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Re: Cable Colors

  • From: David Coulson
  • Date: Tue Jun 17 00:44:08 2008
Steve Bertrand wrote:
LOL, simplicity via obscurity at its finest ;)

Colour coding works great, and it's easy to follow. Then there is that issue that pops up where *that* cable over there will work!

90% of our movable cable patches (aka stuff that is not hard wired into a patch panel) are less than three feet long and are totally enclosed within individual racks (e.g. server to top of rack switch, switch to patch panel, other side of patch panel to core) - Each end of the cable is labeled, so it's pretty easy to trace it.

I care more about cable management when you have something like a 6513 with a bunch of 48 port Ethernet blades. Not figured out a way to deal with that which doesn't look like complete crap - Doesn't matter what color they are. The vertical 7600s/6509-VE models are nice, but of course, we don't have those :)

David