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Re: Cable Colors
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan () verneglobal com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:15:42 -0000
This seems like a good demarcation for the colors, but two things. Its a bit more expensive, and, it typically makes for a pretty mess. You're talking pre determined cable lengths for the most part. I tend to avoid patch cables like the plague and invest in long term deployments cut to length. Intelligently strapping in mostly permanent wiring should be worth the investment and reduce outages in the long run. The colors don't hurt. Best, Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> To: Glenn Sieb <ges () wingfoot org> Cc: nanog () nanog org <nanog () nanog org> Sent: Mon Jun 16 22:56:45 2008 Subject: Re: Cable Colors I don't know of any hard standard in use anywhere. I've generally taken to the following: Green == low-bandwidth straigh-through Telephone, T1, Serial, etc. Purple == Roll Cables (almost always serial, sometimes telecom) (8-1 7-2 6-3 5-4 4-5 3-6 2-7 1-8) Orange(C) == EIA-568b cross-over cable (ethernet xover) Orange(F) == Multimode Fiber Yellow(F) == Singlemode Fiber White == Clear (inside VPN concentrator network) Black == Crypt (Outside VPN concentrator network) Blue == Publicly accessible networks Red == Backend (usually OOB management) networks Pink == KVM (KVM switch <-> Dongle) Occasionally I encounter needs for greater specificity, but, these usually do most of what I need. I'm sure others use entirely different choices. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Cable Colors, (continued)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Matthew Kaufman (Jun 16)
- RE: Cable Colors Blake Pfankuch (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors William Herrin (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Michael Smith (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Christian Koch (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Michael Smith (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Christian Koch (Jun 16)
- RE: Cable Colors Mike Donahue (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Martin Hannigan (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Martin Hannigan (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors David Barak (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Marc Manthey (Jun 17)