David Coulson wrote:
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.
Labeling is good. As I've tried to follow the pace of this thread, I
appreciate where someone else stated that (paraphrased) "males
essentially have a problem with identifying colours". I personally am
relatively colour blind (mostly red-orange are the same, as is black-green).
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 :)
A very good friend of mine who is relatively quite older than I, used to
run what we (I) would call now the 'IT' department in the Butterfield
Bank of Bermuda way back years ago (relative), showed me pictures of
closets which had numerous hundreds of Token Ring MAU connectors,
attached to cabling dozens of feet long stretched down a corridor 100'
at least after an effort to 'untangle' the typical 'this needs to be
patched *to this floor*'.
I will forever remember those pictures, and forever know that no matter
how badly labeled/coloured an Ethernet infrastructure environment is, it
can never be as bad as having several hundreds of cables as thick as my
baby finger, all the same colour, entangled in a mess worse than
anything I've seen.
I would like to know ANYONE who has a policy strict enough, and enforces
it so as to have even an almost perfect cabling infrastructure...is
there such a thing?
God bless CATx cable, especially when it terminates within the same area
that it originates from ;)
Steve
