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I've found red to be a common crossover cable color, though not exclusive from either direction.

A few years ago, we purged all straight-through cables that were red, and all cross-over cables that were not red. It definately made digging through the bucket-o-cables much easier.

Oh, and our patch panels are generally parti-colored mixes of cables. I'm partially color blind so it doesn't bother me too much, and it makes tracing individual cables a whole lot easier.

-jk