VOLUME 38 NO. 03 • MARCH 2018
SPECIAL FEATURE: CABLING & CABLE MANAGEMENT
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CABLES ARE HERE TO STAY, SAYS PRYSMIAN The headlines might be all about wireless technology, but even the most advanced devices rely on an infrastructure of cable to function – and that isn’t going to change any time soon, says Simon Hopkins, a member of the Future Thinking Team at Prysmian UK. It’s this type of cable knitting that really gets under the skin of technology users and generates a huge sigh of relief when a phone company introduces a wireless charging unit, or Bluetooth technology allows us to connect devices without wires. The technology already exists to dispense with all of this commodity cable and, on
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As I write this article, I am sitting at a desk covered with cables. My computer, screen and keyboard are all connected by a cable while my phone and headphones are also still tethered through the use of cable. Under the desk, well, that’s simply a cable spaghetti of power leads and phone lines.
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my part, it’s only inertia and a reluctance to invest in replacing a perfectly functional system that prevents me from sorting it out. However, all of this is pretty superficial and the devices I’m using simply provide access to the communication networks that actually run the modern world. Those networks continue to rely on cable.
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