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Independent IT expertise / San Diego + worldwide

Infrastructure your team can run without us.

Network Gears designs, builds, and hands off the identity, network, cloud, and endpoint systems your business depends on. Secured by default. Documented so your people own it.

30 minutes with an engineer. A clear next step, yours to keep.
20+years in infrastructure
80+businesses supported
45+countries delivered
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What we build

Every layer of the stack, designed to work as one.

Pick a layer. Each one is something we design, build, and document, and each one is built to fit the layers around it.

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identity and access

One login, least privilege, no shared passwords.

We stand up a single identity provider, wire every app and device to it, and set access so people get exactly what their role needs. Offboarding becomes one click instead of a scavenger hunt.

  • SSO and MFA across every SaaS app, VPN, and workstation
  • Role-based groups that drive app access and device policy
  • Automated joiner, mover, and leaver workflows
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network design

Networks that assume nothing and still stay simple.

Flat networks are how one infected laptop becomes a company-wide incident. We design segmented, Zero Trust topologies with redundancy between sites, then document them so your team can change them with confidence.

  • VLAN and firewall design with a written policy for every rule
  • Site-to-site and remote access over mesh VPN, not port forwards
  • Dual-carrier internet with automatic failover
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compute and storage

Hardware sized for where you will be in three years.

Servers, storage, racks, and power, specified and installed for high availability. We source hardware globally, build it, and leave you with a labeled rack and a diagram that matches it.

  • Server, storage, and GPU builds for AI and media workloads
  • Colocation and data center buildouts, end to end
  • Tested backups with a documented restore procedure
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cloud and migration

Cloud where it earns its keep, nowhere else.

Not everything belongs in the cloud, and not everything belongs in a closet. We plan migrations workload by workload, with cost modeling up front and compliance requirements built into the architecture.

  • On-prem to AWS or Google Cloud migrations with cutover plans
  • Infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible
  • Monthly cost review so the bill never surprises you
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devices and endpoints

A new hire opens the box and is working in twenty minutes.

Zero-touch enrollment means devices configure themselves from the moment they power on. Encryption, patching, and compliance are enforced by policy, not by reminders.

  • Mac, Windows, and mobile device management from one console
  • Disk encryption, OS updates, and app deployment by policy
  • Remote lock and wipe for lost or departing-employee devices
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security and compliance

Security is how we build, not a line item we add.

Every layer above starts secure. On top of that we handle secrets, logging, and the evidence your auditors, insurers, and enterprise customers ask for.

  • Secrets management, encryption at rest and in transit
  • Centralized logging and alerting with a response runbook
  • SOC 2, HIPAA, and cyber-insurance questionnaire support
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automation and operations

The part most firms skip: making it yours.

Every engagement ends with monitoring in place, repetitive work automated, and a runbook your team has actually used. We manage the environment if you want us to. You never have to.

  • Metrics and alerting with thresholds your team agreed to
  • Event-driven automation for onboarding, patching, and reporting
  • Network diagrams, validated configs, and runbooks at handoff
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Sketch your environment

Describe your company. Watch the architecture draw itself.

Move the sliders and flip the switches. The diagram and the recommendations update as you go. When it looks like you, send it over and we will come to the first call already knowing your shape.

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What we would propose
    Email us this sketch
    Your environment / blueprint

    Take the plan with you.

    Your architecture, recommendations, and next steps in one shareable blueprint.

    Free SVG download. No signup.

    Your infrastructure blueprint

    Your infrastructure blueprint

    The resilience lab / 01

    Break it.
    Watch it recover.

    An internet connection goes down. Does your business go with it? Cut the primary link and see what a second path changes.

    Edge network / failover
    Interactive simulation
    Primary route healthySAMPLE TOPOLOGY · NOT LIVE TELEMETRY
    A sample office with two internet connectionsTraffic travels from an office through its edge gateway and primary carrier to cloud apps. A separate backup carrier provides an alternative path. PRIMARY PATHINDEPENDENT BACKUP PATH Your officeTEAM + DEVICES GatewayROUTE CONTROL Carrier AACTIVE Carrier BSTANDBY Cloud appsWORK CONTINUES
    Primary connection
    Healthy
    Traffic route
    Carrier A
    App access
    Available
    Two carriers. Two paths. Cut the primary connection to start the simulation.

    Illustrative demo, not a recovery-time promise. Real failover depends on carrier diversity, health checks, routing, and application sessions. Turn off the backup link and run it again to see the difference.

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    Where we work

    Based in San Diego, CA. Delivered in over 45 countries.

    Local support, global reach. Multi-site rollouts, hardware procurement across borders, and continuity planning for teams that do not all sit in one building. Drag the globe, or pick a city to see a route.

      Global procurement and logistics

      Hardware sourced, shipped, and cleared through customs to wherever the rack is going.

      Standardized multi-site rollouts

      One design, deployed the same way in every office, data center, and remote site.

      Regional compliance and continuity

      Built to local regulatory requirements, with failover that keeps every region online.

      Why Network Gears

      What you get that you will not get from a managed service contract.

      Four commitments, and the practice they replace.

      hover or tap a row to flip it
      • A ticket queue and an L1 tech who escalatessupport
        The engineer who designed it is on the callsupport
      • Sized for today, rebuilt in 18 monthsarchitecture
        Sized for three years out, grow into itarchitecture
      • Security quoted later as an add-onsecurity
        Zero Trust and MFA from the first diagramsecurity
      • Undocumented, so you can never leavehandoff
        Runbooks and diagrams, your team owns ithandoff

      Senior engineers, start to finish

      The person who designs your environment is the person who builds it and hands it off. No account manager in between, no escalation ladder.

      L1 ticket queueengineer on the call

      Sized for three years out

      Every architecture is designed for where your company is going, not for the configuration that maximizes our monthly hours.

      rebuild in 18 monthsgrow into it

      Secure from the first diagram

      Zero Trust, MFA, least privilege, and encrypted endpoints are the baseline of every project, not a security add-on quoted later.

      security upsellbuilt in

      Documented so you own it

      Runbooks, network diagrams, and validated configs come with every engagement. Your team can operate what we built. Staying with us is a choice, not a dependency.

      vendor lock-inyour runbook
      How we work

      Four ways to engage. Pick the one that fits the problem.

      Every model includes documentation, validation, and a clean handoff. The difference is scope and how you pay.

      Not sure which fits? The free review ends with a recommendation, and you keep it either way.

      Start with a free 30‑minute infrastructure review.

      No pitch. A working engineer looks at your current setup, tells you in plain English what is solid and what is not, and sends you a prioritized list of fixes. If we are a fit for the work, we talk scope. If not, the list is yours.

      A working session30 minutes with an engineer, not a sales call.
      A plain-English readWhat is working, what is fragile, what is risky.
      A prioritized listRecommendations in order, yours to keep.
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