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Is there an official meaning for red, yellow, blue or the other cable colours?

Not for these patch leads. The colours do not change the Cat6 specification or give the cable a different network function.

Organisations often invent their own colour schemes, and some fixed-cabling ranges may use colours to distinguish jacket types, but there is no universal Ethernet rule that gives purple some special constitutional role.

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