The one major disadvantage of working in Wi-Fi is that you end up coming into contact with a lot of cabling. An awful lot of cabling.

People are often surprised at the kilometres of cabling that we install each month, considering our love and passion for the art of good Wi-Fi. But cabling is our necessary evil.

We’ve developed partnerships with a number of elite data cabling manufacturers, with a number of accreditations being undertaken to ensure we are at the forefront of techniques and new technologies.

But, along the way, we bump into installations that are the stuff of nightmares – cabling nightmares that wake us up in the night sweating.

When initially installing a data network, everyone involved sets off with the best of intentions. It looks beautiful, all cables are routed, labelled and numbered, with little slack and all coming from the same source. Cable ties are a plenty, and it is the OCD stuff of dreams.

But, then, something goes wrong, other suppliers get involved, and everything begins to go awry. And then another thing happens, more people come and put new cables over the top, broken boxes are left in the rack powered off, and cables ends are left to sway in the breeze of the nearest air conditioning unit.

When that happens, and it inevitably does, our work diagnosing issues is made so much more difficult. It can take hours sorting through cable racks and channels figuring out where something should go. Absolute hours – and it can all be avoided.

Good cable management saves time, reduces the amount of equipment (and therefore electricity) permanently powered on, and makes finding issues so much quicker.

A little bit of tidying never hurt anyone.