Naming Convention for WAN Links?

Question

Hie all !
I work for a networking company that offers WAN connectivity to clients. It's also an ISP.Im doing some documentation of all our customers. It's an Excel spreadsheet with the following fields : Customer Name, Device type(A Node), Port (A Node), Device type( B Node), Port(B Node). The customer connects to us via the A node device(e.g Cisco 2950) and the B node is the device at our POP(vdsl, radio,cisco e.t.c). Im trying to come up with a naming convention for the circuit numbers. The circuit number will be a short way of describing the link that the customer has. And they can call to us refering to that circuit in case of a fault. The circuit number should help support stuff in identifying where the link coming from and where it is going. It should also give a hint on who's leasing that link e.t.c It should be as short as possible. Im stuck guys pliz help.

Answer 1

If you are going to use this internally only I would write it up from a technical perspective. Have a column with your customer name and the columns that list the ports your using, i.e. Fa0/10 (or what ever port they are on). I would think your switches are already labeled some how (i.e. switch01 or 02 ect.) So you could say:

Company Name In Switch In Port Out Switch Out Port
SomeCompany Switch01 Fa0/10 Switch02 Fa0/12

I don't know if that offers you any ideas.