# Dartmouth College: Identification for communications systems

> Design and construction guideline section 270553 dated March 22, 2021. Establishes a floor/space/panel/port identifier structure, two accepted strip contents (bare port number with the panel designator marked separately, or a fully qualified per-port identifier) and the batch-printing reason given for the first, and two different numbering orders in use on forty-eight-port panels from different manufacturers. Product behavior is as reported by this specification, not as verified against the manufacturers. Checked September 16, 2026.

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Original source: [Dartmouth College: Identification for communications systems](https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/8/2165/files/2021/03/SECTION-270553-Identification-for-Communications-Systems-20210322.pdf)

## Scope of this source

Design and construction guideline section 270553 dated March 22, 2021. Establishes a floor/space/panel/port identifier structure, two accepted strip contents (bare port number with the panel designator marked separately, or a fully qualified per-port identifier) and the batch-printing reason given for the first, and two different numbering orders in use on forty-eight-port panels from different manufacturers. Product behavior is as reported by this specification, not as verified against the manufacturers. Checked September 16, 2026.

Cited for one institution’s adopted conventions and for its record of differing panel numbering orders. No endorsement of any product and no universal rule is claimed.

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