Most businesses run on infrastructure nobody has looked at honestly in years — cabling of unknown quality, a comms room nobody opens, WiFi that's "fine" until it isn't. An IT audit replaces assumptions with evidence: tested, measured, photographed, and reported in plain English with the fixes ranked by what actually matters.
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Pre-lease due diligence, a provider handover, or just the overdue honest look — tell us the site and the reason, and Chris will come back with a fixed audit price. Prefer to talk? Call 0412 853 618.
The infrastructure under a business accumulates silently: cabling from three tenancies ago, a switch nobody remembers buying, WiFi that grew one access point at a time, and documentation that stopped matching reality during the previous government. None of it is visible from a desk — which is why infrastructure surprises always arrive as emergencies.
An IT audit from Unified Network Solutions is the scheduled version of that discovery — the same truths, learned calmly, at a fraction of the emergency's price. We assess the physical and network layers with instruments: cabling sample-tested against its claimed category, comms rooms photographed and mapped, WiFi coverage measured, power protection load-tested, and the network's architecture reviewed by people who design networks for a living. The output is a plain-English report with the evidence attached and the risks ranked by consequence. ACMA Open Cabler #42489, fixed prices, and no scare tactics — some audits come back saying "you're in good shape," and we consider those wins too.
The layers a software-checklist audit never touches — because they're physical, and we're the physical-layer trade.
Sample certification testing of installed runs against the category they're claimed to be — the difference between "it's Cat6" and "it tests as Cat6" is often the audit's biggest finding.
The real state of cabinets and frames: capacity, heat, dressing, labelling, and what's actually connected to what — photographed and mapped as found.
Coverage and congestion measured across the site — dead zones, channel chaos, and capacity pinch points made visible on a heat map instead of debated in meetings.
UPS units load-tested (most fail silently years before anyone checks), PoE budgets totalled against connected loads, and single points of failure flagged.
The network's logical shape reviewed: flat networks that should be segmented, guest access that isn't isolated, growth bottlenecks already visible in the topology.
Whatever records exist, verified against the physical truth — and where there are none (usual), the audit's mapping becomes the first honest documentation the site has had.
Nobody books an it audit for fun. These are the moments Brisbane businesses actually commission an infrastructure assessment — and what the network audit saves in each case.
Doubling headcount or adding a shift? The network assessment shows whether the infrastructure scales or snaps — and prices the upgrade while it's still a plan instead of an outage.
The outage that almost happened, the switch that died at 4pm Friday — the post-incident audit finds the rest of the fleet's weak points before they take their turn.
An infrastructure health check turns the IT line item from a guess into a plan: what genuinely needs spending this year, what's fine, and what the deferral actually risks.
Pre-lease and pre-purchase site audits — the due diligence that turns "fully cabled tenancy" from a listing claim into a verified fact (or a negotiating point).
The independent baseline at MSP handover — the new crew starts with a map, the old crew gets judged fairly, and you stop paying for rediscovery.
Increasingly, insurers and auditors ask whether infrastructure is professionally maintained and documented. The audit is the evidence — registered-cabler compliance included.
Every commercial lease is also an infrastructure purchase — you're inheriting the premises' cabling, comms room, and connectivity situation for the term, sight unseen. Building inspections check the roof and the wiring; nobody checks whether the "fully cabled" tenancy's runs actually pass certification, whether the comms cupboard can hold a modern network without cooking it, or what the NBN technology at the address really supports.
A pre-lease it audit and site health check answers all of it in a couple of hours: reusable cabling identified (and the recabling bill estimated where it isn't), the comms room's honest capacity, connectivity options verified, and the fitout's network costs known before you negotiate. Tenants who walk in with this evidence negotiate incentives from strength; tenants who skip it fund their discoveries personally after the bond's paid. We've produced pre-lease reports that paid for themselves a hundred times over in renegotiated terms — and one or two that simply said "sign it, the infrastructure's a gift," which is worth knowing too.
Property buyers and incoming building managers get the same diligence at building scale — including the MDF audit that tells you whether the building's distribution frame is an asset or a decade of deferred maintenance wearing a padlock.
Changing MSPs or IT providers is when infrastructure truth matters most — and when neither party can be its neutral source.
The incoming provider gets a map. Instead of billing you for months of discovery, the new MSP starts with documented reality: what's installed, what's tested, what's fragile. Onboarding gets faster and cheaper, and you pay for it once instead of forever.
The outgoing provider gets fairness. An independent baseline separates what they actually left from what later gets blamed on them — which keeps handovers civil and references honest.
You get the asset. The documentation belongs to the business, not the provider — so the next transition, whenever it comes, starts from the same map. Infrastructure knowledge stops walking out the door with each contract.
An it audit that ends at a PDF is half a service. Ours ranks every finding by real-world consequence — the marginal cabling feeding your main access point matters; the untidy but functional cabinet can wait — and attaches honest costs, so the report reads as a prioritised plan rather than a guilt trip.
