Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Robert Anthony Smith

Alaa Adel Mahdi Hayder

Wei Liu

Jignesh Gandhi

Kanika Gupta

Kipper Dale Seljestad

Dong Wang

Robert Matthew D'Reaux

Ross Michael Wampler

John R Childress

Junlin Yi

Justin Michael Dodson

Adam Thomas Creswell

Xavier Passy

Systems, methods, and devices for identifying characteristics of communication cable are described. For example, a connector of a communication cable may include a set of pins. When the connector is plugged into an active device such as a transceiver, a pattern of the set of pins may be determined. This pattern may be associated with a characteristic of the communication cable (e.g., manufacture, manufacturing date, etc.).

Communication cable identification

A data center rack allocation system allocates rack computer systems to be installed at particular rack positions based at least in part upon correlating infrastructure support requirements of the rack computer systems with infrastructure support capacities associated with the rack position. Such allocation can enable rapid incremental deployment of infrastructure and rack computer systems in a data center with flexibility to allocate various types of rack computer systems, with various support requirements, to available infrastructure. The system can identify infrastructure connections available to provide certain types of support capacity and can associate such connections with various rack positions in data centers. The system can determine the support requirements of a rack computer system in response to a determination that the rack computer system is presently inbound for delivery to a data center. The system can allocate particular infrastructure connections to a rack computer system allocated to a rack position.

Flexible data center rack allocation

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Leesburg, VA, United States of America

Robert Anthony Smith