[OT] Labeling wires

[Gordon Marx]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Rich Braun <richb-RBmg6HWzfGThzJAekONQAQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> What I did was assign a primary color to each Ethernet switch, and (other than
> the uplinks) *all* cables connected into each switch are all the same color.

STARS (US Terminal Air Traffic Control software) uses the same scheme
-- quadruple network connections (A and B lan, primary and backup),
blue/red/yellow/green cabling. Makes it dead simple to wire everything
(each machine gets one of the four color cables, each switch [hub]
gets the same color). Fiber for the switch interconnections meant that
you didn't even need a different color for uplinks, and you can just
look at the switch to see where someone miswired it :--)

Gordon