Structured Cabling

Your network is only as good as what's behind the walls

Most office buildings in Nairobi have networking cabling, but little of it was installed to standards. Runs are taped to pipes, connectors are unmarked, documentation doesn't exist. When something goes wrong, tracing the fault takes hours. When you need to move a workstation, you tear out cables to reuse them. This costs you productivity and makes the infrastructure fragile.

Sentire's structured cabling service puts in place a professional, documented, standards-based network infrastructure that will serve your business reliably for 10 years or more. Whether you're fitting out a new office, refreshing an ageing installation, or expanding to a second floor, structured cabling is the foundation everything else depends on.

Cat6 vs fibre: which is right for you

Cat6 cabling

Cat6 is the workhorse of office networking. It supports gigabit speeds easily and at lower cost than fibre. We install Cat6 to industry standards with proper bend radius, shielding, and termination. Cat6 runs are rated for 10 Gbps over short distances, sufficient for all but the most demanding network segments. In a typical office with 50 to 200 workstations, Cat6 runs from patch panels to wall outlets are the right choice.

Fibre-optic cabling

Fibre is used for backbone runs. connecting your main network equipment room to secondary patches, or linking multiple floors or buildings. Fibre is immune to electromagnetic interference (important in buildings with heavy electrical plant), supports vastly higher speeds, and runs longer distances without signal loss. If your office has a server room on one floor and you're wiring another building across the compound, fibre gets the traffic there reliably.

Complete infrastructure design

We don't just pull cable. We design your entire cabling infrastructure starting with a site survey. Where will your network equipment room be located? How many drops does each department need? What about meeting rooms, warehouses, or outdoor areas? The design produces a blueprint your team (or future IT providers) can understand and maintain.

Professional installation standards

Every run is terminated to standards, tested with professional equipment, and certified. Cabling is routed to avoid interference from power lines, secured with proper support every 1.5 metres, and colour-coded where it matters. When we finish, you receive a set of as-built drawings and a cable plant documentation file that shows every run, where it goes, what it connects, and what its performance specifications are.

This documentation becomes invaluable when you later need to extend the network, troubleshoot a connectivity issue, or retire the cabling. Rather than tracing cables by hand and guessing, your IT team (or any future provider) can open a file and see the answer immediately.

Scalability and future-proofing

A well-designed structured cabling system scales with your business. When you hire 20 new people and need 20 new network drops, a properly installed system has spare capacity built in. Moves, adds, and changes are fast and low-cost. In contrast, a hastily-installed or ad-hoc cabling system quickly becomes congested and difficult to modify without major rework.

Fibre backbone design is particularly important. Fibre bandwidth is nearly unlimited compared to copper. If your office in Nairobi now connects to a branch in Mombasa via a single Cat6 run, fibre would have given you room to grow for the next decade. By the time you need it, copper costs more to replace than fibre cost to install initially.