CONSTRUCTION 101 · LESSON SERIES

Your jobsite doesn’t have fiber. It doesn’t need it.

Carriers quote 90–180 days and $10k–$100k to trench fiber to a site you’ll leave in two years. The New Enterprise bonds multiple 5G carriers — and Starlink — into one unbreakable connection with site-wide WiFi, live the day your trailer …

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THE OLD WAY vs THE NEW WAY

Section label (amber, all-caps): THE 101

Intro line: Construction connectivity has one structural problem: you need permanent-grade internet on a temporary site. The old way pays permanent prices. The new way doesn’t.

	The Old Way	The New Enterprise
What you buy	Trenched temp fiber, or 20 crew hotspots, or both	One bonded 5G gateway + managed WiFi access points
Cost — upfront	$10k–$60k fiber construction (up to $100k+ rural)	$4k–$12k hardware, one-time — you own it
Cost — monthly	$500–$2,000 circuit; or $1,000+/mo hotspot sprawl + per-camera SIMs	$300–$800 pooled data + SpeedFusion service
Time to live	90–180 days carrier lead time	Hours. Online the day the trailer lands
Risk	Single circuit = single point of failure; one cut cable stalls RFIs at $10k–$50k/day general conditions	SpeedFusion bonds 2–8 cellular paths + Starlink; hot-failover — no single carrier can take you down
At handover	Fiber abandoned. Sunk cost.	Kit unbolts and mobilizes to the next job. Amortize across every future site
Scaling up	New carrier order, new construction quote	Bond more paths like Lego: 5G ×2 → ×8, add Starlink
Management	Nobody owns it; sticky-note passwords	InControl cloud dashboard — every site, every WAN, every AP

Section close: One bad trailer day costs more than the entire kit. Do the math once and the old way never survives it.

SOLUTIONS — three kits, one architecture

Section label (amber): PICK YOUR SITE SIZE

Every kit is the same architecture at different scale: bonded cellular backhaul in, managed WiFi out, InControl cloud management over the top. Pre-configured by West Networks — your super plugs in power and it works.

Kit 1 — The Trailer Kit

Who it’s for: Single-trailer sites, early mobilization, renovation jobs, punch-list phases.

Backhaul: Peplink MAX BR1 Pro 5G or B One Router — BR2 Pro 5G
2× AP One Enterprise — trailer + laydown yard
5G with dual-SIM carrier redundancy; automatic failover between carriers
VLANs out of the box: office / crew / cameras / guest
SpeedFusion hot-failover so Procore and VoIP never notice a carrier drop
InControl cloud management; ruggedized, trailer-mount hardware

From ~$2,500 one-time + data. Pays for itself vs. 20 crew hotspots in about 3 months.

Kit 2 — The Site-Wide WiFi Kit

Who it’s for: Mid-rise commercial, full-block sites, jobs with cameras + sensors + 50–200 crew.

Backhaul: Peplink MAX HD2 — two cellular modems bonding two carriers simultaneously
6× AP One Enterprise — trailers, yard, hoist runs, and floors as the structure rises
SIM Injector — pool and swap SIMs remotely, no ladder trips
SpeedFusion bonding + WAN smoothing: 200–600 Mbps aggregate in metro areas, steady under single-carrier congestion
Dedicated camera/IoT VLAN — kill per-device SIM plans
IP-rated enclosure options for yard-mounted gear; InControl fleet dashboard

~$8k–$12k one-time + pooled data. Versus a $10k–$60k trench you abandon at handover — and this kit does your next four jobs too.

Kit 3 — The Mega-Site / Private 5G Kit

Who it’s for: Infrastructure and heavy-civil programs, data-center builds, sites beyond one carrier’s reliable coverage, 200+ crew.

Backhaul: Peplink MAX HD4 — four cellular modems across up to four carriers
Starlink in the bond — SpeedFusion treats satellite as one more WAN path; thin cell coverage stops mattering
12–24× AP One Enterprise across trailers, batch plants, laydown, and the works
Private 5G option for licensed/CBRS deployments on very large footprints
500 Mbps–1 Gbps+ aggregate; drone-survey uploads in minutes, not overnight
SIM Injector + InControl for multi-site program visibility

Scoped per site, typically $15k–$30k one-time. Rural fiber builds at this scale quote $60k–$100k+ with 6-month leads. You’ll redeploy this kit for a decade.

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CASE STUDIES TEASER

Section label (amber): PROVEN ON REAL SITES

Copy: The same SpeedFusion bonding that runs live broadcast at golf majors, F1, and SailGP — and keeps ambulance fleets and mobile mammography units connected — runs jobsite trailers. Read how a mid-rise GC got site-wide WiFi in one day for less than a tenth of their fiber quote, and how a highway mega-site bonded four carriers plus Starlink where no single carrier delivered 10 Mbps.

