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Nasty cable fails: Photos

Oct. 9, 2020

We'll just let the pictures do the talking.

Some of the nastiest ICT cabling fails you'll ever see are regularly collected from far and wide at Reddit's social media sub-communities for r/Cablefail and r/Cablegore. We'll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking...

"Sure I can find port K1...what the what?!? This is a hotel MDF. I believe it links the PMS [property management system] with the PBX to facilitate billing." -- Reddit/Cablegore OP [orig. poster]: u/BigDaddy850

“We haven’t upgraded in a while.” -- Reddit/Cablegore OP: u/RadiologisttPepper

"Moving out of our office meant taking a trip into this nightmare of a room!" -- Reddit/Cablegore OP: u/citizenpot

"Hasn’t even opened yet. Brand new install." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP: u/thekush

"Cablers pulled copper over existing fiber jumper." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP: u/jongaynor

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]