Our Services

Let Higher Ground’s team of experts make your Cable Plant and Commercial 70V PA, IP Camera, and Interactive Display systems something you can count on.

With 60+ years of experience in design, installation, adds, moves, and changes; we know something about cabling and system installations.

COMMERCIAL 70V PA SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

Higher Ground installs 70V PA systems – primarily in K12 as a sub – but also able to take on projects for restaurants, private schools and office buildings. In schools we can install new systems, but also re-wire and re-tap and supplement legacy 70V system.

Products: We can work with most 70V speaker and amplifier product lines but though the pandemic project availability is king. We are familiar with JBL, Crown, QSC, Bogen, Atlas, Quam, Rockville and Pyle speakers and amps.

Radius we serve: Generally within 60 miles of Columbia.

Costs: Contact us for an estimate.

COMMERCIAL IP CAMERA SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

Higher Ground installs IP camera systems – primarily in K12 as a sub – but also able to take on projects for restaurants, private schools, office buildings, warehouse / light industrial, gas stations, and customers with aging systems. No residential.

Products: We are familiar with Vivotek, Invid and Uniview.

Radius we serve: Generally within 60 miles of Columbia.

Costs: Contact us for an estimate.

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL INSTALLATION SERVICES

Higher Ground works as an undisclosed subcontractor for primes who are awarded panel contracts – typically in schools. We are able to transport the panels up to 40 per trip from district warehouses to the schools – take down the old panels as needed, install the new panels, haul off the old panels as needed, and haul off the packaging daily. Working after school we typically schedule 14 per day per crew for wall mounts – and 20 per day per crew for carts.  We can potentially staff up to 2 crews for rush jobs.

Products: We are familiar with and primarily install Promethean, Clear Touch and Viewsonic interactive panels – and all of their various mounts. We also install panels for use as digital signage.

Radius we serve: Generally within 120 miles of Columbia.. but will discuss projects outside that radius. Obviously size matters when sending a crew out of town – so certain minimums apply.

Costs/panel: Costs are based on the scope – demo, trash, cabling requirements, transportation requirements and project size all play into consideration. Contact us for an estimate.

STRUCTURED CABLING SERVICES

Do you really want to worry about your infrastructure? A proper cable installation should be first and foremost 100% reliable, but also easy to manage as your business grows and changes. LAN administrators know this is far easier said than done, right? Let Higher Ground’s team of experts make your cable plant something you can count on. With 60+ years of experience in design, installation, adds, moves, and changes; we know something about cabling.

AS-BUILT DOCUMENTATION

It is one thing to document your own work as you do it, but it is something completely different to come in long after the fact and figure out someone elses work that is hidden in the walls, hidden above the ceiling, and buried in the ground.

LAN CABLE ANALYSIS

Will that Cat5e cable plant support 1Gbps? Reliably? Will that 62.5um fiber support 10Gbps? Did the previous installer do a proper job? Is your cable plant ready to support your business needs? Did you just adopt a legacy installation and not sure what you have? You have questions – Higher Ground has answers. Our team of veterans date back to the birth of Ethernet, DECNet, Arcnet, and Token Ring. We are loaded to the teeth with test gear – Fluke 1800s, Fluke CableIQ, Fluke Intellitone, SM/MMF test sets and Corning VLFs 400X scopes. If you have a problem you can’t solve in-house, or a bigger problem than you care to handle give us a call. We can figure it out, and make specific cost-effective recommendations you can trust.

DEMOLITION AND ABANDONED CABLE REMOVAL

Do you have a ton of cable above the ceiling you want removed but you don’t want to damage your live network? It's no problem, really. Call now to schedule a walkthrough.

Our Works

Whether you're building a new location or want to upgrade your existing infrastructure, higher ground is your one stop provider for all your cabling projects.

