Standard Patch Cable Colors

T 568b straight through ethernet cable.

Standard patch cable colors.

Both the t 568a and the t 568b standard straight through cables are used most often as patch cords for your ethernet connections. What is crossover cable. If they can t keep it neat do you expect a tech to get the correct color patch cable. Green patch running to my finance dept people they work should go smooth or i wouldn t be getting my salary on date.

Patch cable color coding standards color use white standard category 5 cable yellow single mode fiber optic cable orange multi mode fiber optic cable red cross over cable green security use cabling blue standard category 6 cable black test cable special application not sure it s really what you need though. 42 27 comment suggest a new document. One end uses the t568a wiring standard and the other end uses the t568b wiring standard. That being said as far as colors try to keep it uniform.

While ieee has long issued recommended standards for electrical and electronics design they do not actually define standard wire jacket colors for cables in the way people expect. Instead wiring color management is overseen in large part by the telecommunications industry association tia. The colors of cat5 cat5e cat6 and cat6a ethernet cables represent a specific application or system such as network connectivity or equipment connections. Red patch running to my ex gf desk easier to detect and bring it down.

Blue color patch running to my boss cabin cut it down whenever he. This is not to be confused with the color coding of the twisted internal wires contained within each cat cable. I ve only used red patch cables for something i want to call attention to. Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video.

Youve seen pictures of a messy patch panel. Ethernet cable colors and their purpose. Even if it s just you you must be very disciplined to maintain a standard. If you require a cable to connect two ethernet devices directly together without a hub or when you connect two hubs together you will need to use a crossover cable instead.

Crossover cable as the name suggests cross over or swap on its way when coming from one end to the other. Doit help desk doit staff network services systems network control center. Purple patch for the cable running to my ceo desk wouldn t want to mess with this cable.