Enterprise experience.Local commitment.
Caribbean Network and Security Solutions B.V. exists to give organizations on Bonaire access to the level of network engineering that large enterprises take for granted, without flying it in.
Why CNSS exists
Bonaire has many capable IT companies. What it has had less of is senior network engineering: the discipline of designing infrastructure with a documented architecture, securing it by structure rather than by product, and troubleshooting it from evidence rather than by replacing parts.
CNSS was founded to close that gap. It brings more than 25 years of IT and network engineering experience, gained in enterprise, government and telecommunications environments, to organizations on Bonaire and the Dutch Caribbean, and it does so as a local company that can be on site the same day.
The work spans the full path: assess the environment, design the architecture, implement it across whichever vendors fit, and support it afterwards. CNSS does not compete with an organization's IT provider. It complements one: the provider keeps the users, endpoints and helpdesk; CNSS takes the switches, routers, firewalls and wireless, and can train the team that runs them.
How CNSS works
Four commitments that apply to every engagement, whether it is a one-day troubleshooting visit or a full infrastructure redesign.
Senior expertise, directly involved
The engineer who designs the network is the engineer who implements and supports it. No hand-off to a junior team.
Independent of vendors
CNSS recommends what fits the organization across Cisco, Fortinet, Arista, Juniper, HPE Aruba Networking, Ubiquiti, Netgear and HPE. These are working platforms, not partnerships to be sold.
Documented by default
Every engagement ends with diagrams, configurations and a written record. The organization owns its network knowledge.
Available locally
Based in Kralendijk. On site when it matters, and reachable in the same time zone when something goes wrong.
Senior engineering experience behind every engagement.
One senior engineer, directly involved from the first conversation to the last change window.
Founder
Patrick Meijer
Founder & Senior Network Engineer
Working in IT since 1998.
Patrick Meijer has worked in information technology since 1998 and brings more than 25 years of professional experience across enterprise, government and telecommunications environments. He founded Caribbean Network and Security Solutions B.V. to make that level of engineering available locally on Bonaire, and he is directly involved in every CNSS engagement.
His expertise covers network architecture, network design, routing and switching, enterprise wireless, network security, complex troubleshooting and multi-vendor infrastructure. He holds a current Cisco CCNP Enterprise certification and continues advanced professional development in preparation for the Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure lab exam and Fortinet certifications.
Alongside engineering and consulting, Patrick provides practical network and cybersecurity training built on the same real-world experience.
Current certification
- Cisco CCNP EnterpriseValid through 2029 · Verify on Credly
Continuing professional development
- CCIE Enterprise InfrastructureAdvanced study and lab preparation toward Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure.
- Fortinet certificationsContinuing certification development across Fortinet network security technologies.
Education
Bachelor's degree, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1997
Expertise
- Network architecture: campus, LAN and WAN design
- Routing and switching, including VXLAN EVPN fabrics
- Enterprise wireless with controller high availability
- Firewalls, segmentation, VPN and web application firewalls
- Infrastructure monitoring and lifecycle planning
- Complex troubleshooting across multi-vendor environments
Technology experience
- Enterprise networking: Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE Aruba Networking
- Network security: Fortinet
- Business and SMB networking: Ubiquiti, Netgear
- Infrastructure: HPE
Outside of work he plays guitar, mostly bossa nova, samba and jazz. He lives in Kralendijk, Bonaire.
Based on Bonaire
CNSS is registered and based in Kralendijk, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands. Local availability is not a slogan: it means a senior engineer can be on site the same day.
Based on Bonaire, CNSS combines that local availability with regional reach: project work, consulting and specialized network support are also available to organizations in Curaçao and Aruba.
- Office
- Kaya Banjo 3B, Kralendijk
Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands - Available for projects in
- Bonaire, Curaçao and Aruba
- Technologies we work with
- Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet, Ubiquiti, Netgear, HPE
Let's talk about your network.
Planning new infrastructure, dealing with a network problem, reviewing security, or looking for an independent second opinion? CNSS can help.