Fiber and copper physical layer infrastructure equipment, product, and system intelligence for software defined networking systems, namely, fiber-optic cables and electrical copper cables for use in communication networks including data centers, carrier, enterprise and federal communication networks; telecommunications switches, namely, network pathway controlling devices with cable identifying connector technology; computer network switches with cable identifying connector technology; high density computer network switches with cable identifying connector technology; active and passive cross-connects being fiber-optic cables and electrical copper cables for use in communication networks with cable identifying connector technology; patch panels, namely, panels supporting networking ports for optical and electrical cable with cable identifying connector technology, network routers with cable identifying connector technology, active interconnector adaptors to terminate fiber and active interconnector adaptors to terminate multifiber cables for high bandwidth data transmission; Network Interface Cards embedded in servers and storages devices having cable identifying connector technology