What structured cabling costs per point and what that price includes

An SCS point is one network workplace: the path from the patch panel in the cabinet to the desk outlet — cable, outlet, panel port, labeling and testing included. Per-point pricing makes offers comparable: a 40-desk office is 40–80 points (one or two per desk).

But only identical scope compares: one contractor's 'point' includes trunking and testing, another's is bare cable. That is where the multi-fold spread comes from.

Materials: cable (35–60 meters per point in an average office), an outlet, a patch panel module, trunking or tray, patch cords on both ends. Labor: routing, mounting, termination at both ends, labeling. And the parts people forget: testing every line and as-built documentation.

The shares are roughly 40–50% materials, 40–50% labor, the rest documentation and overhead. Cat6 instead of Cat5e adds 10–15% per point and gives headroom to 10 gigabit on short runs.

First, site condition: pulling along open construction trays versus chasing a finished renovation are different universes of labor. Second, run lengths: a point 20 meters from the cabinet and one 70 meters away cost differently, though both are 'points' in the quote.

Third, scope: shielded cable, fire-rated lines for fire systems, trunking versus existing trays. An honest quote therefore always comes with a plan and a specification, not a single number.

Demand identical scope: cable category and maker, run lengths from the plan, channel type, testing, documentation. An 'all-inclusive per point' quote without a plan cannot be compared — it hides either the contractor's margin or future extras.

The red flag is a price notably below market: usually uncertified cable, skipped testing or an 'unforeseen works' bill at the end. A cabling system lives 10–15 years — a mistake in it outprices the savings.

You can: merge SCS with other low-current systems into shared routes (cameras, telephony, Wi-Fi — one tray), build the network during renovation rather than after, use Cat5e where 10G will definitely never come.

You cannot: on testing (an unverified line is a future floating network glitch), on patch panels and the cabinet (the network's heart), on spare points — adding cable after renovation costs more than the whole original quote.

Send the floor plan with workplaces — we return an estimate with a route plan, a specification and a per-point price in your scope. Ballpark the budget in the online calculator on our site; the engineer's visit is free in Tashkent.

We build SCS with every line tested and as-built documentation; cable, cabinets, panels and switches come from our Tashkent warehouse.