About Ambio Edge Networks
Most IT providers treat your network as one of many things they manage. We treat it as the only thing we do — firewalls, switching, wireless, VPN, monitoring, and compliance infrastructure. Serving Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Silicon Valley, with remote-managed network operations across the U.S. The result is infrastructure that performs under pressure, passes audits without scrambling, and gives operations leaders one less thing to worry about.
Track Record
We only do networks: the firewall, the switches, the Wi-Fi, the links between offices, remote access. Nothing else.
Years of network-only practice. Architecture, security, and operations — not IT generalism.
Sites delivered. Healthcare clinics, law offices, financial branches, multi-site operations.
Design target, not a guarantee, for builds with two firewalls so one can fail (an HA pair), two internet lines, and backed-up power.
Senior-led, start to finish. No junior handoffs. No ticket queue. No escalation chain.
Career aggregate. The 20+ years and 300+ sites span the operator’s full network-only practice, including prior-employer engagements. 99.99% availability, about 53 minutes of downtime per year, is an architecture design target for engagements that fund full redundancy. It is not a service guarantee or uptime SLA. Contracted response times and service levels are defined in each customer agreement.
What Makes Us Different
Four habits. Each one is there because skipping it is a way networks go down.
Firewalls, switching, Wi-Fi, VPN, monitoring, and compliance readiness — that is the scope. No printers, no password resets, no general IT. Every hour goes into the part of IT everything else depends on, so we are looking for the problems that stop an office before they stop it.
You work directly with Jeff Johnson, a Cisco-, Fortinet- and CompTIA-certified network engineer with 20+ years on networks. No ticket queue. No escalation chain. No junior technician learning on your environment. The engineer who designs your network stays your point of contact while it runs.
We never make a change without understanding why. Every modification has a documented design behind it, reviewed before deployment. That is why a change can be undone, and why an auditor gets a written answer instead of a shrug.
Standardized configurations deployed consistently across every site. Not because automation is trendy — because the same setting applied the same way at every site is how you stop the one-off typo that takes an office down. Same config. Every time. Every location.
Our Approach
No mystery. No black box. Every step is documented, explained, and approved before execution.
A Network Risk Assessment: fixed price, about two weeks for one site. Firewall and switch settings reviewed, separation between departments checked and gaps documented. You keep the report, the diagram and the roadmap whether or not we do the work.
Address critical risks first, then build toward a standardized architecture. Fixed-fee projects once the scope is clear (a like-for-like FortiGate swap $2,500, a firewall migration from $6,500), hourly where it is not: $225 for standard technical labor, $325 for specialized engineering, $350 for architecture. You can do the critical fixes with us and nothing else. That is fine. Every change documented, tested, and scheduled with a rollback plan.
Managed plans from $695 per site per month. Every device and link checked every minute, alerts to Slack or Teams, automated monitoring with Jeff responding Mon–Fri, 8 AM–5 PM Pacific. Settings backed up so a change can be undone and shown to an auditor. 12-, 24- or 36-month term; give notice in the first 90 days and leave without an early-termination fee.
Your Engineer
No rotating technicians. No ticket queue. One named senior engineer is your point of contact from assessment through ongoing operations, and knows your environment, your compliance requirements, and your business context. You are never passed between people. Nothing depends on memory alone: monitoring is automated, every config is backed up, and your documentation comes back to you within 30 days if you leave.
On site as a network engineer in Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose; remote for multi-site networks across the U.S.
Background: Founder, ex-Meta. Past engagements include Cisco, Wells Fargo, Fannie Mae, and other Fortune 500 networks — the same caliber of engineering, now applied to mid-market organizations.
We are a Fortinet Engage Advocate partner and supply FortiGate, FortiSwitch and FortiAP. As an Authorized Opengear Partner, we supply and configure cellular console servers for out-of-band management and remote troubleshooting. As an HPE Networking Business Partner, we supply HPE Aruba Networking switches, access points and subscriptions. We also monitor and manage the Cisco, Aruba, Arista and other enterprise gear you already run. You don’t have to rip anything out to work with us.
Fit
We deliver the best results for organizations that share these characteristics. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you directly.
Network-First
A traditional MSP runs your laptops, email and printers as well as your network. We run only the network. Already have an IT provider? Keep them; we run the network layer alongside them on a co-managed basis.
Work With Us
If your network matters to your business, it deserves an engineer whose only job is the network. The Network Risk Assessment is the first step, and the report is yours to keep. $3,500 for a single small site; larger networks are priced on the assessment pricing page. See a sample report (PDF).
Response from a senior engineer within 1 business day.
A direct conversation — no sales team, no runaround.
An honest assessment of whether we are the right fit.
Clear next steps if we are — no pressure if we are not.
