openfactory nordic oy · Turku, Finland

Network engineering and managed infrastructure

We design it, build it and run it. And when it breaks, we know where to look.

For businesses, network operators and IT partners across Europe.

Who we work with

Businesses

Your connection, router and office network, looked after. We deal with the providers when something goes wrong.

Network operators

Router management, BGP sessions, migrations and incident work for ISPs and carriers, alongside your own team or on their behalf.

IT partners

You keep the customer. We take on the network part and document every change for you.

Engineering projects

From a single troubleshooting day to a complete network built, documented and handed over.

One contact for the whole chain

Businesses often tell us there are no good business ISPs. A connection rarely fails in just one place: the provider, the owner of the line, the hardware vendor and the people on site all play a part. You have one technical contact, and we coordinate the rest.

Internet provider
Access network
Your equipment
Data centre
On site

What we work on

Network and fabric engineering

BGP, MPLS, EVPN/VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, IPv6, RPKI and peering, including complete fabrics that customers now run in production.

Systems and virtualisation

Linux, Proxmox and Ceph, backups and migrations. We also host a limited number of systems on our own infrastructure.

Connectivity management

Choosing providers, ordering lines, backup lines with failover, and fault handling with the providers until it is fixed.

Managed services

Routers, firewalls, Wi-Fi and servers run for you, with monitoring, a support desk and an agreed service level.

Security and local AI

Routing security, hardening, and self-hosted language models for organisations that keep their data in-house.

On-site engineering

Installation, rollouts and troubleshooting at offices, factories and data centres across Europe.

Field notes

Industrial rollout

When the factory needs to run

A new industrial site in northern Czechia was about to go into production. The network fabric was causing problems, and remote troubleshooting had stopped helping. At 21:00, Silvan decided the next useful step was to be there. By the next afternoon, after two flights and a train, he was on site with the local team, and the rollout was moving again.

Turku → Helsinki → Paris → Prague → northern Czechia

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Troubleshooting

The firewall problem that wasn't a firewall problem

About 100 consultants were due to move into a new office on Monday, and on Friday the Wi-Fi was unstable. Vendor support focused on firewall rules. The real cause was lower down: the access point links kept dropping while negotiating 2.5 Gbit. Limiting the switch ports to 1 Gbit made the site stable.

21:14:13 LINK down · 21:31:45 LINK up / 1000M / stable

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How we work

You can hire us for a single day or for long-term responsibility for your infrastructure.

Engineering on demand

Single problems, troubleshooting, reviews and smaller jobs.

Project delivery

Network and infrastructure projects with design, implementation, migration and documentation.

Retained engineering

Regular engineering days, for continuity without outsourcing everything.

Managed services

Defined systems run by us, with monitoring, a support desk with tickets and an SLA. Support hours are agreed in the contract.

Before we change a system, we back up its configuration and make sure there is a second way to log in. Afterwards, you get a short written note of what we changed.

Silvan Gebhardt giving a talk — Silvan Gebhardt

openfactory nordic oy

Founded and run by Silvan Gebhardt in Turku, with customers across Europe.

We run our own commercial network, AS41666, with servers in a third-party data centre. Our monitoring, remote access and hosted systems run on it, and we use it to build and test services such as NAT64 for IPv6-only networks before we set them up for customers.

openfactory nordic oy has been an industry partner at the international exercises Locked Shields and Crossed Swords, working on infrastructure and local model serving. Our community engagement is FreeTransit (AS41051), a non-commercial network we have operated from Finland for more than five years. Silvan speaks about routing security at events such as RIPE meetings, SwiNOG and CERT-EE.

Silvan's talks, field notes and background are on pyro.institute.

Swiss roots, Finnish quality

Swiss support, Finnish forest

openfactory nordic oy is based in Turku, and the people behind it have Swiss roots. Silvan trained as an engineer in Switzerland and has lived in Finland for years. From Switzerland we bring precise work: agreed in writing, documented, and finished when we said it would be. From Finland, a calm way of dealing with problems and straight answers.

We work from Finland for customers across Europe, and travel on site when a job needs it. You can talk to us in Swiss German, German, French or English, and a little Finnish.

Have an infrastructure problem or a project in mind?

Tell us what is broken or what you are planning. A BGP problem and a new site network are both normal requests, and we can work with your team or on our own.

contact@fi.openfactory.net

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