Design Install

Perfect timing: Cabling photos

April 22, 2020

As the surrealist painter Salvador Dali once said, "Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it." Though sometimes, ICT cabling installers feel like they've come close.

Matt Vincent

Welcome to our periodic round-up of the best photos of ICT structured cabling site excellence, as submitted on social media to Reddit's 'Cableporn' sub-community.

Salvador Dali, he of the curiously melting clocks depicted in his famous surrealist painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), once said, "Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it."

Wise words for ICT structured cabling installers -- a trade whose practitioners often feel as though they've come close, as demonstrated below...

"Everybody is working from home, perfect time to clean this mess." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP [orig. poster]: u/dolenz

"Did this one last year, around 260 cables, Cat6, Belden." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/Tez-ticle

"Network upgrade for one of our customers, decided to sort their patch panel rack out." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/NullCoded

"Before/After. Just a network rack for a business. Phones and network end points throughout a building. Fibre Router > Switches > Patch Panels. Heavily neglected for years." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/ZABurner

"Happy PDUs - smiles." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/schadenfly

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]