Network As-Built Documentation You Can Accept With Confidence.
The as-built package is the part of the job you keep. Long after the crew demobilizes, the drawings, the port map, and the test results are what your team works from — and what the next contractor prices against.
SRS Networks delivers a complete closeout package: floor plans as installed, RU-accurate rack elevations, a CSV port-to-outlet map, certification results bound link by link, and native DWG files. Red-lined in the field daily, drafted and reconciled before handover.
Network as-built documentation is the record of what was actually installed, as opposed to what was drawn before the work started. A complete package covers floor plans showing real drop and pathway locations, rack elevations at true RU positions, a port-to-outlet map built from the terminations, an ANSI/TIA-606-B labeling schedule, certification results tied to each link, the bill of materials, and a photo record of everything that is now behind drywall or above the ceiling grid.
SRS Networks is a nationwide network infrastructure deployment contractor headquartered in Salinas, California, delivering as-built documentation and closeout packages to enterprise IT teams, facility owners, and general contractors across all 48 contiguous states since 1996. We have completed 500+ deployments across 5,000+ sites, and every drawing, red-line, and test result on an active project is visible to your team in the Project Command Center while the work is still in the field. The documentation is produced alongside the structured cabling installation process, not assembled from memory after the crew leaves.
Most As-Built Packages Are Design Drawings in a New Folder
When you are the one accepting a completed build, the package is the deliverable you are least equipped to inspect on the spot. Four failures show up over and over.
Design Drawings Relabeled As-Built
The issued-for-construction set comes back with a new title block and nothing else changed. Every field deviation — the rerouted riser, the two drops that moved, the panel that shifted racks — is missing from the record you just accepted.
A Port Map That Doesn't Match the Rack
The schedule was built from the design intent, not from what was actually terminated. Your team finds it out six weeks later when they patch what the spreadsheet calls 2A-B14 and take down a different floor.
Test Results Nobody Attached
The cabling was certified, but the results live on a technician's tester or in a PDF with no link to a label ID. You cannot prove any specific link passed, and the manufacturer warranty registration stalls without the submission.
Flat PDFs and No Native Files
You get a scanned binder. No DWG, no CSV port map, no tester export. The next contractor has to re-survey the building from scratch, and you pay twice for information you already bought once.
Documentation Produced During the Build, Not After It.
An as-built is only as good as the field discipline behind it. SRS Networks red-lines daily, records the port map at the moment of termination, and reconciles the drawings against the test data before anything ships. It is the same discipline that produces our cabling certification reports and keeps a cable plant accurate after handover.
What a Complete As-Built Package Contains
Eight components. If any one of them is missing, the package will not survive the first move, add, or change your team tries to make from it.
Floor Plans, As Installed
Drop locations, outlet IDs, pathway and tray routing, sleeve and core locations, and firestop penetrations shown where they actually landed after coordination with mechanical and electrical.
Rack Elevations
Front and rear elevation per rack and per telecom room, with true RU positions for patch panels, switches, fiber enclosures, PDUs, and cable managers. Drawn from the finished rack, not the submittal.
Port-to-Outlet Map
The row your network team lives in. Outlet ID, room and floor, cable ID, patch panel and port, rack, telecom room, media type, length, and test result status — one line per link, delivered as CSV.
Backbone and Riser Schematic
A one-line of the backbone showing MDF to IDF paths, strand counts, fiber type, splice and termination points, and copper riser pairs, so a future upgrade starts with facts instead of a survey.
Labeling Schedule
The ANSI/TIA-606-B identifier scheme written down: what each field in the label means, where it is applied, and the full register of identifiers issued on the project.
Certification Test Results
Fluke DSX permanent link results for every copper run and Tier 1 loss plus Tier 2 OTDR traces for fiber, exported with the label IDs intact so any row in the port map traces to its own result.
Materials and Warranty Record
Manufacturer, part number, and quantity for cable, jacks, panels, enclosures, and hardware, plus the warranty registration submission and certificate for the installed system.
Photo Record
Above-ceiling and in-wall photos taken before drywall and ceiling close, plus finished rack front and rear. When something has to be opened later, the photo record decides where.
How the As-Built Actually Gets Made
Seven steps that run in parallel with the installation. The order matters, because step three cannot be repeated once the ceiling closes.
