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Independent Network & Fibre Audits

Evidence-led network audits, captured on-site, visible in real time.

The FX-IT Audit Platform is the on-site evidence and reporting system used on every FX-IT network and fibre infrastructure engagement — from factories and warehouses to campuses, commercial buildings, hospitals and residential estates. Geo-tagged photographs, OTDR trace capture, structured digital forms, and a live stakeholder portal — all working offline when the signal drops behind a switch room door.

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What You Get

  • Live stakeholder portal — read-only, magic-link access
  • Geo-tagged photographs against every finding
  • Native Bellcore .sor OTDR parsing & viewer
  • Full offline mode on tablet & phone
  • Immutable audit log of every action
  • Watermarked, exportable evidence packs
30+
Years Experience
120+
Network Surveys
10+
Countries Served
100%
Vendor Independent
The Platform

Purpose-built for network & fibre field work.

FX-IT engineers don't carry clipboards. Every audit, inspection and OTDR test is captured directly into the platform on a tablet or phone — structured, timestamped, geo-located, and synchronised to a workspace your stakeholders can watch live.

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Geo-tagged Evidence

Every photograph carries GPS coordinates, capture time and EXIF data. No more “where was this taken?” arguments three weeks after the site walk.

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Native OTDR Support

Bellcore .sor files upload directly from the OTDR. The platform parses wavelength, range, total loss, length and the full event list automatically.

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Full Offline Mode

Engineers pull a job to the device before walking the site. Plant rooms, basement risers, manholes, factory floors, signal black-spots — nothing breaks the data capture flow.

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Structured Digital Forms

Cabinet audits, comms-room inventories, fibre splice records, OTDR test logs, Ekahau Wi-Fi surveys, findings logs — every activity has its own form, validated on capture.

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Immutable Audit Trail

Every action is logged — who captured what, when, from which device. Findings cannot be silently edited. Defensible for governance and disputes.

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Exportable Evidence Pack

At handover, the entire workspace exports as a watermarked PDF report plus the raw photo archive, OTDR .sor files, and structured form data in CSV/JSON.

Live Stakeholder Transparency

Your stakeholders watch the audit as it happens.

From the kick-off meeting onwards, your nominated stakeholders — facilities managers, IT directors, trustees, board members or external auditors — receive a magic-link login to a read-only workspace branded for your organisation. There is no black-box handover at the end of the audit. Questions get raised and answered while the engineer is still on site.

  • Live dashboard — per-phase progress, areas covered, assets inspected
  • Interactive map or floor plan of every captured asset and finding
  • Photo gallery, OTDR trace viewer, Ekahau Wi-Fi heat-maps, document vault
  • Acknowledge findings and post questions — without altering audit data
  • Daily or weekly email digests of new findings, photos and tests
  • Watermarked PDF downloads for controlled distribution
Live Stakeholder Workspace LIVE
Silverthorn Country Estate
FTTH Audit · Job #2026-018
PhasePhase 2 — Physical Inspection
Lead engineerB. van der Merwe
StatusIn Field
Areas covered14 / 20
Assets inspected38 / 58
OTDR traces captured22
Photographs347
Findings today3 new
1 Critical 1 Major 1 Observation
Last sync · 2 minutes ago · Engineer online
Inside the Platform

Three screens. One audit. Always in sync.

Engineers capture in the field on phone and tablet. Stakeholders watch in their browser. Every photo, OTDR trace and signed-off finding flows between them in real time — and works offline when a switch room kills the signal.

audits.fx-it.co.za / silverthorn
  • Overview
  • Map & Assets
  • Findings (47)
  • OTDR Traces
  • Photos (347)
  • Documents
  • Activity
Silverthorn Country Estate
Job #2026-018
Phase 2 of 5
Jobs › Silverthorn › Overview
Audit Dashboard In Field
Areas
14/20
70% complete
Assets
38/58
+6 today
OTDR
22
2 flagged
Findings
47
3 critical

