[105250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Jun 16 19:10:11 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:02:40 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4388DD56-30A1-4A86-824A-EEAE2F021D21@delong.com> from "Owen
DeLong" at Jun 16, 2008 03:56:45 PM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> I don't know of any hard standard in use anywhere. I've generally taken
> to the following:
>
> Green == low-bandwidth straigh-through
> Telephone, T1, Serial, etc.
> Purple == Roll Cables (almost always serial, sometimes telecom)
> (8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 4-5 3-6 2-7 1-8)
> Orange(C) == EIA-568b cross-over cable (ethernet xover)
> Orange(F) == Multimode Fiber
> Yellow(F) == Singlemode Fiber
> White == Clear (inside VPN concentrator network)
> Black == Crypt (Outside VPN concentrator network)
> Blue == Publicly accessible networks
> Red == Backend (usually OOB management) networks
> Pink == KVM (KVM switch <-> Dongle)
>
> Occasionally I encounter needs for greater specificity, but, these
> usually do most of what I need.
Oh. That was the other thing I was going to say. Reserving some colors
for "special purposes" is a good idea.
... JG
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