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Network Equipment for E-Rate Category 2 Projects
We quote and deliver the network equipment a district specifies for a Category 2 request, and provide the itemized documentation a filing needs. The E-Rate application, the funding request and the service-provider relationship remain the district's.
- Category
- Equipment districts commonly specify for Category 2 internal connections
- What we provide
- Itemized quotes and delivery documentation for your records
- Boundary
- E-Rate is the applicant's program, administered by USAC
- Screening
- TAA and NDAA §889 screening on every line, before the quote
We quote the equipment; the filing stays yours
Districts and libraries running an E-Rate-funded network refresh need two things from a supplier: equipment that matches what was specified, and paperwork clean enough to sit in a filing record without generating a question. What they do not need is a reseller improvising about eligibility. This page is about the first two. We quote Category 2 internal-connections equipment — switching, wireless, structured cabling and the uninterruptible power behind it — line by line, with itemized documentation and honest lead times. Whether a given line is eligible, what the discount rate is, how the funding request is structured and who the service provider of record is are questions for the applicant and USAC, not for us.
Whose program this is
E-Rate — formally the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund — is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company under FCC rules. The applicant is the school, district, library or consortium. The applicant files the forms, certifies the competitive bidding, holds the funding commitment and is answerable for the record. A supplier can be a bidder into that process; it cannot file on the applicant's behalf, and it cannot make eligibility determinations that bind USAC.
Uniqcli does not provide E-Rate consulting, does not prepare or file forms, and makes no representation about SPIN registration, service-provider status or funding outcomes on this page. If your district works with an E-Rate consultant, they are the right party for eligibility questions and we are happy to quote to whatever specification they hand us. Treat everything below as equipment information, which is what it is.
The practical consequence is simple and it works in your favour: because we are quoting against a specification rather than interpreting a program, our quotes are itemized at a granularity that a filing record can actually use — manufacturer, part number, quantity, unit price and lead time per line, with nothing bundled into an opaque figure.
The internal-connections categories, priced per line
Quoted against your specification and your building list, itemized so the documentation is usable. Naming a manufacturer describes the market, not a Uniqcli partnership or endorsement.
Switching and structured cabling
Access and aggregation switching with the PoE budget the access points actually draw, plus the patch panels, cable management and structured cabling behind it. Allied Telesis and Netgear both carry deep priced switching lines on our catalog. Specify the port counts, the uplink requirement and the PoE class per building and we quote per closet rather than per district.
Wireless access points and controllers
Indoor and outdoor access points, controllers and the mounting hardware that goes with them. Ubiquiti and EnGenius both carry priced access-point rows on the hub across the current standards. Density in a classroom is driven by concurrent client count rather than by square footage, and a per-room count sourced from a real survey beats a per-square-foot rule of thumb every time.
Uninterruptible power for the closets
Every wiring closet holding a PoE switch needs conditioned, backed-up power, and it is the line most often trimmed out of a network quote and regretted in the first storm season. CyberPower carries priced UPS rows on our catalog across the common closet capacities. Sized against the switch load plus the access points it powers, not against the switch alone.
From specification to delivered equipment
- Send the specification, the building list and the closet counts — from your engineer, your consultant or your existing standard
- We return an itemized quote: manufacturer, part number, quantity, unit price and lead time per line
- Availability is stated honestly, including anything on an extended lead time
- Nothing is substituted without your written approval; brand-name-or-equal justification available on request
- Delivery is staged to buildings in the sequence your installers work
- Delivery and invoice documentation is itemized to the same granularity as the quote
- TAA (FAR 52.225-5) and NDAA §889 screening performed on every line before the quote goes out
Equipment and process questions
Do you help with E-Rate filings?
No. We do not provide E-Rate consulting, do not prepare or file forms, and make no representation about eligibility or funding outcomes. The application, the certifications and the record belong to the applicant, and USAC administers the program. What we provide is equipment quoted against your specification with itemized documentation your records can use.
Is this equipment E-Rate eligible?
Eligibility is determined by the USAC Eligible Services List for the funding year in question and applied to a specific request by the applicant and USAC — not by a supplier's catalog description. We quote what you specify and describe it accurately, manufacturer and part number included, so that whoever is making the eligibility determination is working from real information.
What documentation comes with the equipment?
Itemized quotes and delivery documentation at line-item granularity: manufacturer, part number, description, quantity, unit price, extended price and lead time. That is deliberately more detail than a bundled system quote provides, because bundled figures are exactly what generates questions in a filing record.
Can you quote against our engineer's design?
Yes, and that is the preferred route. Send the bill of materials or the design document and we quote line for line against it. Where a specified part is discontinued or on an extended lead time we flag it and propose an equivalent for your approval rather than substituting quietly.
How should we size UPS capacity for a wiring closet?
Against the total load, which means the switch plus everything it powers over PoE — access points, cameras, phones — not the switch's own draw alone. Districts routinely under-size here because the PoE budget is invisible on the switch's own nameplate. Send the closet inventory and we will size it against the real number and tell you the expected runtime.
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Send the specification
Your engineer's bill of materials, your consultant's design or your existing standard, plus the building and closet list. A Uniqcli specialist returns an itemized quote at line-item granularity with honest lead times. TAA (FAR 52.225-5) and NDAA §889 screening performed on every line before the quote goes out.