01Baseline the Design Set
At mobilization we lock the issued-for-construction drawings as the baseline and register the outlet, panel, rack, and telecom room identifiers we will use. Every later change is measured against that baseline, so nothing is reconstructed from memory at the end of the job.
02Red-Line in the Field, Daily
The crew lead marks deviations the day they happen — a drop that moved, a pathway rerouted around a duct, a sleeve added, a run that came in longer than designed. Each red-line carries a date and the technician who made it, so the final drafting has an audit trail instead of a guess.
03Rough-In Verification Before Close-Up
Before ceilings and drywall close, we photograph and verify pathway, support spacing, penetrations, and firestop. This is the only window that exists for it. Once the building closes, anything undocumented above the grid stays undocumented until somebody cuts a hole.
04Terminate, Label, and Build the Map
The port-to-outlet map is built as the terminations happen, not from the design schedule. Outlet, cable, panel port, rack, and room are recorded together at the moment the link is landed, and labels go on to the TIA-606-B scheme already registered in step one.
05Certify and Bind Results to the Record
Copper is certified on a Fluke DSX in permanent link configuration and fiber gets Tier 1 loss testing plus Tier 2 OTDR traces where the spec calls for it. Results are exported with label IDs intact and joined to the port map so every row in the record carries its own evidence.
06Draft Red-Lines Into Final CAD
A drafter incorporates the field red-lines into the CAD set and we QA the drawings against the test data and the photo record. If a link exists in the drawing but not in the test file, or the reverse, it gets resolved before the package leaves us. That reconciliation is where most as-builts fail.
07Issue and Walk the Closeout Package
You receive the full package — PDF, DWG, CSV, tester exports, photos, warranty certificate — and we walk your team through it on a call or on site. Punch items are closed against the record, and your network group knows how to read the map before the contractor leaves the property.
You Get the Native Files, Not Just a PDF
Documentation you cannot edit is documentation you will pay to recreate. Every closeout package ships in editable, importable formats you own outright.
PDF Binder
Indexed and bookmarked. Drawings, schedules, test summary, warranty certificate, and photo record in one document you can forward to a landlord, auditor, or lender.
DWG / CAD Set
Native AutoCAD files with layered floor plans, rack elevations, and the backbone one-line, so your next contractor edits the drawing instead of redrawing the building.
CSV Port Map
One row per link, delimiter-clean, column headers stable across sites. Imports directly into a DCIM, IPAM, or asset system without hand cleanup.
Native Tester Exports
The original Fluke project files and OTDR traces, not screenshots. Manufacturer warranty programs and third-party auditors ask for these specifically.
Photo Archive
Rough-in, pathway, penetration, grounding, and finished rack photos, named to the same identifiers used in the drawings and the port map.
Warranty Submission
The manufacturer system warranty registration package assembled and submitted, with the certificate returned to you as part of closeout.
The Same Package, Site After Site.
On a single building, documentation quality is a preference. Across a 90-site rollout it is the difference between a network your team can operate and 90 separate mysteries. We hold one identifier scheme, one drawing standard, and one file structure across every site on the program.
How to inspect an as-built package before you sign for it
Open the port map first and pick five rows at random. Walk to those outlets, read the label on the faceplate, then go to the telecom room and confirm the patch panel and port match what the row says. If five out of five agree, the map was built from terminations. If two disagree, it was built from the design schedule and the rest of the package is worth exactly as much.
Next, take one of those same five and find its certification result. It should exist as its own record, with the same label ID, a pass result, and a margin value on the worst-case parameter. A test summary that says "all links passed" without per-link records is a claim, not evidence, and it will not satisfy a manufacturer warranty submission. Then compare a rack elevation to the actual rack. Count RU positions. Design elevations and finished racks almost never match exactly, and the elevation that shows the real positions is the one that was drawn after the equipment went in.
Finally, ask for the DWG and the CSV, not the PDF of the DWG and the PDF of the CSV. This is the question that separates contractors quickly. A firm that produced the documentation properly hands over native files without hesitation. A firm that outsourced the drafting at the end of the job usually cannot, and that gap becomes your problem the next time you need to add a floor. Every SRS closeout ships native, and while the job is still running your team can watch the record fill in through the Project Command Center instead of waiting until demobilization to find out what you are getting.
Network As-Built Documentation FAQs
The questions IT directors, facility owners, and general contractors ask us before accepting a closeout package.
Get an As-Built Package Worth Keeping.
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