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Cable art: Photos

Sept. 16, 2020

The most well-done ICT structured cabling installation jobs may indeed qualify as a kind of art.

If it's irresistable to characterize the most well-done ICT structured cabling jobs as a kind of art -- it might be because they ARE a kind of art, as often noted at Reddit's social media sub-community dedicated to collecting such photos. Here endeth the (cabling) lesson...

"Cable Art." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP [orig. poster]: u/sarge-m

"These zip ties blend in so well." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/sarge-m

"Server cabling." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/schadenfly

"Zip ties with a twist." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/suburbanite09

"A labor of pure love. Notice how the cable bundles are supported in two places, on the side of the rack and right before they get terminated into the keystone jacks. These cables won’t be coming loose anytime soon. Although the colors look nice, they are actually used to help identify VLANs (phones, APs, IPCams, etc)." -- Reddit/Cableporn OP: u/sarge-m

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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]