Then you choose, with no pressure built into the document. Some clients hand the report to their IT provider or another contractor — it's deliberately written to be actionable by anyone, with the test evidence included and nothing held hostage. Many have us do the remediation, since the team that found the issues is already holding the map: comms room remediation, recabling, WiFi fixes, UPS refreshes, and the documentation kept current as the work lands.
Either way, the audit's job is the same: by the last page of the network audit, nothing about your infrastructure is a surprise waiting for the worst possible Tuesday — and the next audit, years from now, starts from this one's baseline instead of zero.
Pre-lease, handover, growth planning, or general unease — the audit's reason shapes its depth, and the fixed price reflects exactly that scope.
A half-day for most single sites: comms rooms mapped and photographed, cabling sample-tested, WiFi measured, power checked — without disrupting the work day.
Findings with evidence, risks ranked by consequence, recommendations with honest costs — delivered within a week, walked through on a call if you want it.
DIY it, hand it to your provider, or have us remediate — the report works for all three, and audit cost typically credits into remediation we perform.
Because an infrastructure audit is only as good as the auditor's ability to test infrastructure.
We install and certify this infrastructure daily — ACMA Open Cabler #42489 — so the audit findings come from trade knowledge and instruments, not a clipboard template.
Findings ranked by genuine consequence, costs stated honestly, and "this part is actually fine" said out loud when it's true. The report's job is clarity, not a sales funnel.
White-label audits for IT providers, onboarding baselines for new client sites, and reports formatted so your tools and ours agree on reality.
“We genuinely didn't know if our problem was the cabling, the WiFi or just old gear. UNS came out, tested things and gave us a straight answer about what was worth replacing and what wasn't. We ended up spending less than we'd budgeted, on the right things. Hard to fault that.”
A physical infrastructure audit for a typical single-site Brisbane business — comms room, cabling sample-tested, WiFi measured, documentation reviewed, written report — usually runs $600–$1,500 depending on site size and depth. Multi-site and building-wide audits are quoted to scope. If remediation work follows with us, part of the audit typically credits into it. Call Chris on 0412 853 618.
The physical and network layers most audits skip: the comms room's real state, cabling tested against its claimed category, switch and PoE capacity versus actual load, WiFi coverage measured, UPS batteries load-tested, documentation verified against reality, and compliance items (registered-cabler work, AS/CA S009) checked. It's an infrastructure audit by people who build infrastructure — not a software licence checklist.
Strongly yes — it's the cheapest due diligence you'll buy. An hour or two on site tells you whether the existing cabling is reusable or rubbish, whether the comms room can support your operation, what the NBN/connectivity situation really is, and what the fitout will genuinely cost. Tenants who audit before signing negotiate from evidence; tenants who don't discover the recabling bill after the bond's paid.
No — and we're straight about the boundary. Our audit covers physical infrastructure and network architecture: cabling, comms rooms, WiFi, hardware, segmentation, documentation. Cybersecurity auditing (policies, endpoints, identity, threat posture) is a different discipline done by security specialists, often using our infrastructure findings as their physical-layer input. We'll tell you which questions belong to which trade.
It's the ideal moment. An independent audit at handover establishes the true state of the infrastructure before the new provider takes responsibility — what works, what's fragile, what's undocumented. The incoming MSP starts with a map instead of archaeology, the outgoing one's work is assessed fairly, and disputes about "who left it like this" end before they start.
A plain-English report with evidence: what we found (photos, test results, measurements), what it means (risks ranked by real-world consequence, not alarmism), and what to do (prioritised recommendations with honest costs). Plus the raw artefacts — cable test results, coverage maps, port maps — which are yours regardless of who does any follow-up work.
Yes — auditing is observation and measurement, not surgery. Testing is non-disruptive (live identification methods, sample certification of spare runs), the comms room work is quiet, and anything that would briefly interrupt a service gets scheduled or skipped per your call. Most single-site audits are a half-day visit your team barely notices — the loudest part is usually the comms room door opening for the first time in years.
We service Brisbane CBD, North Brisbane, South Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Moreton Bay, Redlands, and the wider South East Queensland region. For larger projects, we can service regional Queensland by arrangement.
Network audits, infrastructure assessments, and site health checks across Brisbane CBD and metro, Logan, Ipswich, Redlands, Moreton Bay, the Gold Coast, and the Sunshine Coast — pre-lease due diligence, MSP handovers, growth planning, and the long-overdue honest look at whatever's humming in that cupboard nobody opens. Single sites, multi-site portfolios, and building-scale assessments all quoted fixed from the scope. Fixed prices, instrument-backed findings, and reports that tell you the truth either way.
Book the audit — half a day on site, a report with evidence, and an infrastructure picture with no surprises left in it. Whatever prompted the question — the lease, the handover, the near miss, or the nagging feeling — the answer is measurable, and measuring it is what we do.
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