Assets & findings Phase 2

Recent activity live

BV
B. van der Merwe uploaded OTDR trace S-DJ-14.sor2 min ago · 1310nm · 1.84km
TK
T. Khumalo logged finding Cabinet C-04 — missing earth14 min ago · flagged Critical
MN
M. Naidoo (Trustee) acknowledged F-0191 hr ago
BV
B. van der Merwe added 12 photographs to Precinct 71 hr ago · geo-tagged
SM
S. Mokoena (Estate Manager) viewed Photos2 hr ago
Stakeholder dashboard Trustees, board members and facilities managers see the audit unfold — assets on the map, live activity feed, KPI roll-ups, and read-only access to every photo and OTDR trace.
OTDR Trace · S-DJ-14.sor
Cabinet C-04 → Drop 14 · 1310nm
Length1.84 km
Total loss2.3 dB
Events4
StatusFlagged
splice 1.7 dB connector
0.42km · splice 1.21km · splice 1.7 dB 1.58km · connector 1.84km · end
‹ Findings SAVE
Cabinet C-04 — missing earth
F-019 · Precinct 7 · just now
● Offline — 3 items queued
-26.0911, 28.154714:32
Critical Major Minor
Cabinet C-04
B. van der Merwe
Tablet & phone capture OTDR .sor files parse on upload and flag out-of-spec events. The findings form locks every entry to a geo-tagged photograph, an asset, an engineer and a timestamp — offline if needed.
Three Live Workspaces, Three Verticals

A healthcare Wi-Fi survey, an estate audit report, and an industrial site photo register — same platform, same workflow, different sites. Client identities anonymised.

audits.fx-it.co.za / kingfisher-mc / wi-fi
Wi-Fi Heatmap · Theatre Wing, Block C
Imported from Ekahau Pro
2.4 / 5 GHz · RSSI
-50 -65 -85 dBm
Wi-Fi heatmaps from Ekahau · healthcare Ekahau Pro .esx survey projects import directly. Floor plans, AP placements and predictive vs measured RSSI overlays render alongside the rest of the audit — no separate viewer, no re-keying coordinates.
FX-IT (Pty) Ltd
Independent Network Audit Report
Job #2026-018
Issued 02 Jun 2026
Rev 1.0 · Watermarked
Silverthorn Country Estate — FTTH & Wi-Fi Audit
Site20 Precincts
Assets58
Findings47
Critical3
1. Executive Summary

The audit covered 1.84 km of buried fibre backbone, 14 distribution cabinets and 58 dome-joint enclosures across 20 residential precincts, supplemented by an Ekahau Wi-Fi survey of the clubhouse and gatehouse. Three critical findings require resolution before the next billing cycle; nine major findings should be remediated within 90 days.

2. Top Findings
IDAssetSeverity
F-019Cabinet C-04 — missing earth bondCritical
F-021Drop 14 — splice loss 1.7 dBCritical
F-024Gatehouse AP-03 — RSSI −85 dBmMajor
F-027Dome joint DJ-22 — water ingressMajor
OTDR · S-DJ-14
Photographic evidence
FX-IT (Pty) Ltd · Edenvale · +27 87 822 1702 Page 1 of 38 · Confidential
Watermarked PDF report · residential estate One-click export from the workspace produces an A4 report — executive summary, findings register, OTDR traces, Ekahau heatmaps, and a watermarked photographic appendix. Released to stakeholders under controlled access.
Photo Gallery · Northbridge Industrial Park
512 photos · 18 today
All Critical Major Production Cell C OT Backbone
CRIT
Cell-C09:14
MAJ
Cell-C09:08
OBS
WH-211:42
MAJ
WH-211:36
CRIT
MDF13:55
OBS
MDF13:48
Filtered · Phase 3 · OT Audit Download EXIF + JSON
Geo-tagged photo evidence · industrial site Every photograph keeps its EXIF data — GPS, timestamp, device — and is locked to a finding, asset or production cell. Filter by severity, area or engineer; export the lot as an evidence pack.
Where We Audit

One platform. Every kind of network.

Whether the cabling runs between production lines, classroom blocks, hospital wards, retail floors or residential precincts, the audit discipline is the same — and the FX-IT Audit Platform handles all of it.

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Industrial & Manufacturing

Factories, warehouses, distribution centres, mines and processing plants. OT/IT segregation reviews, fibre backbone audits between production cells, ruggedised cabinet inspections, PLC network mapping.

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Commercial Buildings

Multi-tenant offices, shopping centres, hotels and mixed-use developments. Riser audits, structured cabling certification, tenant demarc verification, landlord/tenant scope clarity.

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Education Campuses

Universities, schools and training colleges. Inter-building fibre verification, dorm/classroom Wi-Fi surveys, BYOD-readiness assessments, lifecycle audits ahead of capital programmes.

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Healthcare

Hospitals, clinics and laboratories. Ward and theatre Wi-Fi reliability, medical-device VLAN segregation, redundancy and failover validation, clinical-grade documentation trails.

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Residential Estates

Golf, lifestyle and security estates. Backbone fibre condition, dome-joint and enclosure audits, OTDR baselining, ISP/operator due-diligence ahead of contract renewal.

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Government & Public Sector

Local authority offices, depots and service centres. Independent infrastructure verification, vendor-handover acceptance audits, evidence packs for procurement and audit committees.

