Netcom is a multi-vendor engineering firm. We architect networks across Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Aruba, Cradlepoint, and Peplink — sourcing the right certified engineers for each engagement so your project gets the specialist it needs, not whoever happens to be on a bench.
Active relationships across eight OEMs. No vendor quota. We recommend what fits your environment — then source the certified specialist to build it.
Verizon Preferred Partner. Every WAN we design includes cellular — as backup, as primary, or as the failover tier your MPLS contract doesn't cover.
Discovery, architecture, BOM, deployment engineering, 24/7 monitoring via our NOC partner with Netcom as your named engineer. One contract. One accountable partner.
Every Netcom engagement maps to the same seven-layer stack — from the silicon at the branch to the identity-aware policy keeping remote workers out of systems they shouldn't touch.
You can engage us at any layer: refresh wireless and leave your WAN alone, bolt-on a ZTNA pilot, or replace the full stack on a 200-site footprint. We deliver each layer stand-alone or as part of an integrated design.
"Architecture before equipment. Equipment before quotes. Quotes before deployment. Never in the other order."
Each pillar is a full discipline: reference architectures across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise tiers with named vendor recommendations tied to your use case. Vendor-certified engineers are sourced per engagement so your project gets the specialist it actually needs.
Where our deepest bench sits: cellular networking. Netcom is a Verizon Preferred Partner and resells more Cradlepoint, Peplink, FortiExtender, and InHand than any other product class. If you're a retail chain, fleet operator, construction or industrial shop, or a pop-up / mobile / IoT operator — start there →
Dual-transport fabrics with application-aware path selection. Fiber + cable + 5G cellular in active-active failover.
Explore the pillarNGFW, IDS/IPS, SSL inspection, segmentation. PCI, HIPAA, and CMMC-ready architectures with auditable policy.
Explore the pillarPredictive plus validated site surveys. High-density deployments with roaming, segmentation, and SSIDs that actually match your policy.
Explore the pillarPoE++ access, stacked cores, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics. Right-sized for seven-year lifecycles, not next-quarter pricing.
Explore the pillar Our Deepest Bench5G primary, LTE failover, ruggedized + mobile. Verizon Preferred Partner — we sell more cellular routing than any other product class, with SIM provisioning, plan optimization, and NetCloud / InControl managed.
Explore the pillarVPN replacement with identity-aware access. Microsegmentation east-west. Continuous posture assessment per session.
Explore the pillar24/7 monitoring via our NOC partner, change management, quarterly reviews, lifecycle planning. We stay accountable for what we design.
Explore the pillarWe resell, design with, and stand up deployments on these platforms. For every engagement we pair the design with a vendor-certified deployment engineer — sourced from our specialist network when deeper expertise is required.
No vendor quotas. No forced stacks. We recommend what fits — and staff the project accordingly.
Four stages, always in this order. No shortcuts — every deployment we manage today is the result of a disciplined design phase.
Site walk, existing-infra audit, carrier-circuit review, application traffic analysis, requirements workshop.
Reference architecture, BOM, failover test plan, deployment sequence, peer review by a vendor-certified engineer sourced for the engagement.
Project management, staging, config, phased cutover, acceptance testing, rollback plan at every step.
24/7 monitoring via our NOC partner with Netcom as your named engineer. Ticketed change management, quarterly reviews, lifecycle + budget planning.
Compliance frameworks, operational constraints, user patterns — every vertical demands different architectural trade-offs. We've done them.
Multi-site SD-WAN, PCI scope minimization, store-opening velocity.
HIPAA segmentation, medical-device VLANs, clinician Zero Trust.
OT/IT segmentation, Purdue Model, ruggedized switching, cellular backhaul.
CJIS, NIST 800-171, CMMC, cooperative contracting, hardened stacks.
1:1 device density, eduroam, CIPA filtering, E-Rate eligible.
Guest HSIA, PMS integration, event bandwidth bursts, property-level resilience.
Composite examples drawn from the patterns of engagements Netcom delivers. Customer names are illustrative; technical scope, vendor selections, and outcomes reflect real deployments. Ask for a direct reference during your consultation.
Replaced aging MPLS at 120 outdoor-recreation stores with Meraki MX67 + dual-ISP + Cradlepoint S700 cellular failover. Didn't go perfectly clean: existing MPLS contract wouldn't terminate early without penalty, so dual-path ran in parallel for the first 90 days. Four rural stores couldn't get usable Verizon 5G and fell back to AT&T fixed wireless. Wave 2 hit a Meraki firmware regression mid-rollout and we rolled back 18 stores overnight before pushing a pinned-version template. PCI scope collapsed from whole-LAN to VLAN-isolated POS segment after all of it.
FortiGate 600F HA cluster, per-device-class VLANs (ultrasound, infusion pump, guest, clinician), FortiClient ZTNA replaced client VPN for telehealth physicians. The wrinkle: eight clinics required evening-only cutovers to avoid surgery schedules, stretching the window from 12 to 16 weeks. One clinic had an undocumented analyzer VLAN that only showed up when lab results stopped routing at 9pm cutover night — caught and patched before morning draw. No clinical downtime, but it took a very long night to earn that outcome.
Purdue Model retrofit at a fabrication plant: Catalyst IE-9320 industrial switches on the floor, FortiGate 600F at the plant edge separating OT and IT zones, Cradlepoint E3000 5G primary on a remote outbuilding with no fiber availability. The hard part: the plant's senior control engineer had been dual-homing his engineering workstation to OT and IT for years — convenient, non-compliant. Removing the dual-home extended the schedule by three weeks and required standing up a dedicated RDP jump host and a change-approval workflow. Final architecture cleaner; the political work took longer than the technical work.
Netcom engineers will audit your existing infrastructure and return a design recommendation within 10 business days. No pitch, no demo. Just an architecture memo from someone who's done this for a living.