9 COLOR-CODING IDENTIFICATION 9.1 General ‘This clause describes color-coding requirements for termination fields and for horizontal cabling. 9.2 Color-coding of termination fields 9.2.1 General Color-coding of termination fields can simplify infrastructure administration and maintenance t ‘making the structure of the cabling more intuitive. ‘The color-coding of termination fields specified in this Standard is based on the topology of backbon and horizontal cabling specified in ANSVTWVEIA-568-B.1 which allows one level of cross-connectio in horizontal cabling and two levels of cross-connection in backbone cabling 9.2.2 Color-coding of specific termination fields It termination fields are color-coded, the coding shown in table 2 shall be used. Cross-connections generally connect termination fields of different colors. A summary and illustration of these requirements are shown below in table 2 and figure 2. Table 2: Summary of termination color-coding Termination Type Color Pantone # Typical Application ‘demarcation point ‘orange 750C | central office connection network connection ‘green. 353 | user side of central office connection: ‘common equipment purple 264 [connections to PBX, mainframe comput LAN, mutiplexer Key system red T84C | connections to Key telephone systems. first level backbone white ‘terminations of building backbone cable connecting MC to ICs ‘Second level backbone ray F2IC__[ termination of buiing backbone cable connecting ICs to HCs. ‘campus backbone Brown F55C [Termination of backbone cable belweon built horizontal be. ETC Permian of Racor cae TSS ‘miscellansous yellow “T01C | alarms, secunty, or energy management Notes: a) Industry practice in Canada is to use white/silver (Pantone 877C) for common equipment terminations and purple for first level backbone terminations. b) Industry practica in some areas reserves red for life safety alarm systems. 24ss v SSC | Tetcommuniction om oow] | Gay orzata cess connect (HC) |K_Invebaitng secona ave basinone Teteconmunestons rem Gay | | | imamate eras connect IC) x ime intacuig test ove backzene quo reom ‘Main ese comect (UC) vie | [Pure x x rer tt ee) [Bow love beckoone [7 exrerce cy ‘onan poe x Cates 9 cones ce Gone L orservce rence Figure 2: Illustration of color-coding of termination fields