Cable management is not very important in SOHO environments but it becomes critical as the organization grows. There are some international standards, such as ANSI/TIA/EIA-606 – Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Infrastructure of Commercial Buildings, that go into detail about how cables should be managed inside an enterprise infrastructure. Some of the things it describes include the following:
- Information presentation
- Reports format
- Drawings format
- Work orders
- Pathway, space, and grounding considerations (including identifiers and labeling)
- Identifying cabling
- Labeling cabling (including color coding and bar . . .
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