[188295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Mar 14 14:40:40 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160314114244.GH85560@void.codelabs.ru>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:39:30 -0700
To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog@grid.kiae.ru>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Mar 14, 2016, at 04:42 , Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog@grid.kiae.ru> =
wrote:
>=20
> Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Whatever you do, please do not use Flag labels on cables=E2=80=A6 I =
HATE
>> THEM. They are a constant source of entanglement and snags. They
>> often get knocked off as a result or mangled beyond recognition,
>> rendering them useless.
>=20
> Hadn't seen that for ages, using Brother P-touch printers for
> small amounts of work and Avery Zweckform paper + laser printing
> for large cable installations. This stuff (Avery paper),
> http://computing.kiae.ru/~rea/wiring-porn-2.jpeg
> lives already for 5+ years and outlived many replacements of
> spine modules (that's InfiniBand fabric) and other operations
> without labels being ruined in any way.
Sorry=E2=80=A6 To be clear, those hideous attrocities of P-Touch =
nastiness
are exactly what I meant by flag labels. I had forgotten about the
plastic zip ties with the over-sized surface on the ratchet.
Compare to:
=
http://www.cableorganizer.com/images/brady/brady-idxpert/labels-markers/im=
ages/01-idxpert-markers-labels-cables.jpg
=
http://neumannmarking.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/135866255-300x199.jpg=
=
http://www.hotblog.co.uk/boblittlepr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cable-labe=
ls_Cormant_1.jpg
Admittedly, I=E2=80=99m not wild about the bar-code scheme in the last =
one as I prefer human-readable labels, but YMMV.
Owen