Link: See the deployments → /case-studies

LEARN — Construction Connectivity 101 (training series teaser)

Section label (amber): FREE 5-PART SERIES

Copy: We’re the “101” site — we teach first. Five short videos (3–4 minutes each) take you from “why the old way is broken” to a deployment design for your own site:

Why the old way is broken — fiber-build economics, hotspot sprawl, dead trailer days
Bonding, explained for construction IT — SpeedFusion, hot-failover, WAN smoothing
Designing site-wide WiFi — backhaul sizing + AP placement as the building rises
One network for cameras, sensors, and crews — and moving the kit to the next job
Design your deployment — worksheet + kit selection

Link: Start Part 1 → /learn

LEAD FORM

Get a connectivity plan for your next mobilization.

Supporting line: Tell us about your site — we’ll come back within one business day with a kit recommendation, real bandwidth expectations for your location, and the ROI math versus your carrier’s build quote. No pitch deck. Just the plan.

Fields: – Name – Company – Work email – Phone – Site location (city/state or coordinates) – Project type (dropdown: Commercial mid-rise / Infrastructure & heavy civil / Industrial / Residential multi-family / Other) – Project duration (dropdown: <6 months / 6–18 months / 18–36 months / 36+ months) – Crew size on site (dropdown: <25 / 25–100 / 100–250 / 250+) – What needs to connect? (checkboxes: Trailer & office / Cameras & time-lapse / IoT sensors / Crew devices / Drones / VoIP) – Do you have a carrier fiber quote already? (Yes/No — if yes: lead time + cost fields)

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Button label (amber): Send me the plan

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FAQ (exactly 6)

Q1. How fast is bonded 5G really? Fast enough for BIM sync? Yes. Bonding aggregates carriers: a MAX HD2 on two carriers typically delivers 200–600 Mbps combined in metro areas; an HD4 with four modems plus Starlink can exceed 1 Gbps aggregate. That’s multi-GB Procore/Autodesk Construction Cloud syncs and drone uploads in minutes. A single $50 hotspot is slow; a bond is not a hotspot.

Q2. What if cell coverage at our site is bad? Bond what exists. Weak Carrier A + weak Carrier B + Starlink = one strong pipe. SpeedFusion’s WAN smoothing and hot-failover keep sessions alive when any single path degrades. Sites where no single carrier hits 10 Mbps routinely see 50–150 Mbps bonded with satellite in the mix.

Q3. What happens at project handover? The kit unbolts in an afternoon and mobilizes to your next job. That’s the core economics: a $10k kit across four jobs is $2.5k/job, versus a $10k–$60k trench abandoned per job. Data plans deactivate or transfer; InControl re-tags the kit to the new site in minutes.

Q4. Do we need IT staff on site to run this? No. Kits ship pre-configured. The super connects power and antennas; everything else is managed remotely through InControl — West Networks (or your IT director) monitors every WAN, AP, and device from one dashboard across all your sites.

Q5. Can our camera and time-lapse vendors use it? That’s the point. Cameras, time-lapse, access control, and concrete sensors get a dedicated VLAN over the bonded backhaul — replacing a dozen individual SIM plans with one managed, redundant uplink. Camera uptime goes up; the per-device data bills go away.

Q6. Is this proven, or are we the beta test? The identical architecture carries live broadcast at golf majors, F1, and SailGP; keeps ambulance fleets and mobile mammography units online; and bonds 4–20 Starlinks on vessels at sea. A jobsite trailer is a calm day for it.

FOOTER

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Title (57): Construction Site Internet in Hours, Not Months | CC101
Meta (152): No fiber for months? Bond multiple 5G carriers and Starlink into unbreakable jobsite WiFi, live on day one. The ROI math vs. trenching, explained.

Solutions (/solutions)

Title (58): Jobsite WiFi Kits: Trailer to Mega-Site | Construction 101
Meta (151): Three bonded-5G kits — Trailer, Site-Wide WiFi, Mega-Site — with Peplink BR1/HD2/HD4 backhaul and AP One Enterprise WiFi. Specs, prices, ROI math.

Case Studies (/case-studies)

Title (55): Construction Connectivity Case Studies | Real Numbers
Meta (148): How a mid-rise GC got site-wide WiFi in one day for a tenth of the fiber quote, and a mega-site bonded 4 carriers + Starlink. Deploy times and dollars.

Learn (/learn)

Title (58): Construction Connectivity 101: Free 5-Part Video Course
Meta (154): Five short videos: why fiber builds and hotspots fail jobsites, how bonding works, designing site-wide WiFi, and a worksheet to design your deployment.

Contact (/contact)

Title (54): Get a Jobsite Connectivity Plan | West Networks
Meta (149): Tell us about your site. Within one business day: a kit recommendation, real bandwidth expectations for your location, and ROI vs. your fiber quote.