Enterprise network engineering, not just wireless.
WiFi Hotshots is an enterprise network engineering firm delivering ten disciplines on one bench: wireless, campus LAN, data center fabric, SD-WAN, SASE, network security, unified communications, structured cabling, AI-ready infrastructure, and validation. Every enterprise network engineering engagement is priced as a fixed-fee SOW, scoped by a multi-CCIE engineer, and carries 25 years of enterprise networking leadership.
Multi-CCIE engineering bench
Ekahau ECSE on every engagement
Fixed-fee SOW — no T&M surprises
25 years of enterprise networking leadership
Multi-CCIE
Bench — R&S, Wireless, Security, Data Center
25
Years of enterprise networking leadership
100%
Fixed-fee SOW — no T&M billing
ECSE
On every wireless engagement
MBE
Minority-owned, Valencia-headquartered
Our enterprise network engineering bench designs and delivers enterprise Wi-Fi, campus LAN refresh, data center fabric, SD-WAN and SASE fabric, network security architecture, unified communications migration, structured cabling, AI-ready infrastructure, independent validation, and managed services with a 24×7 NOC. Every enterprise network engineering discipline runs from the same bench — no subcontracting of engineering, no handoffs mid-project, no hourly billing.
Ten enterprise network engineering disciplines, one bench
Most enterprise network engineering firms stitch a network together from a wireless vendor, a security vendor, a cabling sub, and a reseller’s design team. We do the whole stack on one bench, and we scope the whole enterprise network engineering stack as one fixed-fee SOW.
Wireless & Wi-Fi Design
Predictive enterprise network engineering — Ekahau design, AP-on-a-stick validation, and Wi-Fi 6E / Wi-Fi 7 migrations on Cisco Catalyst 9800, Meraki, Aruba, Mist, and Ruckus. ECSE engineer on every survey.
Campus LAN
Catalyst 9300/9500 and Aruba CX refresh with StackWise Virtual, VSX, and multicast-aware fabric for hybrid cloud campuses. Fixed-fee SOW per building.
Data Center Fabric
Nexus 9000 VXLAN/EVPN, Arista EOS, and Cisco ACI fabric design, migration, and cutover engineered by multi-CCIE DC specialists.
SD-WAN + SASE
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela), Meraki MX, Prisma SASE, and Zscaler ZIA/ZPA fabric design with defined cutover runbooks. No hourly billing.
Network Security
Palo Alto PA-Series, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall, and ISE/ClearPass segmentation — engineered, not just installed, by CCIE Security bench.
Unified Communications
Webex Calling, CUCM, and contact center migrations — legacy TDM cutover, SIP trunk design, and QoS validation under a fixed-fee SOW.
Structured Cabling
Cat 6A, OM4/OM5 fiber, and MPO backbone to BICSI and TIA-568 standards — RCDD-led design, licensed low-voltage install partners.
AI-Ready Infrastructure
GPU-cluster networking, 400 GbE spine-leaf, RoCEv2 lossless fabric, and power/cooling readiness for AI workloads. CCIE DC + multi-platform bench.
Validation + Testing
Independent post-install validation: Ekahau heatmaps, iperf throughput baselines, roam traces, and packet-capture reports. We validate other firms’ deployments too.
Managed Services + NOC
24×7 monitoring, change windows, and firmware lifecycle management across Cisco, Aruba, Meraki, Mist, Palo Alto, and Fortinet — co-managed or fully outsourced.
Send us the scope. We’ll send back a fixed-fee SOW.
Floor plans, switch inventory, vendor list, pain points — whatever you have. We’ll return a defined fixed-fee SOW within three business days of a scoping call, reviewed by a Ekahau ECSE engineer on wireless scopes and a multi-CCIE engineer on wired and fabric scopes.
Wireless enterprise network engineering, vertical by vertical
Wireless is the bench’s deepest discipline — every vertical changes the RF and the compliance posture, and our wireless engineering pages go technical on each one. Pick the environment that matches yours.
Higher Education Wi-Fi
Classroom / dorm / library density, eduroam EAP-TLS with RADIUS hierarchy, outdoor 6 GHz AFC daily refresh, and GLBA-compliant MFA on the controller admin plane.
