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Cable Color Standards

This document lists the cable color standards that we have chosen for cables on campus.

Copper Data Patch Cord Jacket Colors

• Gray: Standard ethernet connection
• Green: Crossover ethernet connection
• Yellow: Wireless POE (power over ethernet)
• Orange: Analog Non-Ethernet
• Purple: Digital Non-Ethernet
• Blue: Terminal server connection
• Red: T1 connection

Copper Data Cable Jacket Colors

• Red: Cat 6 (non-plenum)
• Black: Cat6 (plenum)
• Blue: Cat5/5e (non-plenum)
• Pink: Cat5/5e (plenum)

Copper Voice Cable Jacket Colors

• White: Cat5/5e/6 (non-plenum)
• Violet: Cat5/5e/6 (plenum)

Fiber Cable Jacket Colors

• Aqua: 50/125 micron multi mode fiber
• Yellow: 9/125 micron single mode fiber
• Orange: 62.5/125 micron multi mode fiber