Audit-Grade Smart Hands · London

Everything we touch
leaves site audit-ready

Senior engineers
Insured
Published standard
Locked on sign-off
Senior engineers
Insured
Published standard
Locked on sign-off
What we do

One standard, every job

Rack and stack through to firewall deployment, delivered by engineers with more than fifteen years in data centers and enterprise networks.

Smart Hands

Rack & Stack

We mount, power and install to your specification and your standards. The engineer on site already knows your layout.

Cable Patching & Dressing

Copper and fibre patched, routed, bundled and velcro-wrapped. No zip ties on data cabling, ever. The cabinet is left cleaner than we found it.

Cable Labelling

Machine-printed, self-laminating labels on both ends of every cable, to your naming convention or one we supply. Never handwritten.

Estate Remediation

Inherited racks, undocumented cabling, a schedule nobody trusts. We trace every cable, identify both ends, label it and re-dress the lot. The survey comes first, so the cost is known before we start.

Assurance & Support

Documentation & DCIM Audit

We check your records against what is actually in the racks and hand you a findings register your auditor can read, at a fee agreed up front. Where everything matches, the report says so.

Network Design & Deployment

Routing, switching and wireless. Designed, deployed and tested under load before they carry production traffic.

Network Security

Firewalls, segmentation, access control and posture assessments. Hands-on with Cisco and Palo Alto every day.

Managed Network Support

A named engineer, contractual response targets, and every visit documented in your portal.

How We Work

Four steps, no surprises

Clear scope, prepared deployment, and documentation you sign off in your portal.

01

Scope

Cable schedule, site access, naming conventions and timeline, collected up front.

02

Quote

A firm price within 24 hours, covering labour, consumables and travel. If anything changes on site, we stop and get approval before proceeding.

03

Deploy

Your engineer arrives with labels pre-printed, kit packed and the schedule reviewed. Progress is tracked live through the platform.

04

Handover

Cable schedule, rack photos and full documentation delivered for review. You sign off in the portal, and the job locks.

Everything in one place

Log in to see every site, rack and device, and every job in flight. Download cable schedules, view rack photos, track progress and sign off work in one place.

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Sites, Racks & Devices

Every rack with a real elevation diagram, not a spreadsheet. All your infrastructure in one view.

Live Job Tracking

Status from enquiry to sign-off, with prices, engineers and dates visible throughout.

Documentation & Photos

Cable schedules, before-and-after photos, handover packs. Always accessible, no request needed.

Secure & Multi-Tenant

Role-based access, mandatory 2FA, and sign-off with a full audit trail.

Projects

We build the lot

No two sites are the same, so every project opens with a survey and a written report. You get a firm price for your building, and it moves only if the scope does.

Office Network Build

Thirty to two hundred desks, priced line by line from a bill of quantities for your building. The programme is dated at kickoff. You buy the hardware on your own account, so the warranty sits with you rather than with us. Snags in the first thirty days are ours to fix.

  • One team from survey to cutover, cabling included
  • As-builts, configs, test results and photographs in your portal at handover
  • Sign-off locks the job. The record cannot be altered afterwards.
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Cloud Connectivity

Every ExpressRoute and Direct Connect ends in a real building: a cross-connect in a meet-me room, a port on a switch. We build that path, test it, and photograph it before we leave.

  • Circuits project-managed to live: single, dual-failover or SD-WAN
  • Colo exits come with the evidence pack your landlord and your auditor will ask for
  • Workload migration and cloud architecture stay with your cloud team. We build the layer they land on.
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The Optera Difference

One engineer who already knows your racks

A named lead engineer owns your account and learns your rack layout, labelling convention and change control process. Visits get faster, documentation stays consistent, and your team spends less time supervising ours.

What you get
A named lead engineer

Assigned to your account, and familiar with your racks, labels and processes.

Documentation as standard

Cable schedule, typed rack photos and handover pack on every job, in your portal.

Continuity across jobs

Your engineer builds knowledge of your estate over time. You stop re-explaining it.

Direct communication

You can speak directly with the engineer doing the work.

About Optera

We built the company we wanted to hire

After more than fifteen years in data centers and enterprise networks, we had a clear view of what good looks like: senior engineers who know the environment, documentation delivered with every job, and a platform where clients can see and sign off everything.

Nobody was selling it that way, so we built it. A price agreed before work starts, one consistent process for every job, and direct access to the engineers doing the work.

A named lead engineer

A named senior engineer owns your account and learns your racks, labels and processes. Where we bring in a delivery partner, they work to OPT-STD-01 like everyone else, and you may veto any substitute.

Documentation as standard

Cable schedule, typed rack photos and handover pack on every job. When you sign off, the job locks in your portal.

The price you agree is the price you pay

You see the total before we start. If scope changes on site, we flag it and agree the cost before doing the work.

London operations

London-based, covering London and the South East. Response targets are contractual, not marketing copy. Professional indemnity of £1m and public liability of £2m, with certificates on request.

Get Started

Start with one job. Judge us on the record

A one-off install, ongoing smart hands, or a documentation audit. Send us the details and you will have a firm price within 24 hours.

London Office

Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom

Coverage

London and the South East.
Wider UK by arrangement.

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