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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Snap (SNAP)

Market Cap: $16.39 billion

Founded by Stanford University students Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy, and originally called Picaboo, Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP) is an image centric social media network.

Why Are We Hesitant About SNAP?

  1. Focus on expanding its platform has led to weaker growth in its average revenue per user
  2. Expenses have increased as a percentage of revenue over the last few years as its EBITDA margin fell by 5.2 percentage points
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Western Digital (WDC)

Market Cap: $24.08 billion

Founded in 1970 by a Motorola employee, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is a leading producer of hard disk drives, SSDs and flash memory.

Why Do We Pass on WDC?

  1. Products and services are facing significant end-market challenges during this cycle as sales have declined by 11.1% annually over the last five years
  2. Negative 21.4% gross margin means it loses money on every sale and must pivot or scale quickly to survive
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Western Digital’s stock price of $69.30 implies a valuation ratio of 14.4x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than WDC.

One Mid-Cap Stock to Watch:

Pinterest (PINS)

Market Cap: $25.49 billion

Created with the idea of virtually replacing paper catalogues, Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is an online image and social discovery platform.

Why Does PINS Stand Out?

  1. Has the opportunity to boost monetization through new features and premium offerings as its monthly active users have grown by 10.4% annually over the last two years
  2. Healthy EBITDA margin of 27% shows it’s a well-run company with efficient processes
  3. PINS is a free cash flow machine with the flexibility to invest in growth initiatives or return capital to shareholders

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