About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Digital Time Capsule From the 2000s Opened to the Public





A decades-long archive of AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icons and Away Messages has been recovered and made available to the public. A free web app lets you re-create your nostalgic AIM experience with over 50,000 icons and 3,500 away messages.

YORK, PA, August 05, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- To commemorate 25 years of social media, the creators of now extinct OriginalIcons and AimAwayMessages have resurrected their full collection of 2000s nostalgia back to life. A total of 57,423 Buddy Icons and 3,660 Away Messages have been recovered from backup drives, ready for everyone to explore once again. Through their free web app at www.myoldicons.com people can create a window into their past and share a widget decorated with their favorite Buddy Icons, Away Messages and old Screen Names.

25 years ago, AOL introduced Buddy Icons to their instant messaging service. In November 2000, John Beatty created the website AimIcons.net, the internet's first curated collection of tiny images to help people personalize their private messages. This website eventually became OriginalIcons.com, attracting millions of visitors looking to grab fresh new icons and contribute their own images to the collection.

By 2003, OriginalIcons.com had become the most visited website by teenagers in the world. The collection of icons grew, as did the number of creative contributors fueling the Buddy Icon craze. A large network of websites grew and supported each other with crosslinks offering collections of other pop culture internet media of the day. This was how the "Web" in Worldwide Web was intended to work.

Buddy Icons and Away Messages were how an entire generation shared their interests, personalities, and moods. The internet landscape and social media have evolved dramatically over the past couple of decades. Platform popularity shifted from AOL to MySpace, Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, Instagram, and Discord. For some, there will always be a fondness for the memory of that short list of friends on AIM and the quirky Away Messages they'd leave behind when they popped in for a chat.



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