Hospitality Guest Wi-Fi
In-room wall-plate APs (Ruckus H350/H550, Mist AP43), Passpoint / Hotspot 2.0 zero-touch, mDNS gateway for cast/AirPlay, PCI DSS 4.0.1 quarterly rogue AP detection.
Aerospace Industrial Wi-Fi
Heavy-duty hangar RF (Catalyst IW9167E/IH), TDWR 35 km rule and 5600-5650 MHz exclusion, FIPS 140-3 validated crypto, NIST 800-171 r3 / CMMC Level 2 boundary.
Retail Multi-Site Wi-Fi
1,000-branch template rollouts, Zebra MC9400 scanner roaming, camera-VLAN zero-E-W to CDE (Target 2013 lesson), PCI DSS annual segmentation pentest.
Government + Finance Wi-Fi
CJIS v6.0 FIPS-validated crypto, NY DFS § 500.12 universal MFA, trading-floor multicast with IGMP snooping + multicast-to-unicast, SCIF-adjacency RF hygiene.
Healthcare Clinical Wi-Fi
Voice-grade −65 dBm coverage, RTLS-ready perimeter AP placement, HIPAA-segmented VLANs on clinical floors, voice-quality validation at the bedside.
Warehouse + 3PL Wi-Fi
Aisle-bisecting antennas, Zebra/Honeywell scanner roaming, 802.11r sub-50 ms roam for WMS, rack-top coverage for conveyor-line diagnostics.
Casino + Gaming Wi-Fi
Slot-floor AP density, PCI-DSS-segmented POS, sportsbook handheld roaming, and gaming-commission surveillance separation on isolated fabric.
K-12 Classroom Wi-Fi
One AP per classroom, E-rate-eligible design, Chromebook-fleet density at 1:1 device ratios, district-wide template rollouts.
Wi-Fi 7 Enterprise Deployment
MLO-ready AP selection, 6 GHz AFC coordination, 320 MHz channel planning, and deterministic low-latency flows for realtime applications.
Southern California enterprise network engineering dispatch
Headquartered in Valencia with engineering dispatch across the SoCal corridor, we walk sites, pull cables, and commission fabric on schedules that assume driving distance matters. Same-week onsite is common inside the counties below.
Valencia HQ — engineering dispatch from Santa Clarita
Outside Southern California, we run national rollouts — retail, healthcare, logistics — through vetted regional engineering partners, managed from Valencia with WFHS engineers on critical cutovers.
Why enterprises choose WiFi Hotshots for enterprise network engineering
Fixed-fee SOW instead of T&M
Enterprise network engineering priced by the hour rewards slow work. We price every engagement as a fixed-fee SOW against a defined deliverable — heatmap, cutover runbook, validated coverage report, or commissioned fabric. Scope creep is handled by a separate change order, not a surprise invoice. Procurement teams get a locked number; engineers get a locked scope.
The bench is named, not sublet
Every engagement is led by an engineer on our payroll. The bench carries multi-CCIE (R&S, Wireless, Security, Data Center), Ekahau ECSE, BICSI RCDD, CWNE, and PMP credentials. Surveys are always walked by an ECSE-certified engineer with a Sidekick 2 — not a junior with a laptop and an assumption. Multi-vendor work is executed by engineers who hold the certs on each platform, not generalists guessing their way through release notes.
25 years of enterprise networking leadership
Leadership carries 25 years of enterprise networking — trading floors, hospital multi-campus rollouts, Fortune 100 headquarters, K-12 districts, national retail footprints, and tribal gaming floors. That tenure shapes scope calls: we’ve already seen the edge cases your RFP is silently describing, and we design for them before they bite the cutover.
Vendor-agnostic, minority-owned
We are vendor-agnostic by contract, not by marketing copy — meaning the design recommends what the environment actually needs, not what a distributor’s SPIF sheet rewards. WiFi Hotshots is a minority-owned firm headquartered in Valencia, California, with Southern California dispatch and nationwide rollout capability through regional engineering partners.
Start your scope call with a named engineer.
A Customer Success Manager triages your inbound within one business day and routes you to the right bench — wireless, campus LAN, data center, or multi-discipline. Floor plans, switch inventory, controller config, or a rough sketch all work as a starting point.
Frequently asked questions
What services does WiFi Hotshots offer?
