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Keystone Color Codes

Keystone Color Codes

Keystones are extremely useful for providing the necessary connections to a patch panel. They allow you to customize your patch panel with the specific types of connections you need, freeing you from relying on a patch panel with only Cat5e RJ45 connections, for example.

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Keystone Color Codes

Keystones come in various variants, used to terminate different types of data cabling. The cable is connected to an LSA strip at the back or inside the keystone, and the eight wire pairs are secured using an LSA tool. LSA strips always have an A- and B-color code. However, confusion can arise because keystones may have different color codes or it's not entirely clear which connection points correspond to which color.

Step 1 - Use a solid cable

When using keystones, it's crucial to use a cable with a solid core. Cables with a stranded core cannot be connected to LSA strips because the very thin copper wires in the stranded cable cannot be properly connected with the LSA tool.

Step 2 – Follow the B Standard

As mentioned earlier, keystones have an LSA strip with two color codes, labeled A and B. In Europe, the B standard is always used. Therefore, when connecting a solid cable to the keystone, you should follow the color order indicated with B. However, the color code can vary per keystone, causing confusion. When making changes in an existing network, such as neatly terminating cables at the workplace, check the patch panel to determine the applied color coding.

Step 3 – Connect the Wire Pairs to the Correct Connection Points

Below are the color codes for different keystone models.

Cat5e UTP Keystone Connector - Toolless (DS-KC-UTP5-TL)

Kleurvolgorde Keystone DS-KC-UTP5-TL 1. Brown
2. White-Brown
3. Blue
4. White-Blue
5. Green
6. White-Green
7. Orange
8. White-Orange

CAT6 UTP Keystone Connector - Toolless Twist (DS-KC-UTP6-TL-T)

The color sequence below, in addition to the DS-KC-UTP6-TL-T, also applies to the following keystone: DS-KC-UTP6A-TL-T.

CAT6 UTP Keystone Connector - Toolless Twist Side 1
1. Green
2. White-Green
3. Blue
4. White-Blue

Side  2
5. White-Orange
6. Orange
7. White-Brown
8. Brown

CAT6a UTP Keystone Connector - (DS-KC-UTP6A-RJ45)

The color sequence below applies in addition to the DS-KC-UTP6A-RJ45, to the following keystone: DS-KC-STP6A-TL.

Cat6a UTP Keystone Connector kleurvolgorde 1. White-Blue
2. Blue
3. White-Green
4. Green
5. Brown
6. White-Brown
7. Orange
8. White-Orange

CAT6a UTP Keystone Connector - Toolless (DS-KC-UTP6A-TL)

The color sequence below, in addition to the DS-KC-UTP6A-TL, also applies to the following keystone: DS-KC-UTP6A-LSA

Kleurvolgorde Keystone DS-KC-UTP6A-TL 1. Brown
2. White-Brown
3. Orange
4. White-Orange
5. Green
6. White-Green
7. Blue
8. White-Blue

CAT6 STP Keystone Connector - LSA Angled (DS-KC-STP6-LSA-A)

The color sequence below, in addition to the DS-KC-UTP6-LSA-A, also applies to the following keystones: DS-KC-UTP6-LSA, DS-KC-STP6-LSA-A.

Kleurvolgorde Keystone DS-KC-STP6-LSA-A 1. Brown
2. White-Brown
3. Orange
4. White-Orange
5. Green
6. Green-White
7. Blue
8. White-Blue


CAT6 UTP Keystone Connector - Toolless (DS-KC-UTP6-TL)

Kleurvolgorde CAT6 UTP Keystone Connector - Toolles 1. Blue
2. White-Blue
3. Orange
4. White-Orange
5. Green
6. White-Green
7. Brown
8. White-Brown


Step 4 – Use a Punch Down Tool to Secure the Wire Pairs (except for toolless keystones)

After determining the correct order, secure the wire pairs using a punch-down tool. The wire pairs are now fixed in the connection points. Once this is done, the keystone is ready for use.

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Up to 25 years warranty

You receive a 25 year warranty on all server racks and passive accessories. Active components have a 1 year warranty and utp cabling 5 years. If used properly, we guarantee that products will work well.

Fast dispatch

When you order before 16:00 on working days we will dispatch your order on the same day. We always have more than 100,000 items in stock: serverracks, 19-inch accessories such as patchpanels, ethernet switches and utp- and fibre optic cables. We can therefore dispatch your orders very quickly; to your company address, directly to your customer with a white label or to your home.

 

 

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