“Swing low, sweet connected data network cables ………….

……… coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet Cat 5e, 6 and Fibre cables
Coming for to carry me home”

I have written many articles, which have touched on the numerous passions in my life. After all, life is nothing without passion. William Webb Ellis in 1823, picking up the ball and ran with it, and Rugby was created. ‘Ruggers!’ the noble art of battle, 15 against 15. The violence on the pitch and beer n banter afterwards. 

Like many sports, there are natural synergies with business life. You can take a lot from what sports men/women have to do, which has an association with running a business, no less with ONA and rugby.

ONA, installers of liquorice strands of Cat 5e, 6 and Fibre cables.  

Many of us use technology every day, probably most of us within our work lives. We turn up, we log in, we have our access, our portal on the wider world. No ‘crouch, touch, pause, engage’ here, although getting a cappuccino can be a bit of a tussle first thing in the morning. You simply press a little button and away you go. You think no more of it, and generally never have to. But it is not always about the hardware that you sit looking at, looking back at you.

 

For those of you that have their own ‘80 minutes’ of daily glory, with their own ‘forwards’ and ‘backs’, the [take a deep breath]; Business Support, Converging IP Solutions, EPOS Systems, IT Architecture, IT Consultancy, IT Infrastructure, IT Service & Support, Telecom Systems and even those Commercial Electrical Contractors, are all plainly aware that there is more that goes into an I.T./ Telecoms system and associated support structures, than just ‘turn up, log in and away you go’.

Getting the system right for the client, means ensuring you have the backing of the appropriate resource to provide that professional service, ensuring the correct connectivity.  

And like rugby, there is quite an extensive number of things that are needed to be considered to get the ‘connected’ game right. We as fans of the game, meet, enjoy the banter and see 80 minutes of blood, sweat and tears. But for each game there is a plethora of support staff, resource, training, more blood sweat and tears and even an I.T. Infrastructure, all of which helps the players concentrate on making the right connection on the pitch. There is so much going on behind the scenes. All of which is never seen, but will hopefully mean that your side has the ultimate opportunity to WIN!

Simply put, without good connectivity, we are nothing, well in an I.T. way that is. Good data network installation is key to an ongoing, cost effective, connective solution.

Remember Jonah Lomu? Here is part of an anonymous fax to the New Zealand rugby team in 1995, before they went out to play England - a game in which Jonah Lomu became a rugby legend.

"Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah."

Not many people made a connection on the pitch with Jonah Lomu, although Matt Perry did and to prove it 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWPmamdw8g

In fact, I met Matt Perry, ex England Full Back the other evening, nice guy! 

So hope you have enjoyed the first half in 2014 and see you on the other side in 2015, for the second half. So ‘Crouch – Touch – Pause – Engage’ in the scrum, when we will have a few more ONA passions to touch on, all with a tinge of I.T.  In the meantime here are a few famous rugby quotes from over the years for you.

http://rosshighrfc.hitsrugby.com/pages/page_3145/Famous-Rugby-Quotes.aspx
http://www.rugbybanter.com/?p=512
http://www.pinterest.com/americanrugby1/rugby-quotes/  

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