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A few recent jobs, told without names: our clients stay confidential, the figures do not.

Open fiber tray with the splices in their holders Fibers routed along the tray guides Finished fiber tray
These are the photos attached to the splice report.

Optical fiber, March 2026

Splices redone in a distribution cabinet

A link between a distribution cabinet and an access cabinet had to be restored. We redid the splices in the fiber tray and documented every single one.

Splices
25
To redo
0
Average estimated loss
0.00 dB
Splicer
Sumitomo Electric Type-72C+
CableIQ report: seven Cat.6A outlets qualified 1000BASE-T
A page of the report, with site, identifiers and serial number masked.

Copper cabling, May 2026

Cat.6A outlets for an office

New network outlets between the offices and the floor cabinet, in shielded Cat.6A cable. Every outlet was tested and handed over with its own sheet: wire map, length, result.

Cable
Cat.6A FTP
Lengths
about 25 to 31 m
Qualification
1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 10BASE-T, voice over IP
Instrument
Fluke Networks CableIQ
  1. Power48 V
  2. Protectionsurges
  3. RouterMikroTik
  4. Sector radiosthree

Radio links, hilltop site

A mountain radio site

A site that distributes connectivity from high ground: router and sector radios powered at 48 V, with surge protection that, up a mountain, is not an optional extra.

  1. Current serverCentOS 6
  2. Copy and checkdata and configuration
  3. New serverRocky Linux 9
  4. Acceptancewith the users

Business software, 2026

Mexal servers off CentOS 6

Long-standing installations on CentOS 6 are moving to Rocky Linux 9: data, configuration and links to other programs moved onto a base that still receives updates, one installation at a time.

  1. Wi-Fi controllerMikroTik
  2. Collectorwritten in C
  3. Zabbixgraphs and alerts

Monitoring

The missing piece, written in C

The monitoring system could not read the data of the new generation of Wi-Fi controllers. Rather than wait, we wrote the missing piece: a small C program that queries the controllers and hands Zabbix the state of access points and clients.

  1. Blocking listsevery 15 minutes
  2. Dedicated machineSlackware
  3. DNSRPZ zones in BIND
  4. Edge routersBGP blackhole

Operator networks

Blocking applied automatically

An operator has to apply the blocks ordered by the regulator, and fast. The lists are fetched every 15 minutes and turned into RPZ zones, one per source; the IP addresses to block go into a BGP blackhole. Nobody has to remember to do it by hand.

  1. Solar panel
  2. ControllerMPPT
  3. BatteryLiFePO4 4S
  4. Step-down5 V
  5. ESP32-S3with LoRa radio

Embedded, prototype under test

A LoRa node that lives on sunlight

A LoRa radio node that must stay on where there is no power: an ESP32-S3 with LoRa radio, a solar panel, an MPPT charge controller and a four-cell LiFePO4 battery.

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