Over the past thirty years, computers have established themselves at the heart of our world. If we're booking a train ticket, ordering a book or registering a child for school, there will be a computer involved somewhere along the line. Probably several. Even in these days of ethernet, Wi-Fi and "the cloud", there is plenty of hard information whizzing about. Little electrical impulses zipping along wires to tell us when our train is due to depart, how much money there is left in our bank account, or how long we are allowed to stay in a car park. In the nineteenth century it was the canals, in the twentieth century it was the roads, in the twenty-first century it is computer network cabling that carries the hard product of our economy.

Computer network cabling provides a variety of options to match your individual needs, requirements and preferences. Booted, non-booted and moulded cables are all available. Booting a computer network cable makes it much simpler to remove from a bundle, as well as giving it added strain relief. A snag-free tab surrounds the plug end of the cable.

Non-booted, or “standard” is preferred by those who require cabling for a high density environment. The server stack of a busy organisation can be a bird’s nest of tangled cables and non-booted computer network cabling allows multiple cables to be fitted into sockets very close together. The squeezable design also makes it simple to plug in and out.

Moulded computer network cabling is similarly easy to plug in and out. The cable cover and plug are moulded together, incorporating the tremendous strain relief properties of a booted computer network cabling assembly without the added bulk. The pay off is that moulded computer network cabling does not have the snag-free tab of a booted cable, so may be slightly more difficult to remove from a bundle.

If you are not really worried about space yet still require the strength of a moulded assembly as well as the snag-free tab of booted computer network cabling, moulded snagless cables can combine the best of both worlds. This strong and snag-free design is suitable for those who are frequently have to build and take apart their network set up, e.g. travelling businessmen, IT experts and specialists, and so on.

Computer network cabling are available in a variety of colours. This may sound like a minor detail, but the colouring of your cables has a number of notable uses. If the cabling is going to be on show, then the choice of colours can be an important aesthetic choice. The front desk of a blue chip company doesn’t want to be messed up with multi-coloured cables lying all over the place. While efforts can be made to hide the computer network cabling away as much as possible, muted or smart can prevent them drawing the eye. If your computer network cabling is hidden away in a server room, colouring can help keep a track of which cables do what. Any IT specialist will tell you that a server room can quickly and easily become a jungle of hanging veins/cables; a clear and simple colour code can help make sense of the mess.

Horribly techy it may be, but computer network cabling is a practical necessity. Having the right cable for the right job can make your job a lot easier: not to mention saving your poor fingers as you struggle to plug fiddly cables in and out.