Colour coding for Optical Fibre Ducting Raceway – With the ever increasing demand for zero down-time solutions in data centers and Telecommunications networks there has been a growing need for redundancy cable systems.
Routing both operating and redundant optical fibres in the yellow coloured ducting can create problems in identifying the redundant fibres and/or system and copper cabling. In order to manage and organise cabling in an effective manner, ducting must be colour coded to eliminate confusion. Parallel to the redundancy needs, a new issue has arisen in installations. The state-of-art 10 Gigabit copper UTP cabling also has very high demands on bend radius. This requires a new approach to the conventional metal cable trays (ladders, baskets etc). The conventional metal trays are not designed to provide safe bending radius.
In addition to the standard Yellow Ducting for optical fibre, Orange Ducting is recommended for highlighting the redundant fibre networks and Black Ducting for CAT6A FTP or UTP 10 Gigabit copper. Each colour comes in many different shapes and sizes.
