Outside-plant fibre
Route survey, trenching, ducting, aerial spans, splicing and testing. Delivered with an as-built record so the next engineer can find the cable.
SurveyBuildOTDR testing
Telecom & Network Infrastructure
Infrastructure that still works in year five.
Fibre outside plant, microwave backhaul, towers and site works, data-centre fit-out and managed operations. Designed with the maintenance problem in mind, because that is where infrastructure programmes actually fail.
What delivery includes
- Survey before designRoute walk, site assessment and services located. The cheapest place to solve a problem is on paper.
- Documented outputsSurvey report, design pack, test results and as-built record — you keep all of it.
- Tested, not assertedOptical, RF and failover testing with results handed over at acceptance.
- Managed afterwardsMonitoring, preventive maintenance, spares and change control under an agreed service tier.
Scope
From trench to NOC
Infrastructure work fails in the details: a wayleave that arrives late, a tower foundation in the wrong soil, a cable route that nobody surveyed. We plan for those details in the design stage, because they are cheap to fix on paper and expensive to fix on site.
Microwave backhaul
Point-to-point links where fibre is impractical — across a river, over a ridge, or into a district with no duct. Path engineering and spectrum coordination handled.
Path designLicensingAlignment
Tower, mast and site works
Foundations, erection, shelter, earthing and lightning protection, fencing and access. Site works documented as an asset, not just completed.
Civil worksSheltersEarthing
Data-centre and server-room fit-out
Racks, structured cabling, power distribution, cooling, environmental monitoring and access control for a room that has to stay up.
PowerCoolingMonitoring
Structured cabling and campus distribution
Copper and optical cabling for offices, campuses and industrial parks, including testing, labelling and documentation to a standard your IT team can maintain.
Cat 6AOM4 fibreLabelling
Managed network operations
Monitoring, preventive maintenance, fault attendance and change control for infrastructure we built or inherited, under an agreed service tier.
NOC viewPPM scheduleChange control
Delivery method
Five stages, with the client sign-off named
Every stage ends in a document you keep. That is deliberate — infrastructure assets outlive the project that created them, and the next engineer needs the record.
STAGE 01
Survey
Route walk, site assessment, soil and structural notes, existing services located and recorded.
Output: survey report + risk registerSTAGE 02
Design
Route drawings, equipment schedule, power and cooling sizing, permits and wayleaves identified.
Output: design pack + bill of materialsSTAGE 03
Build
Civil works, cable laying, tower or mast erection, equipment installation and power integration.
Output: progress reports + as-built markupsSTAGE 04
Commission
Optical and RF testing, end-to-end service verification, redundancy and failover exercised.
Output: test results + acceptance certificateSTAGE 05
Handover
As-built documentation, asset register, spares list and operator training.
Output: handover pack + training record
Operating it afterwards
Build is the easy part
Most infrastructure disappointment is not a construction failure. It is a maintenance failure — an asset with no owner, no spares and no record of how it was configured.
What managed operations covers
- Monitoring. Link, power and environmental alarms collected into a single view, with thresholds agreed with you rather than set by us.
- Preventive maintenance. Scheduled inspection of routes, towers, shelters and power systems, with findings reported even when nothing is wrong.
- Corrective response. Fault attendance under the service tier you have purchased, with a named escalation path and incident records you can audit.
- Spares and consumables. A stocked spares position appropriate to the asset base, agreed at handover so that a single failed component does not idle a site.
- Change control. Modifications to a live network documented and reversible, with notification periods that fit your operational calendar.
Subcontracting and local capacity
Civil and rigging works are frequently delivered with vetted local subcontractors. Where that happens we remain the single contracting party: the subcontractor works to our method statement and our quality gate, and the accountability to you does not change.
FAQ
Questions we are asked in procurement
Answers written for the people who have to defend the decision internally.
Do you build with your own crews?
We use a core of eLON engineers for design, commissioning and network work, and vetted Ethiopian subcontractors for civil, rigging and bulk cabling. Subcontractors work to our method statements and are subject to our quality gate, and eLON remains the single party accountable to you.
Who obtains wayleaves and permits?
We prepare and submit the applications, and we keep you informed of any dependency that needs your authority as a licence holder. Permitting is the single most common source of schedule slip on infrastructure work, so it is tracked as a named item with a date from the first week rather than discovered mid-build.
What do we receive at handover?
An as-built documentation set, the asset register, test results, the spares position, and operator training with a record of who attended. The intent is that a new engineer can maintain the asset without calling us — even though most clients choose to keep us on a support agreement anyway.
Can you take over infrastructure a previous contractor built?
Yes, subject to a condition survey. We will tell you honestly what is reusable, what is at risk and what we would not warrant, and you get that in writing before you commit to a support agreement.
How is an infrastructure programme priced?
From the survey and the bill of materials, as a delivery price with defined scope and exclusions. We do not quote a per-kilometre or per-site figure blind, because the civil cost varies so much by ground conditions and access. Where a fixed price is required for a tender, we will build the contingency into the scope discussion rather than hide it.
Next step
Bring us the problem, not a specification.
The most useful first conversation is a technical one: what has to work, by when, and what has already been tried. We will tell you plainly whether it is something we should be doing.
Technical first responseA qualified engineer reviews your requirement before anyone calls you.
Written scopeYou receive a documented approach, assumptions and exclusions you can circulate internally.
Local channelsReach us on phone, WhatsApp, Telegram or email — whichever your team already uses.
One point of accountabilityOne contract and one escalation path across connectivity, identity and AI.