What is a sensible way to use the ten available colours in a rack?
Give colours jobs that matter to you and write the scheme down.
You might separate WAN, normal LAN, cameras, access points, servers or management connections.
The purpose is to make a thicket of otherwise identical patch leads intelligible at a glance, not to create a new colour code so elaborate that nobody remembers it.
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