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Structured cabling for Houston medical practices
Slow EHR screens and dropped calls usually trace back to what is inside the walls. Tapal designs and installs Cat6 and Cat6A cabling for clinics, terminates it into a labelled patch panel, tests every run and hands you the map.
Structured cabling is the wired foundation everything else sits on: phones, workstations, printers, access points and cameras. Done once, properly, it stops being the thing you blame.
Above the ceiling
The design
We walk the space before we quote a drop
Slow EHR screens and dropped calls usually trace back to what is inside the walls. We map every room, including the cupboard the last installer invented, and design the runs around where the practice actually works.
- Room by room. Phones, workstations, printers and access points, each counted.
- Routes that make sense. Shortest clean path, not the one that was easiest on the day.
- A real scope. You see the drop count before you see the number.
Terminated and tested
The install
Labelled at both ends, tested, and handed over
Cat6 and Cat6A, terminated into a tidy patch panel, certified, and documented with a map you keep. After close or wing by wing, so rooms are back before the next clinic day.
- Certified runs. Every one tested, with the results written down.
- Clean racks. Patch panel, labels and cable management, not a nest.
- A map you own. Port to room, so the next person is not guessing either.
What you get
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01 Cat6 and Cat6AWired to every exam room, the front desk and the back office.
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02 Clean racks and patch panelsTerminated and labelled, so a change takes minutes.
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03 Every run testedCertified results, not a visual check and a shrug.
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04 A map you keepSimple documentation of what connects to what, handed over at the end.
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05 Planned as one systemPhones, workstations, printers, Wi‑Fi and cameras designed together.
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06 Scheduled around your clinicAfter close or in phases, wing by wing, around your patients.
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1We walk the spaceRoom by room, including the cupboard the last installer left behind.
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2We design the runsWhere the rack goes, how many drops each room needs, and what the Wi‑Fi and cameras will want later.
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3We install around your calendarAfter close or in phases, so rooms are back before the next clinic day.
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4We test, label and hand overCertified test results, a labelled panel and a map of every run.
Straight answers
Questions practices ask
Yes. Work happens after the last patient leaves, or in phases wing by wing, so exam rooms come back online before the next clinic day. The schedule is built around your patient calendar, not ours, and we agree it in writing before anyone turns up.
Both carry gigabit comfortably. Cat6A holds 10 gigabit over longer runs and handles interference better in a busy ceiling, which is why we use it as standard on new installs where the budget allows.
You get certified test results for every run, a labelled patch panel, and a simple map showing which port serves which room. If you ever change provider, the next person can read it.
Often yes. We test what exists, reuse what passes, and quote only for the runs that genuinely need replacing.
The rest of the stack
Every discipline runs on the same platform, billed on one invoice.
A consultation, not a sales call.
Bring your phone invoice. In fifteen minutes you get our read on what to change, what it costs, and whether moving is worth it.