Give me a link to the labeling section and I'll let you know if I've seen it in the wild. I'm out in the field now (got sick of the desk) and see a lot of commercial/retail plants.
I doubt that it's going on in retail, except maybe Lowe's Hardware. They do love MM fiber and just did a nation-wide network upgrade to gigabit everywhere in the stores. But then again, the label specs were kinda hit and miss. Sadly I've seen no IPv6 in any retail shops. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D. <chi...@chipps.com>wrote: > I don't suppose anyone follows the TIA-606-B Administration Standard for > the > Telecommunications Infrastructure of Commercial Buildings when labeling > things like cables. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:42 PM > To: William Herrin > Cc: NANOG > Subject: Re: Which P-Touch should I have? > > > > > For cable labeling I've had good results with 3M Scotch Super88 color > > electrical tape. Pick unique color bands for each cable. Band it > > identically at both ends. You don't have to squint to see how it's > > labeled. And the label isn't invalidated merely because you unplugged > > it from one place and plugged it in somewhere else. > > > > I usually use labels printed on all sides in about a 14 point font that > have > a unique number followed by a - and a length. So, for example, 10294-4.5 is > a 4.5' long cable number 10294. > > You might need to squint a bit to read it, but, 14 points is usually pretty > legible and being printed 4 times on the label (3 of which remain visible > on > the average cat5/cat6 cable) means you usually don't have to futz with > twirling the cable to find the label. > > I usually have the labels installed ~2" from the plug at each end. > > In a crowded deployment, I think the color bands would be like trying to > read resistor color codes in a box of ~1,000 mixed resistors. You're going > to end up squinting anyway. With my tactic, you have the additional > advantage that you get a defined search radius within which the other end > can be located. > > Using serial-number labels instead of equipment-specific labels means that > mine aren't invalidated either. > > Owen > > > > > >