Lightning Round: Q&A on the cabling industry's hottest topics

Watch the flagship episode Cablinginstall.com's Lightning Round, a stand-up Q-and-A of selected experts on the cabling industry's hottest current topics of news and technology advancements. Below, I interview Cabling Installation and Maintenance's chief editor, Patrick McLaughlin.

Here are the Lightning Round's questions:

1.)  Which news from the world of cabling standards in 2012 will have greater implications for network infrastructure professionals going forward in 2013 – the approval of the TIA-606-B data center standard, or the recent announcement of the TIA’s Category 8 designation for next generation of twisted-pair cabling specifications?

2.)  Which IT CEO legend made the following prediction in a nationally known IT technology publication of circa 1993 – and I quote – “Wireless computing will flop – permanently.” Was it:

a. Oracle’s Larry Ellison
b. Apple’s Tim Cook
c. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe
d. Cisco’s John Chambers

3.)  What will be the bigger “game-changer” for network cabling deployments in 2013:  the preponderance of pre-terminated fiber systems -- or the rise of distributed antenna system, or DAS, technologies?

Watch the Q&A Lightning Round