Oppinions vary. There really is no standard. Most important is picking something meaningful to you. Here, I use: yellow general ethernet green serial connection blue long distance ethernet (ie, going to another row) black crossover red T1s, etc white permenant drops to cabinets, lashed down and brown cat3 for POTs lines Some people use like dark blue for the first ethernet connection to a machine and light blue for the second connection. It really just depends on what you want to accomplish. Just pick something tha tworks for you and stick with it. On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
JoeSox wrote:
Hello Newbie here (hopefully I have the correct list),
I was just wondering if anyone knows of a website with recommended colors for cables for a new datacenter? I have written some things down but I don't want to get stuck saying 'darn, I wish I would have bought this color for this type, now I am stuck'. What standard color to use if voice and data on same interface etc. Thanks.
Hmm. I've always done blue for "safe" or "internal" connections, red for machines on the DMZ or outside.
Perhaps Blue for internal data, Yellow for internal voice, Green for data/voice?
Don't know if there's a website on this, but you can definitely read about it in Tom Limoncelli's The Practice of System and Network Administration book.
Best, --Glenn
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