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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Cable Colors
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:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:24 PM To: Peter Wohlers Cc: [email protected] 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
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