[188421] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (STARNES, CURTIS)
Mon Mar 21 15:51:58 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "STARNES, CURTIS" <Curtis.Starnes@granburyisd.org>
To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:51:49 +0000
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