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    (800) 518-9193Managed IT for Concrete & Construction Materials Companies — Since 1994
    Centrix Systems — Managed IT for Concrete Companies
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    LAN & WAN Management

    We Take a Tangled Mess and Make It Centrally Managed.

    Your local network, your connections between sites, your internet — all of it designed, built, and managed by one team who knows what a concrete or aggregate operation actually needs from its network.

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    Your Network Is Load-Bearing Infrastructure

    In a concrete operation, the network isn't a background utility — it's the foundation that your dispatch software, batching systems, scale connectivity, and ticketing all run on. When it's unreliable, everything that runs on top of it is unreliable.

    Most of the network problems we see in plants and yards aren't equipment failures. They're design failures. The network wasn't planned for the environment or the workload. It was patched together over years, and the result is a tangle of inconsistent configurations, overlooked security gaps, and connectivity problems that keep coming back no matter how many times individual pieces get "fixed."

    We fix the actual problem. We engineer both the local network at each facility and the wide-area connections between them — document everything, and manage it centrally so your whole environment is visible, consistent, and under control.

    LAN — Your Local Network at Each Facility

    From single-plant offices to multi-building concrete facilities, we design and manage local networks built for industrial operations.

    Full LAN Design & Engineering

    From topology and segmentation to switch configuration and structured cabling — designed for your specific facility layout, your specific software, and your specific operational requirements. Not a generic office network adapted to fit a plant.

    Sophos Network Hardware

    We deploy and manage Sophos routers and switches — enterprise-grade hardware with built-in security and centralized management through Sophos Central. One platform, full visibility across your entire local network.

    Multi-Building Connectivity

    Batch office, scale house, dispatch, maintenance shop — connected reliably with proper cabling and network design that accounts for the physical distances and environmental conditions of your facility.

    Wireless Network Engineering

    High-coverage wireless for plants and yards — designed with site surveys and proper access point placement for the distances and interference conditions of industrial facilities.

    Network Segmentation

    Separate zones for office systems, plant floor operations, guest access, and operational technology — so a problem in one area can't spread to everything else.

    Centralized Management

    Your local network managed from a single console. Every device visible, configuration changes pushed remotely, issues identified and addressed without a site visit every time.

    WAN — Connecting Your Locations

    Multi-site connectivity designed for concrete and aggregate operations — reliable, secure, and centrally managed.

    Multi-Site WAN Design

    Multiple plants, remote quarry or pit sites, aggregate yards, satellite offices — each location needs reliable connectivity back to your core systems and to each other. We design WAN architecture that fits your footprint and your budget.

    ISP Management & Redundancy

    We manage your internet service provider relationships, configure failover connections so a single ISP outage doesn't take a location offline, and monitor WAN links continuously for performance and reliability.

    SD-WAN

    For operations with multiple sites and significant inter-site traffic, software-defined WAN gives you better performance, smarter traffic routing, and centralized control over all your WAN connections — at a cost that's often lower than traditional MPLS circuits.

    Site-to-Site VPN

    Encrypted tunnels connecting your locations securely — so traffic between your plants, yards, and office travels over protected connections, not open internet.

    Remote Access VPN

    Encrypted access for management, IT staff, and remote workers who need to connect to plant systems or back-office applications from outside the network.

    Documentation

    Every network we build or clean up gets fully documented — network diagrams, device inventory, IP addressing, configuration records, and WAN circuit details. Anyone working on your network months or years from now knows exactly what they're dealing with.

    Network Management Built for Concrete Operations

    Every network we design is built on Sophos routers and switches — enterprise-grade hardware with built-in security and centralized management. This means your network infrastructure and your cybersecurity are handled under one platform, not separate tools from separate vendors.

    Our network management is part of a broader managed IT services approach that covers your entire environment. For operations that need a clear picture of their current security posture, our free cybersecurity threat assessment is the best place to start.

    We support multi-plant ready-mix IT environments where reliable network connectivity between dispatch, batching, and scale systems is critical. For aggregate facility network management, we design infrastructure that covers quarries, pits, and remote yards with the same centralized visibility. And when your server management needs attention, we handle that too — without disrupting your network operations.

    Related Services

    Sophos Security

    Enterprise endpoint protection, routers, and switches — the hardware that powers your managed network.

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    Managed IT Services

    24/7 monitoring, unlimited helpdesk, flat-rate pricing for your entire concrete operation.

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    Threat Assessment

    Free vulnerability scan and dark web credential check for your network.

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    One Team Managing Your Entire Network — Local and Remote.

    Schedule a network assessment and find out what a properly designed, centrally managed network looks like for your operation.

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