Wireless Redesign for High-Volume Creative Work

For over 30 years, this studio has been shaping how people see the built environment. As a leader in architectural visualisation, they bring buildings to life before they’re built; using CGI, animation, and immersive storytelling to help architects and developers communicate bold ideas.

With a small but powerful team and a reputation for pushing creative and technical boundaries, they operate in a space where design meets data. Every project depends on flawless digital workflows and massive file transfers: making performance and reliability not just nice-to-haves, but non-negotiable.

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Industry: Architecture Visualisation

Organisation Size: Less than 50 employees

Service Areas: Ubiquity Unifi Managed Wireless Infrastructure

The studio’s wireless network had been in place for years, built around Cisco Aironet access points managed through a central controller. While it had served them well initially, the demands of the business had moved on.

Wireless connectivity wasn’t just for email or basic browsing. Staff relied on laptops to access a high‑speed 10Gb data infrastructure, stream content to projectors for internal and client meetings, and support secure guest access for visiting clients and freelancers. On top of that, the business was moving multiple terabytes of data every day, driven by live project work, backups, offsite replication, and an active render farm.

As network activity increased, cracks began to show. Video streams would suffer from jitter, buffering, and degraded quality, especially during busy periods. Introducing 4K and later 8K video streaming only amplified the problem, impacting both presenters and everyday wireless users across the office.

Security was another critical concern. The wireless environment needed to be tightly controlled, continuously monitored, and fully integrated with Active Directory, ensuring only authenticated users could access internal systems, while guests remained securely isolated.

What was once a solid setup was now limiting performance, reliability, and user experience, and it was clear the wireless network needed a fundamental rethink.

The goal was to deliver fast, secure, and reliable wireless performance — built to handle the demands of high-volume data transfers, 4K/8K streaming, and real-time creative workflows.

To get there, we:

• Conducted a full wireless survey to map current signal coverage and identify optimal new access point locations based on the studio’s updated office layout.
• Deployed a centralised Ubiquity UniFi Cloud Controller, giving the business unified visibility and management across all wireless infrastructure.
• Created a guest wireless network with a branded captive portal splash page, enabling secure, authenticated access for visitors and freelancers.
• Rolled out a hidden, staff-only wireless network, integrated with Active Directory and deployed via Microsoft Group Policy, ensuring only authorised users could connect.
• Built a dedicated 802.11ac wireless network on independent 5GHz channels for ultra-high-bandwidth use cases like 4K and 8K video streaming, supporting speeds up to 2000 Mbps.

The result was a future-proof wireless environment: secure, streamlined, and designed to meet the studio’s creative pace.

After years of incremental changes and office refits, the studio’s wireless network had become misaligned with how the space, and the business, actually operated. The refresh brought it back in sync.

By redesigning the wireless layout based on a new site survey and deploying access points in optimal locations, the studio achieved complete wireless coverage with zero signal dead zones.

With network traffic now separated using virtual LANs and centrally managed through UniFi’s cloud controller, the team could confidently move terabytes of data daily, while simultaneously running high-res video streams, client meetings, and internal events without interruption.

The result? A wireless experience that felt invisible, fast, secure, and built for the way they work today.