[188276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk)
Mon Mar 14 06:28:35 2016
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:28:20 +0000
From: A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk
To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi,
I'm not sure I'm keen on a colour standard - especially given our recent difficulties
sourcing cabling to our spec in certain colours...or lengths! however, what we do - and others
do based on this thread - is have our own internal colour scheme for purposes/systems/customers.
fibre is far more difficult for this - coloured labels (and a decent labelling regime in the first place)
win in that arena. (obviously the copper plant has labelling too but the choice of colours means
that function/purpose is already known from many metres away ;-) )
alan
