Blue Ridge Technology

Structured Cabling with Modern Surveillance and Access Control In today's technology-driven world, security is a paramount concern for businesses of all sizes. At Blue Ridge Cabling, we understand the complexities involved in creating a secure and resilient IT environment. Central to these efforts is the effective integration of structured cabling systems with modern surveillance and access control technologies. The backbone of reliable security Structured cabling serves as the backbone for security systems, providing a reliable and organized infrastructure that supports the seamless operation of surveillance cameras and access control devices. This organized setup ensures that each component communicates effectively, enhancing the overall functionality of your security solutions. By maintaining an efficient cabling system, businesses can experience fewer interruptions, facilitating a smooth and uninterrupted flow of data. This is crucial for maintaining the integrity and reliabili...

We announced in last week’s post that Blue Ridge Tech is now offering low-voltage and structured cabling service ! We’re excited about adding another way to serve our customers well, so we’re devoting a few blog posts to this important topic. This week is all about structured cabling: What it is, how it works, and why your business should care about it. What Is Structured Cabling? Put simply: structured cabling is a standardized, organized way of running cables and wires through a building. Even in modern offices where everyone’s phones and laptops are running on wireless, you’ll still find quite a bit of cabling behind the scenes, handling data, voice, and video. All those Wi-Fi antennas, networking equipment, phones (including VoIP phones), and other hardware like on-premises servers—they’re all connected by cabling. When a business sets up a building with structured cabling, the cable routing and layout follows consistent principles and is clearly labeled. In contrast, when business...

Blue Ridge Cabling Get to Know our Latest Service Offering At Blue Ridge Technology, Inc., we’ve been serving customers for years as a high-quality managed IT service provider in the greater Asheville and Hendersonville, North Carolina, area. And now we’re excited to announce a new service type: low-voltage wiring and structured cabling. Why Wiring and Cabling? Put simply: because there’s a need. Businesses need a better approach, one that we’re already well equipped to provide. Throughout our history as an MSP, we’ve worked in, with, and around all sorts of physical environments, from new-build offices to facilities at every stage of age and renovation. And in all of that work, when it comes to wiring and cabling, well: we’ve seen some things. DIY setups, patchwork Frankensystems with parts and pieces bolted on, mislabeled and unlabeled tangles of wires—you get the idea. These systems can limit a business’s ability to do what it needs to do, and they certainly limit or hamper efficie...