Hollywood, FL · Late 2010s
Three Buildings, One Internet Bill: a Wireless Bridge and N+1 Cluster in Hollywood
A commercial property in Hollywood spanned three adjacent buildings, and the IT had grown the way it usually does: three separate internet bills, aging cabling from another era, and mission critical management software running on one old PC that lost data whenever it rebooted. Also, the security cameras had been dark since a hurricane three years earlier.
By Lazaro Anias, founder & engineer. Published . Updated .
- Location
- Hollywood, FL
- Project period
- Late 2010s
- Scope
- Three buildings, wireless links, virtualization and camera restoration
Where it stands: The owners still call for occasional support work, billed per job.
The challenge
- Paying for three separate commercial internet lines across three buildings that sit within sight of each other.
- A single point of failure: the management software lived on one unbacked up PC.
- PoE cameras offline for over three years after hurricane damage nobody had traced.
What we built
Ubiquiti point to point wireless bridge
Roof mounted antennas spanning the 25 to 50 meters between buildings, consolidating all three structures onto one primary high speed connection.
N+1 high availability cluster
We moved the management software from the single PC to a virtualized failover cluster. This addressed host failure; backups and the shared internet connection remained separate parts of continuity planning.
Automated reporting in Python
A purpose written script that pulls database records and delivers clean PDF reports straight to the owners’ phones, replacing manual spreadsheet work.
Camera restoration
Re cabled and restored the 4K PoE camera system with a rolling two month video archive.
The results
- Two separate internet subscriptions were canceled, saving an estimated $600 per month, or $7,200 annualized.
- The management application moved from an unbacked-up PC to a failover cluster. A cluster does not replace an independent backup.
- The camera system was restored with a rolling recording archive.
Client details are anonymized out of respect for the businesses involved. The work, the numbers, and the outcomes are real.
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