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Telecoms & Operators

Fibre operators, ISPs and tower companies. Acquisition due-diligence, post-deployment quality verification, splice-loss audits, GIS-vs-as-built reconciliation.

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Hospitality & Retail

Hotels, lodges, restaurants and retail chains. Guest Wi-Fi performance audits, POS/network segregation reviews, multi-site portfolio assessments under one workspace.

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Sports & Event Venues

Stadiums, conference centres and arenas. High-density Wi-Fi readiness, broadcast-fibre verification, event-day capacity audits, post-event lessons-learned reporting.

What an Engagement Looks Like

Indicative engagement shapes.

FX-IT works almost exclusively under mutual non-disclosure. Below are anonymised descriptions of representative engagements — the scale, scope and outcome shapes you can expect, without identifying any client.

Why aren’t there client logos on this page?

Every FX-IT engagement runs under a reciprocal NDA. Our clients’ network topology, asset registers and audit findings are commercially sensitive — and so is the fact that they engaged us. We won’t list them publicly, and we won’t ask yours to be listed either. References are arranged privately, by phone, under reciprocal NDA at quotation stage.

Discretion by default
After the Audit

The audit ends. The independence doesn’t.

An independent audit is only as useful as what happens next. FX-IT’s post-delivery posture is built around one principle: we don’t bid on remediation work arising from our own audits. Ever. That’s what keeps the next audit honest.

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Final report delivered

Watermarked PDF + raw evidence pack (photos, .sor traces, .esx heatmaps, CSV/JSON form data). Signed off in the portal. Yours to keep.

2

12 months of portal access

The live workspace stays open for 12 months at no further cost. Track remediation against the original findings register; mark items resolved; attach contractor evidence.

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Optional remediation support — vendor-neutral

If you want help running the remediation programme, we can scope a separate engagement: writing tender packs, evaluating contractor quotes, witness-testing the work, and re-auditing specific findings. We do not bid on the remediation itself.

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Annual re-audit at a reduced fee

Because the asset register, photographs and baseline traces already live in the platform, a year-two follow-up costs significantly less than the first audit. Quoted on the same fixed-fee basis.

Independence Pledge

FX-IT will not tender for, sub-contract on, or accept commission from any remediation work arising from an FX-IT audit.

What this means in practice:
We do not sell hardware. We do not resell ISP or MSP contracts. We do not earn referral fees from contractors we recommend during scope-of-works support. Any commercial relationship arising during an engagement is disclosed in writing within 48 hours, in line with our standard terms.

Who Walks Your Site

Senior engineers. No sub-contractors. No juniors on critical sites.

Every FX-IT audit is led personally by a senior engineer with 15+ years of network field experience, supported by one or two capture engineers and, where required, a specialist (fibre, Wi-Fi, OT). We do not white-label other firms’ engineers and we do not deploy juniors on critical sites.

Lead
Auditor
Capture
Engineer
Specialist
(as req.)

The typical field team

A two- or three-person crew, on site for the full physical-inspection phase. The lead auditor stays attached to your engagement from kick-off to sign-off; you talk to the same person every time. The capture engineer handles photography, form capture and instrument readings. Specialist support is added when scope requires it — fibre splicing certification, Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi surveyor, OT/IT-segregation expertise.

30+ years field experience Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi survey OTDR & fibre-loss testing Bellcore .sor workflow POPIA-aware data handling CIPC-registered VAT-registered Public Liability & PI insured
About FX-IT

Independent. Vendor-neutral. Evidence-led.

FX-IT (Pty) Ltd has more than 30 years of experience designing, installing, auditing and managing enterprise network infrastructure across industry, local government, education, healthcare, telecommunications and the commercial sector.

We hold no commercial relationships with fibre operators, ISPs, MSPs or hardware vendors at the sites we audit. Our findings are based exclusively on physical inspection, instrument-based testing and review of available documentation — captured and delivered through the FX-IT Audit Platform.

Learn more at fx-it.co.za
Trusted Across
Industry
Factories & warehousing
Government
Local & national
Education
Campuses & schools
Healthcare
Hospitals & clinics
Commercial
Office & retail
Estates
Residential FTTH
Insurance
PI & Public Liability
Cover details on request at quotation stage.
Data Handling
POPIA-aligned
12-month retention, 30-day notice, secure delete.
Hosting
South African infrastructure
Audit data stays in-country.
Operational Risk
Non-invasive audits
No active fibres cut. No live VLANs disturbed.
Registration
CIPC & VAT registered
Tax clearance & B-BBEE certificate on request.

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