Connecting four sites for a regional builder.
A construction company with offices in Southport, Robina, and two Toowoomba locations had no unified network. Each site ran an ad-hoc setup, and cross-site file sharing happened over email attachments and USB drives. We made the four offices behave like one.
Four offices, four islands.
Each site had grown organically. Different ISPs, different firewalls, different Wi-Fi setups, and no shared identity. A project manager working across two offices carried two sets of credentials and moved files manually.
Four sites, one logical network.
We put matching firewalls into every office, built site-to-site VPNs that tie them together, and consolidated Internet termination so traffic between sites moves over secure tunnels rather than the public Internet.
The four offices now behave as one network with one security perimeter.
Proper wireless at every site, properly segmented.
Managed Wi-Fi went into every location with a separate visitor network, subcontractors, surveyors, anyone walking through, kept well away from staff traffic and shared drives.
Coverage, performance, and security are the same regardless of which site you're in.
The office is wherever the laptop is.
Project managers now get secure remote access to shared drives, estimating software, and the PM tools they use daily, whether they're in the Southport office, a Toowoomba site cabin, or somewhere in between.
Identity is unified, so one login gets you everywhere you're supposed to be.
One drive, one identity, one network.
Everyone works from the same shared drive regardless of which office they walked through that morning. Version drift on project files is gone, and new offices go through a standard build rather than a new adventure.
Multiple sites, no unified network?
Your offices should behave like one business.