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ISP/OSP quandaries: Cable photos

Aug. 29, 2019

Cable fail location is always an equal-opportunity proposition.

Welcome to our periodic round-up of the most problematic structured cabling site work failures, as glimpsed on social media at Reddit's photo sub-community for 'Cablefail.'

Cable fail location is always an equal-opportunity proposition -- ICT technicians are just as apt to find problems abounding on the inside, as well as in the outside, plant. Here's a sampling of both:

"I ahhh, what?" -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: l0rdrav3n

"This is fun." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: xXilumintaiXx

"That's how you do it..." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: IDGAFMFROFL

"Found this during a site walk after demo." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: Bakedinstall

"Coax, coax everywhere. This is from a major telecom producer's R&D department. It is also why the researchers lost their access to rooms like this. :) What you see is several GSM networks over cable." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: monotux

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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]