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Standard Set of Network Diagram Icons?
Cerebus asks: "I'm taking over administrative and management functions for a network, and one of the tasks is, of course, providing accurate diagrams for the whole shebang. In playing with various tools for this (Dia, Visio, Kvivio, xfig, tgif, etc). I've noticed that each package has it's own idea about what abstract icon to use for various devices (what Visio would call "logical" icons). While there is some overlap, the meaning attached to an icon is sometimes different between applications, and what's worse is that (using the example of Visio) the same application has multiple different icons for the same type of device! Is there any kind of standard for network diagram iconography? Should there be?"
There definately should be. Perhaps XML will ring in a new era and bring standardization to a lot of industries. I would figure that it would first have to define a standard for network topology; It wouldn't be long after that the visio-esque companies would start drawing things the same. I doubt it'll happen, but it would be nice...
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perhaps devolping your own set of in house icons would be the way to go? that way you know exactly what they mean and you can easily train someone else in on them since you designed them you are the most familiar with them?
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