Common Area WiFi & Building Networks
Lobby, end-of-trip and meeting-hub WiFi for Perth office towers, on a properly designed base-building network that also carries CCTV, access control and BMS devices — separated from tenant networks and managed ongoing.
Reliable WiFi where the building offers it as an amenity — lobby seating, end-of-trip facilities, shared meeting hubs and wellness spaces — with a branded guest experience and coverage that was actually surveyed, not guessed.
One properly designed base-building network carrying CCTV, access control, intercoms, BMS devices and common-area WiFi on segmented networks — instead of a different unmanaged switch in every cupboard.
Base-building services and tenant networks stay firmly apart — separate infrastructure and segmentation so no tenant can reach the building’s cameras or controllers, and no building fault lands in a tenancy.
Monitored access points and switches, firmware kept current, guest portal maintained, and faults dealt with under a managed agreement — so the network stays an amenity rather than becoming the FM’s hobby.
The accidental network
A switch went in with the CCTV upgrade. Another arrived with the access control. The BMS contractor added their own, the EOT fit-out brought a WiFi router, and none of it is documented, monitored or patched. It works — until a switch in an unlabelled cupboard fails and takes the cameras down with it, and nobody knows which cupboard.
We replace the accumulation with a designed converged network: one documented backbone through the risers, segmented so cameras, access, BMS and guest WiFi each stay in their lane and firmly apart from tenant networks, and monitored under a managed agreement so faults are found by us rather than by the concierge. Because we install the security systems that ride on it — as the team behind Great White Security, with 21+ years in the industry — the network and the systems it carries are one contractor’s responsibility, not a boundary dispute.
Tenants run their own networks for their own businesses. The building increasingly has its own devices — IP cameras, access controllers, intercoms, BMS and metering equipment, common-area WiFi — and they need a network someone owns. A designed base-building network gives the FM one documented, managed platform instead of orphaned kit scattered through risers and cupboards.
Yes, when it’s designed as a converged network rather than one flat one. Each service sits in its own segment — cameras can’t be reached from guest WiFi, guests can’t see the BMS, and a compromise in one segment doesn’t hand over the building. That segmentation, not the hardware, is what you’re paying for in the design.
For most base-building networks we deploy Ubiquiti UniFi, with D-Link in some applications — platforms that scale across a tower without enterprise licensing overhead, are straightforward to support, and give management proper visibility. As always, the recommendation follows the building’s requirements rather than a house brand.
Yes. Access points and switching go in like our other base-building work — riser and ceiling work after hours or in agreed windows, inductions and permits handled, tenant notices out before work near occupied areas, and the lobby presentable every morning. Cutovers to the new network are staged so no building service drops during business hours.
Patchy lobby WiFi, or a building network nobody owns? Get a converged network proposal.
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