The Closet Reset · After hours · Long Island

Your network closet, rebuilt overnight.

One night, while you are closed. Gear mounted, cables short and labeled, power on battery, and a written map of every port. You come in the next morning and it all just works.

From
$1,500
Time
1 night
Downtime
0 hrs*

*During business hours.

The same closet after a clean-up: short patch cables in neat rows, a labeled patch panel, firewall and PoE switch mounted in the rack.
A small-office network closet before: tangled cables, a consumer router on top of the rack, power strips on the floor.
Before After

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Why the closet

Every phone, computer and card terminal in the office runs through one small room.

01

Calls break up

Voice is the first thing to suffer on a sick network. The switch in the closet is a usual suspect, and the phones can prove it.

02

Outages nobody can trace

When the internet drops, nobody knows whether it is the provider, the router or the cable someone kicked.

03

Nothing can be found

A new desk, a moved printer or a dead port turns into an afternoon of pulling cables to see what moves.

Read how the phones found a bad switch

Before and after

Drag every line.

The usual suspects, one at a time, and what each one looks like when it is right.

Short black patch cables in neat arcs through a cable manager, every port labeled.
Long tangled patch cables of mixed colors spilling out of a switch and patch panel, no labels.
Before After

01 — Patch panel

Short cables, a cable manager, and a printed label on both ends of every run.

A rack-mounted UPS and power strip with cords bundled neatly.
Daisy-chained power strips and power bricks on a closet floor next to an old UPS.
Before After

02 — Power

Off the floor and onto battery backup, so a flicker does not take the phones down.

A wall cabinet with the provider modem on a shelf and a business firewall below it, cables dressed.
A provider modem, consumer router and small switch hanging off a wall by their cables, with sticky notes.
Before After

03 — Internet

Provider equipment mounted, a business firewall in charge, and the account details on file.

Illustrative photographs.

How the night runs

In at closing. Done by morning.

17:30

A written plan before we touch anything, a rollback if something misbehaves, and a call as you open.

  1. 17:30

    Photograph everything

    As the office closes we photograph the closet and label every cable end before anything moves.

  2. 18:30

    Power down in order

    Phones, switch, firewall, modem. Nothing is unplugged that we cannot put back.

  3. 19:00

    Rebuild

    Rack and mount the gear, re-patch with short cables, dress the runs, move power onto battery.

  4. 21:30

    Test every seat

    Every phone registered and called, every workstation online, the Wi-Fi walked end to end.

  5. 07:30

    Morning check-in

    We call as you open. The photos and the site record are already in your inbox.

What you get

A clean closet, and the paperwork to keep it that way.

  • A rebuilt closet

    Gear mounted, short patch cables, cable management, power on battery backup.

  • Labels on both ends

    Every run labeled at the panel and at the desk, matched to the port map.

  • The site record

    Rack elevation, port map, circuit and account details, admin access. Yours to keep.

  • Before and after photos

    So you can see exactly what changed, and so can the next person.

  • A test sheet

    Every phone and workstation checked before we leave, signed off in writing.

  • What we would fix next

    A short written list: consumer gear that should go, weak Wi-Fi, circuits to watch. Quoted separately, never pushed.

Site record · Main closet

Page 3 of 11 · Sample

Rack elevation

  1. 1 Patch panel · 24 port
  2. 2 Cable manager
  3. 3 SW-01 · PoE switch
  4. 4 Cable manager
  5. 5 FW-01 · Firewall
  6. 6 ISP modem · shelf
  7. 7–8 UPS · 1500 VA

9U wall rack · front view

Port map

Panel Location Device Switch VLAN
01 Front desk Phone · Ext 101 1 Voice
02 Front desk Workstation 2 Data
05 Office A Phone · Ext 102 5 Voice
09 Office B Phone · Ext 103 9 Voice
14 Ceiling, hall AP-01 · Wi-Fi 14 Trunk
17 Back room Printer 17 Data

Circuit

Fiber 1G · acct on file

Admin access

Held by you · vault

Last change

Reset night

Yours to keep

A sample page. Hover a port to find it in the rack.

Score your closet

Eight questions. Go look at it first.

Tick everything that is true of your network closet

Your closet

0 / 8

Tick what applies.

Be honest. Nobody sees this but you.

Book a Closet Reset

The price

$1,500

Starting price for a single closet in a small office.

Fixed and agreed before we start, from photos of your closet or a short walk-through. No hourly meter running overnight.

What moves the price

  • No rack or cabinet yet, so we supply and mount one
  • Consumer equipment that should be replaced with business gear
  • Battery backup (UPS) if there is none
  • More than about 24 connections, or a second closet
  • New cable runs to desks, rather than cleaning up what is there

After the Reset, we can keep it that way under a monthly agreement. The site record we leave you is exactly what we manage from.

Questions

Before you book.

Do we have to close the office?

No. We arrive as you close and finish overnight. The phones and internet are down for part of the evening, while nobody is there to notice.

Will you replace our equipment?

Only if it should be. We reuse what is sound. Anything that should go is written into the fix-next list with a price, and you decide.

How do you set the price?

From photos of the closet or a short walk-through. $1,500 is the starting point for a single closet in a small office. The price is fixed and agreed before we start.

Do we need a monthly agreement?

No. The Reset is the one project we take on by itself. Many clients keep the closet that way under an agreement afterward, because the site record is exactly what we manage from.

Who does the work?

SLINC does, on site across Long Island, to a written plan and our own cabling and labeling standards.

What about the phones?

If we run your phones, the Reset includes checking every one of them. If someone else does, we test them anyway and tell you what we see.

Book a Closet Reset

Tell us about the closet.

We will call to ask for a couple of photos, give you a fixed price, and pick a night that suits you.