Ten disciplines on one engineering bench: wireless site survey and design, campus LAN refresh, data center fabric, SD-WAN and SASE, network security architecture, unified communications migration, structured cabling, AI-ready infrastructure, independent validation and testing, and managed services with a 24×7 NOC. We scope each discipline as a fixed-fee SOW, and we run multi-discipline engagements — for example, a campus refresh that touches wireless, LAN, and security simultaneously — under a single master SOW to keep interfaces clean between work streams.
Who owns the engineering — employees or subcontractors?
Every design and commissioning engineer is on the WiFi Hotshots payroll. Onsite hands-on cabling and lift work on large jobs may be executed by licensed low-voltage partners under our supervision, but the engineering intellectual work — the design, the validation, the cutover plan, the as-built — is always done by WFHS engineers named in the SOW. Our multi-CCIE, ECSE, BICSI RCDD, CWNE, and PMP credentials sit inside the bench, not on a partner’s resume. If a subcontractor will touch the work, they are named in the SOW before you sign.
How fast is a scope call? When do I get an SOW back?
Scope calls are typically available within one business day of inbound. On that call we ask for floor plans (PDF or AutoCAD), switch and AP inventory, existing controller config, pain points, and deadline constraints. If the scope is well-defined, a fixed-fee SOW comes back within three business days of a scoping call. Larger multi-site or multi-discipline engagements — national retail rollouts, multi-campus healthcare — take longer, usually one to two weeks, because the SOW itself has to scope phasing, change-control, and partner coordination before we lock the number.
What does “fixed-fee SOW” actually mean?
A defined scope priced to a single locked number, delivered to a defined set of deliverables. No hourly billing, no time-and-materials, no meter running while the engineer is waiting for facility access. Scope is written down explicitly — what is in, what is out, what the deliverable looks like on day one and on day done. If the environment requires something outside that scope — the survey finds an uncovered mezzanine, the cutover uncovers undocumented VLANs — we write a separate change order with its own fixed number. Procurement gets predictability; engineering gets clarity; nobody gets a surprise invoice.
Do you sell through VARs and partners, or direct only?
Both. We work direct with end clients, and we work under white-label and co-delivery agreements with VARs, MSPs, and integrators who need engineering depth their bench doesn’t carry. Under partner arrangements, we execute the engineering scope and the partner retains the client relationship and hardware margin — our job is to deliver the work on time and to spec. See our partner program for co-delivery frameworks. We do not compete against partners on hardware; we are vendor-agnostic by contract and do not resell network equipment.
What geographies do you serve?
Headquartered in Valencia, California, with direct engineering dispatch across Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, the San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley, the Inland Empire, Orange County, San Diego, Palm Desert, and Bakersfield. Outside Southern California we run national rollouts — retail, healthcare, logistics, and higher education — through vetted regional engineering partners, managed by a WFHS project lead from Valencia. Critical cutovers on out-of-state engagements are flown by WFHS engineers; routine rack-and-stack is handled by regional partners under our supervision.
What credentials are on the bench?
Multi-CCIE (Routing and Switching, Wireless, Security, Data Center tracks), Ekahau ECSE (Certified Survey Engineer — on every wireless engagement), BICSI RCDD for structured cabling design, CWNE for deep wireless analysis and troubleshooting, PMP for large-program delivery, plus vendor-specific credentials across Cisco (CCNP, CCIE), Aruba (ACCP, ACMX), Juniper Mist, Palo Alto (PCNSE), and Fortinet (NSE). Credentials are held by named engineers on our payroll and named in the SOW — not aggregated at company level by counting partner certs.
Do you sell hardware?
No. We are a pure engineering services firm. Hardware procurement runs through your preferred VAR or distributor — we provide a vendor-neutral bill of materials as part of the design deliverable and will work alongside your VAR on staging, logistics, and deploy schedule. This matters because it makes us vendor-agnostic by contract: we have no margin to protect and no SPIF to chase, so the design recommends what the RF, the fabric, or the security posture actually needs.
Start with an enterprise network engineering scope call.
Floor plans, switch inventory, controller config, or just a rough sketch of what’s keeping you awake — send what you have. A WiFi Hotshots Customer Success Manager returns a fixed-fee SOW, routed to the right engineering bench, within three business days of a scoping call, or tells you honestly if the scope needs more discovery before a number is responsible to quote.

