The Siemon Company is a manufacturer and designer of network cabling and coupling devices based in Watertown, Connecticut.

The six feeder primary schools received a collaborative project grant from the LEA of about £2,000 to pay for their new network cabling.

Earlier this year, some 100,000 volunteers installed network cabling in 4,000 schools around the nation as part of a continuing program called Net Day 96.

Low Smoke Zero Halogen, a type of cable jacketing used in the manufacture of industrial and network cabling.

Utility tunnels carry everything from drinking water to power to fiber-optic network cabling.

Subsequent purchases, network cabling and other services have been provided in response to demands from individual Departments.

A router or intelligent switch will be needed when the network cabling is extended in 1995/96.

A failure at any point of the network cabling tends to prevent all communications.

"We expect that in a few years, almost all new construction will include network cabling," said Michael Kwatinetz, a market analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston.

This cable is typically flat (and has a light blue color) to help distinguish it from other types of network cabling.