[54900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: standard network symbols/icons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Mon Jan 20 12:44:40 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:44:30 -0500
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
To: NANOG List <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michael.Hawk@i-structure.com wrote:
>
> Do any of the standards organizations (ISO?) have a set of icons/symbols to
> represent network devices ranging from routers to servers to load balancers?
> I've always used the basic Cisco and Juniper icons, but I'm being directed
> to find something not associated with a vendor in *any* way, but prettier
> than rectangular boxes.
I don't know of standards for this, but what I most often find in
presentations is:
- Router: a cylinder with a 4-headed diagonal arrow on the upper surface
- server: a generic mainframe-looking rack
- host: a generic PC-looking computer icon
If you use PowerPoint 2000 (I don't about other versions), the
"Networking" category of the "More autoshapes" dialog has several icons
for various kinds of hosts and servers. Unfortunately, it doesn't
include the router icon that I described above.
-- David
