POS network
Toast, Square, Clover or Lightspeed terminals and printers on their own wired or dedicated Wi-Fi network, configured to the vendor's requirements.
Local IT · Restaurants and retail
POS network with PCI separation
Point of sale that never drops in the dinner rush — and never shares a network with the guest Wi-Fi.
A restaurant or shop runs the register, card terminals, kitchen screens, online ordering, menu boards, music and customer Wi-Fi on one small network. We separate the payment systems, make the internet survive an outage, keep the cameras recording, and set it all up so the PCI questionnaire takes an afternoon, not a week.
On site in Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Allen, Prosper, Little Elm, The Colony, Carrollton, Richardson and Dallas · remote support across Texas
What the rules and your clients expect
The requirements, and how we meet them.
| PCI DSS | Card terminals and the POS on an isolated network segment, with a firewall between them and everything else, keeps you in the simplest self-assessment category. |
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| Uptime for payments | A card terminal that cannot reach the processor is a line out the door. Automatic LTE failover is the fix, and it is cheap. |
| Guest Wi-Fi | Customer Wi-Fi fully isolated from the business network, with a captive portal if you want it, and no path to the register. |
What we set up
What we set up for restaurants and retail.
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Internet with failover
Business fiber or cable with LTE failover that takes over in seconds; the register and the kitchen never notice.
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Guest Wi-Fi
Fast, isolated and branded, with bandwidth limits so a customer's download never slows the register.
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Cameras and remote viewing
Camera systems covering registers, kitchen and back door, viewable from your phone without opening the firewall.
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Menu boards, music and kitchen screens
Digital signage, music systems and kitchen display screens on a managed network segment that survives a reboot.
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Back office
The office PC, inventory and accounting protected with MFA and backed up; online-ordering and delivery tablets managed.
Software we work with
The tools your office already runs.
We set the network up to each vendor’s published requirements and we talk to their support in their language, so you are never the go-between.
- Toast
- Square
- Clover
- Lightspeed
- Shopify POS
- 7shifts
- Restaurant365
- Olo and DoorDash tablets
- Ubiquiti and Meraki Wi-Fi
- Verkada and Ubiquiti cameras
The services behind it
Six things, done properly.
Every industry page above is built from the same six services — quoted after a free site visit, installed after hours, documented so you are never stuck with one vendor.
- Office network and Wi-FiSwitches, Wi-Fi and a network designed for your office
- Network cablingCat6, fiber, racks and patch panels — certified
- Firewall and securityBusiness firewall, VPN, backups and MFA
- Cloud migrationMicrosoft 365, Google Workspace and retiring the old server
- Internet and connectivityISP selection, failover, phones and multi-office links
- Managed IT supportHelp desk, patching, backups and monitoring, monthly
Case study
Three locations, one POS network that never drops in the dinner rush
A Frisco restaurant group with three locations shared the register, kitchen screens and guest Wi-Fi on one consumer router per store, and lost card payments whenever a guest's download peaked. We installed business firewalls with LTE failover at each site, isolated the Toast terminals and card readers on their own segment, limited and branded the guest Wi-Fi, and added cameras over each register.
Representative engagement · Frisco · 3 locations · 2026 · client name available on request
All small-office case studiesScope · 3 locations, Toast POS, 11 terminals, kitchen displays
Result · no payment outages across the first full quarter
Delivered · PCI scope statement per site, remote camera viewing, guest portal
Timeline · one morning per location, before service
Questions restaurants and retail ask
Our POS vendor said the network is the problem. Is it?
Often, yes — consumer routers, one flat network and no failover. We fix the network and coordinate with the POS vendor so neither side blames the other.
Do we need a separate internet line for the registers?
Usually not. One good business connection with LTE failover and a properly segmented network is enough for most locations.
Book the free site visit
Tell us about the office — how many people, what is slow or broken, what you are planning. A senior engineer who has set up restaurants and retail before calls the same business day to set a time.
Prefer to talk? +1 (469) 252-8666
Other offices we build for
- Accounting and CPA firmsSecure client portals and MFA
- Pharmacies and clinicsHIPAA-aligned network segmentation
- Law officesSecure remote access for attorneys
- Dental and medical practicesWired runs for X-ray and CBCT imaging
- Real estate and title officesEmail security and multi-factor login everywhere
- Plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractorsDispatch and invoicing software (ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro) set up right
- Construction and engineering officesFast wired network and file storage for drawings