Before Bay Computing
A Network on Borrowed Time
Years of organic growth left the campus with an undocumented backbone of legacy copper Ethernet and ad-hoc changes. Outages struck weekly, disrupting the whole community.
Fragile Dorm Wi-Fi and an Expiring Contract
Wi-Fi failed across a 200-unit concrete dormitory, and a Cisco Meraki contract was about to expire with no continuity plan — risking a total loss of connectivity.
Campus Network Challenges
A Campus Running on Borrowed Time
The network had grown organically — layer upon layer of legacy copper Ethernet and ad-hoc changes with little documentation. Outages struck weekly, Wi-Fi faltered across a 200-unit dormitory, and a Cisco Meraki contract was about to expire with no continuity plan in place.
Weekly Outages, an Aging Backbone
An undocumented backbone of legacy copper caused recurring, business-disrupting downtime across the campus, with no clear picture of what was connected where.
Fragile Wi-Fi in a Concrete Dormitory
Wi-Fi faltered across a 200-unit dormitory wrapped in thick concrete and metal-embedded floors — a notoriously difficult RF environment for reliable coverage.
Solutions & Results Delivered by Bay Computing
A Modern Fiber Backbone
Bay Computing rebuilt the campus backbone from ad-hoc copper to multi-mode fiber serving 5 network-closet IDFs, upgraded to enterprise-grade Cisco and Datto gear, and established SNMP-based monitoring. That single project took outages from weekly to effectively never.
Emergency Wi-Fi Swap, Zero Downtime
An urgent swap-in-place of Datto Wi-Fi access points kept the campus connected before the Meraki contract expired, then tuned and improved coverage across the difficult dormitory RF environment.
Security Hardened End to End
A secure edge gateway, Managed Detection & Response on every workstation, SaaS backup, and Microsoft Entra AD join with SSO closed long-standing gaps. What began as a single network fix grew into full managed IT, endpoint, and Microsoft 365 management — still going strong today.