Cabling Installatin & Maintenance Magazine
Sounds like a fascinating read ;-) Frank Coluccio wrote: > Article: Abandoned Cable Removal A Dogged Challenge For All > Cabling Installatin & Maintenance Magazine > By Patrick McLaughlin | July 2007 Issue > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/32cfak > -- > As an aside, legend has it that some of the larger skyscrapers in NY City > would > crumble under the weight of the cables installed inside them --particularly > coaxial and proprietary mutli-pair cable runs that were used for market data > services and desktop video displays prior to the proliferation of Ethernet > over > fiber backbones-- running up and down vertical riser shafts, were it not for > the > bracing and additional structural supports installed after the fact to > support them. > > Frank > --- > >