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Pick a colour that you'll only ever use for _temporary_ connections in the machine room. Helps focus the mind on the bodges that need removing some time down the line.
And get uniquely numbered cables from a data cabling specialist, in 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 metre lengths. Record *all* patching in a spreadsheet. And if that gets out of date, you can audit cable ends (good YTS job that
and throw some scripting magic at it to trace connections from end to end. Needs good cross/inter-rack patching though.
Get lots of cable management gadgets and use them religiously. Get extra protection for any fibre otherwise it'll get buggered by someone ham-fisted strapping a bit of cat 5 in place.
If you can, avoid any patching under the floor, that makes life hell.
If there's egg sucking there, I apologise. Current workplace has nightmare structured cabling.
And get uniquely numbered cables from a data cabling specialist, in 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 metre lengths. Record *all* patching in a spreadsheet. And if that gets out of date, you can audit cable ends (good YTS job that
and throw some scripting magic at it to trace connections from end to end. Needs good cross/inter-rack patching though. Get lots of cable management gadgets and use them religiously. Get extra protection for any fibre otherwise it'll get buggered by someone ham-fisted strapping a bit of cat 5 in place.
If you can, avoid any patching under the floor, that makes life hell.
If there's egg sucking there, I apologise. Current workplace has nightmare structured cabling.
white/orange - orange - white/green - blue - white/blue - green - white/brown - brown.
This is the standard order. If you do it this way it will make it far easier for anyone else that does some work in the future.
If you do it your own way, one of these days you'll have some know it all cabling guy sucking air through his teeth, frowning and asking who did the work for you as they ought to be shot .....
hope this helps :-)
This is the standard order. If you do it this way it will make it far easier for anyone else that does some work in the future.
If you do it your own way, one of these days you'll have some know it all cabling guy sucking air through his teeth, frowning and asking who did the work for you as they ought to be shot .....
hope this helps :-)
I must admit, at the new place where I now work, they used grey for PC's and Yellow for Phones.
I found some green for firewalls and an odd orange for something weird.
Seeing as my favourite colour is purple, I'm replacing cables as I go with purple for pc's, and when we get a new phone system, hmm let me see...
I feel like red today...
Edited to add: How gay do I sound?
>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Monday 14th March 14:15
I found some green for firewalls and an odd orange for something weird.
Seeing as my favourite colour is purple, I'm replacing cables as I go with purple for pc's, and when we get a new phone system, hmm let me see...
I feel like red today...
Edited to add: How gay do I sound?
>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Monday 14th March 14:15
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