Amateurs, please step away from the patch cords: The week's top stories

Here are the cabling, wireless, and data center infrastructure industry's top trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

1.) When amateurs are in charge of cabling decisions

Repeat after me: “Clients should never be allowed to install their own patch cords.”

2.) Server room cabling disaster gets big time makeover

Posted to Youtube last month by LinusTechTips, new videos depict a soup-to-nuts server room cable management and re-organization project.

3.) Endface contamination will degrade your fiber network

By BRIAN TEAGUE, Sticklers Fiber Optic Cleaners - Because dust particles are so small, dust can be locked into place on and endface by an electrostatic charge. This can have a huge and deleterious effect on performance of the fiber.

4.) Spectacular data center cabling

"Data Center Cabling: Examples of what it SHOULD look like."

5.) Watch this time-lapse untangling of a data center rack

Via Youtube capture, one data center cabling installer documents his meticulous untangling of a particularly gnarly IT wiring nightmare.

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