Re: [SAGE] Non-Orange Fiber Cables

[Graham Dunn <gdunn@inscriber.com>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:16:50AM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
[snip]
> 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.

Orange is traditionally for multimode fiber cables, yellow for
singlemode.

Those aren't interchangeable, so be careful about getting cable based
solely on the cable jacket colour.

Graham