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 ---