Services
Consulting for networks that can't fail.
TMNS is a focused consulting practice: Tier 3/4 rural telecom networks and regional OT and SCADA networks, worldwide. We help you get the architecture right, hold vendors to it, and design the resilience your operation actually needs. Then we document it so your team owns it. No products to sell you, no contracts to grow. Just the engineering.
The practice
Telecom, OT & industrial network consulting
For rural telephone and broadband companies, transit agencies, utilities, manufacturers, and any organization whose network is the service.
Carrier and operational networks have different rules. A 911 call must always complete. Uptime is measured in years, not nines on a spreadsheet. Devices can't always be patched. Vendors need remote access you can't fully trust. And the consequences of a bad design decision are lost dial tone and physical disruption, not a reopened ticket.
Our consulting practice is grounded in years of hands-on telecom and industrial network work: carrier routing, 911 priority traffic, subscriber broadband, signaling, SCADA, fare collection, CCTV, and radio, at carrier and agency scale. We bring that operating discipline to your environment.
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Architecture & design review
Independent review of your OT network design, or a ground-up architecture for new lines, plants, and facilities.
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Segmentation & IT/OT boundaries
Zone-and-conduit designs that keep control systems isolated from enterprise IT, without making them unmanageable.
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Vendor & project oversight
Someone on your side of the table when integrators and controls vendors propose network changes.
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Secure remote access
Vendor access, remote operations, and site-to-site connectivity designed so convenience never outruns control.
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HA & DR design
Blue/green, active/active, and active/standby designs with tested failover, and DR kept separate from HA, with honest recovery time objectives.
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Documentation that survives you
Drawings, standards, and plain-language runbooks the next engineer (or the auditor) can actually use.
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Monitoring & automation
Monitoring you can trust and automation that removes the toil, built into the design, then handed to your team.
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Rural-efficient engineering
Rural broadband roots: maximum result per dollar, with designs that respect thin budgets and long distances.
Resilience engineering
The maintenance window is gone. Design for it.
In 24/7 operations, maintenance windows have shrunk to zero. There is no longer a quiet hour when the network can be down, so we design networks that can be worked on at any time. Blue/green change models and active/active or active/standby high-availability designs mean upgrades, patches, and migrations happen in production, safely, while service keeps running.
And we hold a distinction most shops blur: high availability and disaster recovery are not the same thing. Treating them as one is how organizations discover, too late, that they have neither.
High availability
Keeps you running: through component failure and through change. Redundant paths, active/active and active/standby designs, and failover behavior that has actually been tested, not just drawn.
Disaster recovery
A separate capability, kept separate on purpose. Modern DR isn't just for floods and fires. It's your protection when a cyber attack takes the primary environment down. Recovery time objectives are design inputs, not afterthoughts.
Systems we work with
Quality platforms, deep familiarity.
Firewalls
Juniper & VyOS
Switches
Juniper-focused
Routers
Juniper & VyOS
VPN
IPSec, WireGuard & OpenVPN
Working in a mixed environment? OT networks always are. We routinely work alongside whatever your integrators and legacy projects left behind.
And one honest boundary: traditional corporate IT (Windows domains, office networks, desktop support) isn't our lane. We've built great partnerships over the years with people who do that well, and we're happy to make introductions.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us what your network does and where it hurts. A short conversation usually makes the right starting point obvious.