Graybeard Solutions

System Specialist services, performed by actual system specialists

At Graybeard Solutions we’ve learnt our lessons the hard way, by actually doing the work and solving the problems ourselves. We’ve never stepped away from a project unless everyone involved was satisfied that we’ve accomplished what we set out to do. Whats more, we’ve been doing this since before Google existed. That is not to say our Google-fu is not strong, it is, because we’ve learnt through experience what questions to ask the Oracle and how to filter the signal from the noise. We also still remember what it was like to not find our solutions online – when you had to ask the old-bullets, look it up in books and catalogues or roll up your sleeves and put your thinking cap on.

All of this is not to say that we ignore the wonderful new tools at our disposal in recent years, just that we know how and when to solve old problems with new tools and skills or new problems with old tools and skills. We’ve worked with startups and century-old companies alike. We’ve worked on classified projects, proprietary projects, and open source projects. We’ve worked locally and abroad. We’ve developed software and hardware. We’ve finished projects under budget, and unfortunately some over budget. We’ve made industry friends and some enemies. We’re engineers, managers, and technicians, but above all we view ourselves as Artisans of technical work, who strive to improve our art daily.

We are Graybeards.

 
At Graybeard Solutions we have over 25 years of experience in the 
  • Procurement,
  • Installation,
  • Commissioning,
  • Fault finding and
  • Maintenance

of the following categories of equipment:

  • Extreme long-distance Microwave Radio links, VHF, UHF, SHF and Free Space Optics
  • Satellite communications, earth station hub as well as remote site
  • Various switches and routers.
  • Firewalls
  • Wi-Fi networks.
  • WAN/LAN infrastructure.
  • Fibre-optic networks
  • Network multiplexers, and accelerators
  • VOIP networks and PABX solutions
  • Telecommunications cabling.
  • Analog, Digital and IP based CCTV
  • Access control
  • UPS systems
  • -48VDC Rectifier systems
  • Inverter power systems
  • Electrical reticulation: Single-Phase, Three-Phase and DC
  • Rack-mount Servers
  • Unix, Linux, and Windows Servers
  • Virtualization and Hypervisor architectures
  • Custom Software development
  • Custom Hardware development: Mechanical and Micro-controller based.

We have successfully project managed large ICT projects with multiple contractors and tight timelines.