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Top 10 goriest cable fails: Cabling photos

Jan. 6, 2023

Our periodic recounting of "the best of the worst" of maladaptive cabling scenes glimpsed lately within the photo subgroups for chronicling conditions of "cablefail" and "cablegore" at social media's Reddit.

Matt Vincent

An ICT technician handling unruly cabling within a data center.

It's time again for our periodic recounting of "the best of the worst" of the latest cabling scenes glimpsed within the photo subgroups for chronicling conditions of "cablefail" and "cablegore" at social media's Reddit, in the site's eponymous communities particularly geared toward working ICT and IT professionals in the field.

Our top 10 goriest cable fails come in unranked order, wending through campus, commercial, and residential deployments of OSP fiber and cable broadband systems, as well as data center and server room connectivity of all varieties, dipping a toe into broadcast and Pro AV over IP networking, and even traveling inside the results of the tester that found the RJ45 Ethernet cable that killed a POE switch.

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About the Author

Matt Vincent | Senior Editor

Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]