Top 10 Cabling Fails

    July 3, 2023
    Not everyone keeps their cabling tidy. Here are some scenes of ICT cabling nightmares, as found in photos shared on social media.
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    This article originally appeared on Cabling Installation and Maintenance, an Endeavor Business Media partner site, with reporting by Matthew Vincent, Senior Editor, Cabling Installation & Maintenance.

    Today's round-up of ICT cabling and connectivity hysteria and malfeasance as displayed in trade photos found within topical IT subgroups at social media's Reddit almost defies words, other than the nominal ones of cablefail and cablegore. But we can number them...

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