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Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:39:30 -0700
On Mar 14, 2016, at 04:42 , Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog () grid kiae ru> wrote: Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 05:10:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:Whatever you do, please do not use Flag labels on cables… 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.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… 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/images/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-labels_Cormant_1.jpg Admittedly, I’m not wild about the bar-code scheme in the last one as I prefer human-readable labels, but YMMV. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema, (continued)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Baldur Norddahl (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Nick Pratley (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Oliver O'Boyle (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Oliver O'Boyle (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Owen DeLong (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Baldur Norddahl (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Owen DeLong (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Aaron C. de Bruyn (Mar 21)
- RE: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema STARNES, CURTIS (Mar 21)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Aled Morris (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema A . L . M . Buxey (Mar 14)
- Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema Owen DeLong (Mar 14)