Timelapse DC rack re-cabling; CES and BICSI product coverage: The week's top stories

Here are the cabling and wireless infrastructure industry's top 5 trending news stories from the past week, as compiled by Cabling Installation & Maintenance and CablingInstall.com.

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

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

At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Cognitive Systems Corp. (Ontario, Canada), an RF technology specialist, announced the launch of Aura, an intelligent home security system that uses the company's patented spectrum analytics technology to detect and monitor motion.

MicroCare Corporation will introduce the Sticklers brand Cassette CleanClicker at the 2017 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition, taking place January 23-26.

4.) Lutron expands smart home wireless control capabilities to ceiling fans

Smart home specialist Lutron Electronics announced the compatibility of its Caséta Wireless system with new Wi-Fi and Apple HomeKit-enabled Symphony and Signal ceiling fans from Hunter Fan Company.

5.) Half a million 802.11ac Wave 2 access points shipped in Q3

IHS Markit also reported that WLAN equipment sales totaled $1.4 billion globally in the third quarter of 2016.

MUST-SEE PHOTOS: Snow day MDF re-cabling

School was out for the day, so the departmental IT tech got to work on this "extra credit" cabling dress-down...

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