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Enterprise networking in Canada, built by CCIE architects

We design, build, and run enterprise networking for Canada's mid-market and enterprise teams, end to end.

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  • CCIE Data Center
  • CCIE Security
  • CCDE Design
// THE WORK

Enterprise networking, three pillars, one operator.

One Canadian team owns the design, the build, and the cutover, start to finish.

  1. 1

    Data centre fabric

    Cisco ACI and Nexus VXLAN spine-leaf fabrics, designed for micro-segmentation and multi-site, without the guesswork.

    fabrics we design and migrate
    40+
  2. 2

    Campus and access

    Catalyst Center and SD-Access, formerly DNA Center (DNAC), give you policy-based segmentation across every campus and branch.

    campus and branch sites we cut over
    120+
  3. 3

    Assessment and design

    Network assessment and network design services that find the risk before it finds your production traffic.

    uptime we hold after cutover
    99.98%
// THE PROOF

Built to last. Evidence first.

A good network is the one nobody notices: it's fast, it's segmented, and it stays up.

// BY THE NUMBERS

The scale we build to.

Typical engagement targets, delivered hands-on.

  1. SME-NET-001

    40+

    Fabrics we design and migrate (ACI and VXLAN)

  2. SME-NET-002

    120+

    Campus and branch sites we cut over

  3. SME-NET-003

    99.98%

    Uptime we hold after cutover

// IN PRODUCTION

Cutovers that finish before morning.

We don't design for the demo, we design for 3 a.m. Every fabric we build assumes a component will fail, so we test the failure first and cut over only when the network can lose a node and stay up.

SMEnode · Engineering principle
  • CCIE Data Center
  • CCIE Security
  • CCDE Design
  • Canadian data residency available
// THE DEEP DIVE

Enterprise networking in Canada, made real.

I run these builds myself, so here's how enterprise networking actually plays out on Canadian production networks.

Fabric, policy, and assurance.

Good enterprise networking has three moving parts that have to agree: the fabric, the policy, and the assurance layer. The fabric is your Nexus spine-leaf or your ACI underlay. Policy is how traffic is allowed to move, usually SD-Access segments or ACI contracts. Assurance is the telemetry that tells you it's all working. When those three drift apart, you get outages nobody can explain and a war room at midnight. We keep them inside one design so they can't.

How we work.

We work in the open. You get direct access to the architect doing the build, not an account layer that relays messages. Your real risk isn't the technology, it's the cutover window and the state nobody wrote down. So we map the current state first, stage the change in a lab, and keep a tested rollback ready. If a migration has to pause, your production traffic never feels it.
Spine-leaf fabric
// THE METHOD

How an enterprise network project runs in Canada.

Every enterprise networking project we run in Canada follows the same order, because skipping steps is how outages happen. We assess before we design, we design before we touch anything, and we test the failure path before the cutover. You see each stage, sign off on each stage, and nothing reaches production until the rollback is proven. Here's the sequence, start to finish.

  1. Step 01

    Assess

    We map what you actually have: the fabric, the routing, the policy, and the gaps. No vendor bias, no assumptions. You get a written picture of the current state and the risks inside it, in plain language, before anyone proposes a single change.

  2. Step 02

    Design

    Then we design the target: ACI or SD-Access, the segmentation model, failure domains, and the migration path. We fold network security services into the design here, not after, so segmentation and access control ship together.

  3. Step 03

    Build and test

    We build in a staging fabric first and test the failure path. Pull a link, drop a node, watch it reconverge. The rollback is written and rehearsed before we book a window.

  4. Step 04

    Cut over and hand off

    Cutovers run in a controlled window with the rollback on standby. Once you're stable, we hand off clean documentation and, if you want, we run the network for you. You keep direct access to the architect who built it, not a ticket queue.

// QUESTIONS

Enterprise networking questions, answered straight.

These are the questions CTOs actually ask me before an enterprise networking project. Straight answers, written by the engineer who'll run yours.

Enterprise networking is the design, build, and operation of the network that carries a whole organisation's traffic: data centre fabric, campus, branch, and the policy that governs all of it. For most Canadian firms that means Cisco ACI or Nexus in the data centre and SD-Access in the campus, tied together with segmentation and assurance so the network stays fast, secure, and predictable under load.

Most projects run 6 to 16 weeks from assessment to final cutover, though scope drives it. A single data centre fabric refresh is faster; a multi-site ACI build with campus SD-Access sits at the longer end. We price by defined scope, not by the hour, so you get a fixed number before we start. Assessment first is what keeps surprise change orders off the invoice later.

Yes. We can keep your network data, telemetry, and configuration backups inside Canada, on Canadian infrastructure, which matters for public-sector and regulated clients. Data residency is a design decision we make with you up front, not a bolt-on afterward. Our team works bilingually, English and French, and we build with Canadian privacy expectations in mind from the first day of the engagement.

Yes, security is part of the same design, not a separate afterthought. We build segmentation, 802.1X and NAC, and firewall policy into the network from the start, because bolting security on after cutover is how gaps appear. Same architects, one design, so you never have to hand off between a networking vendor and a security vendor and hope they agree.

At the end you get a working network, a tested rollback you hopefully never needed, and documentation your team can actually use: topology, addressing, policy, and runbooks. If you want us to keep running it, we offer 24/7 monitoring and support. If you'd rather run it in-house, we transfer the knowledge so your team owns it outright. No lock-in.
// KEEP EXPLORING

Where this work connects.

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