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See no cable fail: Photos

March 6, 2020

Cable fails as bad as these will make a monkey out of the best ICT installers.

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Welcome to our periodic round-up of the most impossible-to-unsee structured cabling fails, as posted in photos to social media at Reddit's 'Cablefail' and 'Cablegore' sub-communities.

You're heard of the Three Wise Monkeys -- aka the primates of "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" fame? Cable fails as bad as these will make a monkey out the best ICT technician -- AND they're hard not to gossip about...

"Someone on site cut out the cable tray all our wire was pulled into..." -- Reddit OP [orig. poster]: u/kreg_gneiss

"Spaghetti." -- Reddit OP: u/crunchb33ri3s

"Company phone vendor came out yesterday and said their phone problem was an issue on our end. It's not." -- Reddit OP: u/El_Captain_Steve

"Fiber fail." -- Reddit OP: u/joshcam

"Way too many zip ties." -- Reddit OP: u/fantasyTim

Send your must-see cabling photos to [email protected].

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]