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§ 05 — The Firm

A crew, a truck, and the discipline to do it twice.

DDC Solutions LLC is a Wisconsin-headquartered structured cabling practice. We work on our own trucks, with our own people, under our own standards. Founded in 2004 and still run by the people who founded it.

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Origin

Started in the truck. Still in the truck.

DDC was started in 2004 by field installers who had gotten tired of watching work get done twice. We built the shop around a simple idea: if you label the drops, dress the cable, and document the runs, nobody calls you back for the wrong reasons.

Two decades later, we're larger — but the crew is still led by field people, not salespeople. Every project has a lead who has personally pulled, spliced, and terminated cable. When you talk to us about your job, you're talking to the person who will be on the roof.

We are headquartered in Wisconsin. We mobilize to the contiguous 48. And we return phone calls within a business day, every time.

§ 05.1 — Timeline

Twenty-plus years, on the pole.

The short version. Ask us about the long one.

2004

Shop doors open

DDC Solutions LLC founded in Wisconsin. Two installers, one van, one mission: do the job well enough that the customer calls back for the next one.

2007

First BICSI-credentialed crew

Lead installers certified. Shop commits to installing exclusively to ANSI/TIA-568 and BICSI best practices — no exceptions, no shortcuts.

2011

Expanded into fusion splicing

Invested in Fujikura splicing equipment and OTDR testing. Fiber backbone work became a core discipline alongside copper.

2015

Outside plant division

Added horizontal directional drilling, trenching, and aerial capabilities. Now able to build a project from the dirt up.

2019

Nationwide mobilization

Crews begin traveling for multi-site retail, healthcare, and financial services rollouts across the contiguous 48.

2023

E-Rate service provider

SPIN-registered. Began working directly with K-12 districts and public libraries on federally-funded infrastructure refreshes.

2026

Still here. Still pulling cable.

500+ completed installations. Same founders, expanded crew, same standards.

§ 05.2 — How we work

Four rules we won't break.

They sound simple. Most problems on a cabling job come from somebody breaking one of them.

RULE 01

If it isn't labeled, it doesn't exist.

Every port, every drop, every cable — tagged on both ends, to ANSI/TIA-606. A run with no label is a run that'll be pulled again in three years.

RULE 02

Tested, not assumed.

If we installed it, we tested it. Every link on a certifier, every fiber with an OTDR. Results delivered as a report, not as an "it works."

RULE 03

Clean up after yourself.

Boxes flattened, offcuts bagged, tile ceilings put back in the correct orientation. We leave the site the way we'd want it left.

RULE 04

The crew lead signs it.

Every certification packet has a name on it. Accountability is not outsourced. If something is wrong, you know whose phone to ring.

§ 05.3 — Credentials

The specifics.

The training, certifications, and affiliations behind every crew that rolls out of the shop.

INDUSTRY

BICSI

Installer 1 & Installer 2 certifications across the crew. Copper and optical fiber tracks.

STANDARDS

ANSI / TIA

568 (commercial), 606 (labeling), 942 (data center). We design and install to current revisions.

SAFETY

OSHA 30

30-hour construction for field leads. Aerial-lift, confined-space, first aid/CPR current.

SPLICING

Fujikura · Sumitomo

Manufacturer-trained on arc fusion splicers. Ribbon and single-fiber capable.

TESTING

Fluke · EXFO

DSX-8000 copper certifier, MaxTester 730 OTDR. Calibrated annually.

PUBLIC SECTOR

E-Rate SPIN

Registered service provider for K-12 and public library infrastructure projects.

Next step

Talk to a real installer.

Our first conversation is with one of our field leads — not a call-center rep, not a BDR. If you have a project, you'll be on the phone with someone who has been on a ladder this month.

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