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AI-Driven Design • Structure • Security • Management

One Partner to Architect, Deploy, Protect and Evolve Your Company's IP Estate

XOtavo / shoo-TAH-voh / — from the Portuguese enxotar: to scare off, to drive out — keeping intruders away

Your IP estate, the sum of every connected device that powers your business, is your structural foundation! We manage it as one living system, architected, deployed, protected, and evolved by the same team of engineers.

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⚠ Actively Exploited Now CISA KEV
  • Live feed from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: the flaws attackers are exploiting in the wild right now. XOtavo monitoring watches it continuously and checks it against every device on a client network.
Latest Critical Vulnerabilities NIST NVD
  • Live feed from the NIST National Vulnerability Database: the newest critical-severity vulnerabilities, CVSS 9.0 and above. Updated continuously and cross-checked against the systems we manage.
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Internet threat condition: monitored 24×7

These live feeds are the intelligence our AI monitoring acts on. Is your IP estate on them?

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U.S. Low Voltage and 4MIPS are now XOtavo — five decades of infrastructure and managed intelligence under one team, one number, one accountable partner.

Proof, not just promises

What one accountable partner actually changes

Three recent engagements where XOtavo took ownership of the whole environment. Clients anonymized; outcomes are real.

Resort community developer · 30-year incumbent IT provider

A neglected estate, rebuilt and made cheaper to run

$20kcut from monthly IT spend after the redesign, so the overhaul paid for itself within a year
1service call in the following year, down from outages every week or two
100%of existing vendors kept, with their roles re-scoped rather than ripped out

33-location automotive group · ~$2B annual sales

Standardized across sites, and proven under fire

~36 hrsto get cars, parts, and service selling again after a security breach, versus the internal team's six-week estimate
33dealerships brought to one standard for phones, network, and support
1accountable partner answering to the CEO, instead of a patchwork of vendors arguing with each other

Distribution campus · 52 acres, indoor and outdoor

Wall-to-wall wireless, engineered for the building it runs in

52 acof wall-to-wall Wi-Fi coverage, indoors and across the outdoor campus
250 ftaisles with 40-foot shelving, engineered with per-aisle access points and antennas, plus RFID readers that locate inventory fast
HAhigh-availability Fortinet firewalls with failover, and fiber replacing copper between every cabinet, inside and across the site

Credentials and manufacturer partnerships

Woman-owned business Five decades in the field Siemon Certified Installer Fortinet Cisco Microsoft Huntress Kaseya AXIS Biamp AtlasIED
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"If we build it, it will run."

And if someone else built it — we'll make it run right.

Why One Partner Matters

You didn't start your business to be a project manager for technology vendors. Every time there's an issue, you're pulled into the same exhausting role — coordinating between vendors instead of running your business. You're forced to spend time away from leading the organization, stuck acting as a referee, translator, and traffic cop between vendors who are more interested in avoiding blame than solving the issue.

XOtavo is the buffer between you and that chaos. We sit above your technology stack as an orchestrator. If a vendor isn't performing, we can replace them with another vendor of your choice or our own team. If you have incumbents you need to keep, we manage them. Either way, you get one accountable partner instead of a patchwork of logos.

We provide a single point of truth for your IP estate — one place where all the tickets, metrics, and performance data come together. That visibility makes it clear who's actually delivering, where the gaps are, and what needs to change. We handle the escalation, coordination, and execution so you don't have to.

The result is operational clarity. You regain the bandwidth to lead your organization with the confidence that your foundation is secure, seamless, and fully accounted for.

The name is deliberate. XOtavo comes from the Portuguese enxotar — to scare off, to drive out. It is the verb for turning something away before it settles in, which is exactly the job: intruders spotted, isolated, and put back outside, across every system that speaks IP. The XO is deliberate too — you command, we run the ship. XOtavo is a woman-owned business, independently owned and operated.

2007managed intelligence practice founded
Coast to CoastU.S. service area, 48 states
Tier 1–3U.S.-based engineers
Woman-Ownedindependently owned and operated

Frequently Asked Questions

Is XOtavo a woman-owned business?

Yes. XOtavo is a woman-owned business, independently owned and operated.

What does XOtavo do?

XOtavo designs, installs, secures and manages the systems that run on a business network — structured cabling and fiber, network security, managed IT, IP telephony and contact centers, enterprise Wi-Fi, surveillance and access control, sound masking and paging, commercial AV and digital signage, lighting and energy management, backup and disaster recovery, and Microsoft 365 and cloud services.

Where is XOtavo located, and do you work outside Houston?

XOtavo is based in Jersey Village, in the Houston area, and delivers projects nationwide. We work remotely and at client locations; there is no walk-in office, so reach us at 713.980.2000 or help@xotavo.com.

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