COMMERCIAL 70V SPEAKER PA  SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

COMMERCIAL 70V SPEAKER PA  SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

COMMERCIAL 70V SPEAKER PA  SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

COMMERCIAL 70V SPEAKER PA  SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

COMMERCIAL 70V SPEAKER PA  SYSTEMS AND INSTALLATION

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

COMMERCIAL ACTIVE PANEL  INSTALLATION SERVICES

Jonathon cablemap testing the WiFi on the plant floor at IPG

Byron on 45’ JLG Lift dropping the cable into IDF1 at IPG

Ortronics / Superior Essex install at AG First

Single Mode terminates at Midlands Tech

50um Terminations in Cherokee County

Directional point to point Exterior Cisco Access Point – York County Schools

Omnidirectional Exterior Cisco Access Point – York County Schools

Hubbell install at USC – dressed by Jimmy Rowe

Dressed Cat6 cable at USC

Dressed Cat6 cable at USC

Dressed Cat6 Essex at AG First

Messagenet sign install at SCSDB

18K FT Superior Essex

Dressed and randomized

Dressed terminations at AG First – work by Jimmy Rowe

Projects

A few recent projects completed by Higher Ground over the last twelve months:

Schools and School Districts

• Tone/test/repair/re-label/document 80 legacy drops, pull/terminate new Cat6 WAP drops and Cat6A backbone drops for Glenforest School, West Columbia SC.

• Pull/terminate 50um fibers to connect data racks in district server room for Cherokee County Schools, SC

• Relocate 1642 PCs from PC labs to storage areas (in 4 days) in Richland School District 1, SC

• Pull/terminate 500 new Cat6 WAP drops, document legacy WAPs, mount new WAPs - Sumter County Schools, SC

• Pull/terminate 150 new Cat6 WAP drops, document legacy WAPs, mount new WAPs - Hampton School District 2, SC

• Pull/terminate 180 new Cat6 WAP drops, document legacy WAPs, mount new WAPs - Clarendon School District 1, SC

• Pull/terminate 300 new Cat6 WAP drops, document legacy WAPs, mount new WAPs - Cherokee County Schools, SC

• Mount/document 1000 new WAPs - Richland Schools District 1, SC

• Pull/terminate 30 new Cat6 drops, Mount 30 POE IP cameras – Lugoff Elgin High School, Elgin, SC

• Mount Directional WAPs to bridge stadiums and outbuildings for all Chester County Schools, SC

Business and Corporate

• Tone/test/label/document 90 legacy network drops, pull/terminate 40 new Cat6 network drops - Blair Cato Pickren Casterline, Attorneys, Columbia, SC

• Demolish legacy cable, pull/terminate 30 new network drops – QTC Management, West Columbia , SC

• Demolish 120 legacy network drops, pull 140 new Cat6 network drops, 50 WAP drops on plant floor - Intertape Polymer Group, Columbia, SC

• Pull/terminate 800 Cat6 drops and 50um fiber backbones for 4 floors of Bank of America Tower - AG First, Columbia, SC

Government

• Terminate 160 Cat6 Network Drops – Ft Jackson, Columbia, SC

• Pull/dress 35 new Banana cables for Access Control – DHEC : Hayne Lab, Columbia, SC

• Pull/terminate 80 new Cat6 drops, pull/terminate 3 @ 50um fiber OSP, Mount 80 IP/POE Cameras - McCrady Army National Guard Training Center, Columbia, SC

• Demolish legacy cable, pull 120 new Cat6 network drops – Departmen of Motor Vehicles, Rock Hill, SC

• Pull/dress 30 new Banana cables for Access Control - Department of Motor Vehicles / Department of Public Safety, Blythewood, SC

• Demolish legacy cable, pull/terminate 300 Cat6 drops and SMF backbones for 2 floors at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

About Us

Our team of veterans date back to the birth of Ethernet, DECNet, Arcnet and Token Ring.

With 60+ years of experience in design, installation, adds, moves and changes we know something about cabling and commercial system installations.

Our lead panel tech worked as an educator in VA and has a gift for working with educators and district staff – speaking their language so to speak – helping us better understand the clients’ specific needs. This helps win their trust and assistance on occasion, in turn helping our projects run smoothly. Before the project starts, we define the scope of work with the prime contractor, type up a MS Word table for locations where the panels go, confirm and refine the scope with the client; and then we start. A well-defined scope eliminates 99% of the problems before they start. We also like to know exactly who is the decision maker for questions and issues that may come up... and who is project lead with the district.Typically, we work with the district IT director and the local school techs as we move through a project. Our lead tech logs the work as it is completed – and tracks the loose ends. Our lead tech texts the work in progress to our back office at the end of business. This info is typed up and emailed out before day break the following day including the updated work schedule. WIP reports go out daily – it is standard procedure.This ability leaves a strong history of happy repeat customers.

Get in Touch

Higher Ground, LLC
(803) 513-5896
john@hgwt.net