When power drops at an exchange, an equipment room runs hot, or an unmanned tower site is breached at night, you do not lose convenience. You lose uptime, and sometimes the site itself. Yakkaservices designs, integrates, tests and supports the building systems behind your telecommunication estate under one contract: the network, physical security, environmental control, and clean-agent fire protection for your equipment rooms to NFPA 2001 (2022). You get one team accountable for how they work together, and for the certificates your fire and safety inspector asks to see.
Yakkaservices integrates the building and safety systems behind a telecommunication facility. Here is where that work fits, and where it does not.
When a site or an estate needs several systems designed, integrated, and certified together, and when one team is accountable for how they work as a whole.
If you need to replace one system on its own, a single CCTV run or one fire panel, a focused specialist contractor will often do it faster. That is the right call, and we will tell you when it is.
If you are buying transmission and switching equipment, base-station radios, or a network management platform that runs your traffic, that is your active network, and you want a telecommunication equipment vendor or systems house. We design the cabling, security, environment and fire systems that sit around that equipment, not the equipment that carries your calls and data.
Your network runs every hour of every day. When a power feed trips, a room overheats, or a link fails, the service behind it degrades, and the cost shows up as lost availability and, on many contracts, service-level penalties. Your building systems carry that load quietly, which is why a fault is easy to miss until customers feel it.
A room full of switching and transmission gear runs hot, packs power into a small space, and cannot be put out with a sprinkler without ruining what it protects. It needs early smoke detection, clean-agent suppression that leaves no residue, and cooling that holds temperature and humidity in a tight band, around the clock.
Exchanges are staffed. Tower and base-station sites usually are not. A cut fence, a stolen battery bank, a siphoned diesel tank, or an open door at 3am has to reach the right person live, because there is no one on site to notice. That only works when access control, CCTV, intrusion and environmental sensors report to one platform, not five that were installed separately.
Every exchange, tower site and operations room in your estate rides on the same physical infrastructure. We design, integrate and certify these six systems so they work together as one connected facility, not just alongside each other.
Every system on a telecommunication site rides the same cabling: management data, CCTV, access control, and the links between your equipment rooms. We design and certify the copper and fibre to TIA-568-D (2018) and ISO/IEC 11801:2017, run for the heat and distance of a real site, with the resilience that keeps monitoring and security online when a switch or a link fails.
ICT infrastructureAn exchange has server halls, battery rooms and a cable vault that each need a different rule about who gets in. Access control and CCTV let you set those rules by room, role and shift, log every entry, and watch the perimeter and gates. For unmanned tower sites, after-hours lock-down and tamper logic is designed in, not added after a theft.
ELV systemsBeyond the camera, a site needs to know when a fence is cut, a cabinet is opened, a room overheats, or a battery bank floods. Intrusion, door-tamper and environmental sensors feed the same platform, so an alarm reaches the right engineer on the right device, and a hot room or a leak is caught before it takes the site down.
ELV systemsEquipment rooms fail when they run hot, and they run hot the moment cooling drifts. The building management system controls precision cooling, ventilation and power, holds temperature and humidity in band, and shows you the trend by room. Built on BACnet and Modbus, and reported to ISO 50001 so energy is measured, not assumed.
Building management systemA fire in an equipment room spreads through cable and plastic, and water would finish the job the fire started. Very early smoke detection triggers alarm and clean-agent suppression to NFPA 2001 (2022) and NFPA 72 (2022), sized to flood the room and leave no residue on your equipment, with the commissioning evidence the fire authority asks for.
Fire & life safety systemsYour operations team watches the whole estate from one room. We build the operations centre it works in: the video wall, the console and KVM layout, structured cabling to every position, and the briefing and meeting-room AV around it, so alarms from every site land in front of the people who act on them.
AV solutionsFour failures that appear at commissioning or after handover. Each one is preventable at design stage.
The detection passes on its own, the clean-agent cylinders pass on their own, and nobody runs them together with the room dampers and door releases until the fire authority does. On a telecommunication site that means a failed fire NOC on cause-and-effect, and an energisation date that slips while you re-test. We have been called to sites where the alarm sounded but the ventilation kept feeding the room and the agent would have vented straight out.
A failed fire NOC inspection, and a go-live date that slips while you re-test.
A written cause-and-effect matrix agreed early, then a full integrated test of detection, agent release, dampers and doors before the authority visits, not during it.
A building management system that shows one room temperature tells you it is warm now, not that a cooling unit is drifting toward an alarm you could have prevented. In a packed equipment room, the gap between comfortable and thermal shutdown is short, and a total on a screen does not close it.
A thermal shutdown that takes equipment, and the service on it, offline.
Per-room temperature and humidity trends with alarms on rate of change, so a drifting cooling unit raises a warning while you still have time to act.
Cameras and readers on a tower site log everything and alert no one, so a cut fence, a stolen battery bank or a siphoned diesel tank is only found on the next site visit. By then the site may already be down, and the playback only tells you when it happened.
A theft or an outage found on the next site visit, not the moment it happened.
Design the alarm and escalation rules first, so a breach or a power fault at any site reaches the right person live, then commission against real response targets.
Cutting over a network, or pulling new containment through a working exchange without a phasing plan, drops service at the wrong time. The result is an outage you booked yourself, and a team working around your contractor instead of running the network.
A self-inflicted outage, and staff working around a contractor instead of running the network.
A phased plan agreed with your operations team, cutovers scheduled into maintenance windows, and a tested fallback for anything the live service depends on.
On a telecommunication site, the systems are only as good as the points where they meet. None of that happens by accident. It happens because the interfaces were drawn at design stage and tested before handover.
When one team designs and commissions all of it under a single contract, those interfaces are one team's responsibility. When each system is a separate contract, the gaps between them belong to no one, until the day they fail.
Compliance is easier to judge when you can see it by system. Here is what each system we deliver is designed, tested and approved against. Every tab carries authority approval and test certification at handover.
Structured cabling and the data backbone that carries every system on the site, designed for a telecommunication environment and for growth.
Across all of them, you receive the evidence at handover: test certificates, the fire cause-and-effect matrix, environmental monitoring verified against design, and as-built drawings.
The questions network owners, project teams, and consultants ask before they specify.
Tell us about your telecommunication project and a senior engineer reviews it with you, then sets out what your systems need and where the risks are.
Response within one business day. No cost, no obligation.
