Re: [SAGE] Non-Orange Fiber Cables

[Phil Pennock <phil.pennock@globnix.org>]

On 2004-08-17 at 10:16 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> At the colo, we've got a color-coding system for our cables, and we 
> obey it fairly strictly (there are some inbound cross-connect cables 
> that originate outside our cage, but we can't control those). In our 
> color coding scheme, orange is for an ethernet crossover cable.
> 
> But now we're in the process of installing a SAN, using fibre-channel, 
> and all the cables I seem to find seem to be orange. I could have sworn 
> I've seen yellow cables (a color that's not presently in use in our 
> scheme), but I can't seem to find anyone that sells 5M LC/LC optical 
> cables.

AIUI the fiber stuff has an industry colour code already in use; Orange
for a particular multi-mode, etc.  That's what I was told by our Network
Engineer.

Googling gives me:

  62.5/125 multimode     grey
  50/125 multimode       orange
  singlemode             yellow

Allegedly covered as part of ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-A, "Commercial Building
Telecommunications Cabling Standard"

-Phil