Perseverance: Cabling photos

"Perseverence will get you anywhere."

It's an old-sounding maxim for a new day -- and far from an alien concept for installers and maintainers of ICT and IT cabling and connectivity systems, as seen in photos (and one very special photo) recently submitted to Reddit's social media subcommunity dedicated to the trade...

"250 Cat 6A terminated." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP [orig. poster]: u/itachiT2

"Commscope Cat 7 with the craziest patching schedule. Lidl Comms room." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/Difficult_Quiet_6190

"DOCSIS headend tech first year.... 54 nodes built later. 59quad shield. We are completely rebuilding the combining and return splitting of 270 nodes over the next 4 months." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/der4ng3d

"First cable cleanup attempt! Honestly, the Arubas were installed prior to my coming on board. I installed (buried at the top) the additional Meraki MS120-48FP, which is the route we’ll go in the future for the rest as well. For us, we don’t do any crazy routing, vlans, etc. This building's a 100 years old and this telco room’s been mismanaged for decades; definitely wouldn’t have been my first choice to add a half rack below the wall mounted racks, but it was already there bolted to the floor lol." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/pmorin814

"Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover wiring. This beauty [just] landed on Mars!

Original Caption Released with Image:

In the image, taken on June 1, 2019, an engineer in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, can be seen working on the exposed belly of the Mars 2020 rover. It has been inverted to allow the 2020 engineers and technicians easier access. The front of the rover is on camera left. The engineer is inspecting wiring directly above the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument. MOXIE will demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing.

In the foreground, just to the left of center and distinctive because of the relative lack of wiring, is the body unit for the SuperCam instrument. The mast unit for SuperCam instrument, which will provide imaging, chemical composition analysis, and mineralogy from its high perch at the top of the rover's remote sensing mast was installed June 25.

To the far left, covered by a red-colored shield, is the bay where the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) will document, analyze and process for storage samples of Mars rock and soil for future return to Earth.

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/."

-- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/AlfaFoxAlfa

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Matt Vincent

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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]