s happening, where the problems are.

Secure WAN Design Site-to-site connectivity, secure routing, appropriate traffic segmentation.

Vendor Coordination Working with Meraki and resellers on support, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Enterprise networking means enterprise relationships.

Cloud Integration Alignment with Entra ID, Intune, and the broader security strategy. Networks aren’t isolated — they’re part of the identity and security fabric.

UniFi Deployments

For specific sites and use cases, UniFi infrastructure:

Wi-Fi Optimisation RF tuning, channel planning, dealing with interference in challenging environments.

VLAN and Segmentation Proper network separation — student devices, staff devices, IoT, guest access. Not everything should talk to everything else.

Device Onboarding Secure device provisioning, 802.1X where appropriate, integration with identity systems.

Surveillance Integration UniFi Protect for camera systems, keeping surveillance traffic properly isolated.

Depth Beyond Dashboards

It’s easy to click around vendor dashboards. The actual work is understanding what’s happening underneath:

• Why is this access point performing poorly?
• What’s causing the intermittent connectivity at site X?
• How do we segment this new device type safely?
• What happens when we upgrade and something breaks?

Experience with both Meraki and UniFi provides perspective on different approaches and trade-offs.