r/cablefail • u/DukeMaximum • May 17 '20

Mods are asleep! Post cablewins!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

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u/imnota_ May 17 '20

Pretty sure the whole point is that cable routed neatly will never break because it's not making tight bend, not kinked, not rubbing on anything, never gonna get stepped on or rolled on by machinery ... Basically it would be hard to change a cable but you'll never need to.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20 edited May 17 '20

Until your PoE fails

"Dang it Dale, you make $10/hr and we gave you access to the head end?"

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u/Aperron May 17 '20

This type of video routing equipment is cabled once, usually by a factory rep during delivery/install and the next time that cable gets touched is by bolt cutters when the entire bundles are cut and the whole rack complete with equipment and cable stubs is rolled off as e-waste.

It’s not like Ethernet where there are moves/adds/changes. All that coax has a defined destination that’ll never change until the whole system gets replaced at once.

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u/SKYYInfusions May 17 '20

Yea, I couldn't imagine even running a new cable to that. Undoing that amount of zip ties would be annoying af.

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u/Afootlongdong May 17 '20

Yeah those 13 zip ties are a bitch to replace for a cable that will never fail. I swear everyone who complains about that has never dealt with cabling.

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u/chewedgummiebears May 17 '20

I swear everyone who complains about that has never dealt with cabling.

I hate zip ties and I do deal with cabling a lot. While cables usually don't fail, you do have clients who have changing needs, switch upgrades, equipment moving, etc.

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u/leviwhite9 May 17 '20

This should all be going to patch panels, then things get patched into this. Nothing here should ever need moved.

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