[188415] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (STARNES, CURTIS)
Mon Mar 21 11:53:55 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "STARNES, CURTIS" <Curtis.Starnes@granburyisd.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Yardiel Fuentes <yardiel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:53:51 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4C670D46-B1E4-44E4-A11A-BA2CF94A8754@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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