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RE: Cable Colors
From: Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch () cpgreeley com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:18:06 -0600
Course it can still get a little rough. In our noc we have a well working standard. Blue == IPKVM Black == Internal Data VLAN Red == WAN VLAN Green == Client managed device Yellow == Client device (we manage) White == to Desktop (or phone) Pink == iSCSI Orange == SAN fiber Sadly we don't have any white and red (as someone else pointed out. Poor new tech with no fingers) -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matthew () eeph com] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:24 PM To: Peter Wohlers Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Cable Colors Peter Wohlers wrote:
As you can see, by and large, people assign colors to functions. What color to what function varies like the wind. Unlike a previous employer whose colo-manager person insisted on using colors to represent cable lengths (Doh!), color -> function mapping seems pretty universal.
I used to do that too... Until I stood behind a rack trying to figure out which of the 70 or so gray wires from the switch was the one going to the box I was having the problem with. Then I bought as many different colors as I could find, and mixed things up a bit. Matthew Kaufman
Current thread:
- Re: Cable Colors, (continued)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard George Imburgia (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard JoeSox (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard Glen Turner (Jun 19)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard Nathan Ward (Jun 19)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard Tim Jackson (Jun 19)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 16)
- RE: Cable Colors Blake Pfankuch (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Christian Koch (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Michael Smith (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)