LAN Standards Compendium

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Dr Crosstalk’s giant compendium of cabling and LAN standards

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November 2004 edition

Disclaimer. A list of cabling and related related standards can never be fully complete, complete, finished or indeed correct. No liability is accepted by the authors for for any error or omission. The latest versions and issues of standards standards should be checked on the web sites of the TIA, ISO, IEC, CENELEC and IEEE.

Administration Standards ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A  Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Telecommunic ations Infrastruct ure of Commercial Buildings CAN/CSA T528-93 Design Guidelines for Administration of Telecommunications Infrastructure in Commercial Buildings ISO/IEC 14763-1 Information technology – Implementation and operation of customer premises cabling – Part 1: Administration Cabling system design standards The obsolete TIA 568 standards are still often quoted so are listed here for completeness ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-A Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, 1995.( replaced 1995.( replaced by 568-B in 2001) Addendum 1 Propagation Delay and Delay Skew Sept 1997 Addendum 2 Corrections and Additions to TIA-568-A Aug 1998 Addendum 3 Hybrid Cables Dec 1998 Addendum 4 Patch Cord Qualification Test Aug 1999 Addendum 5 Additional Transmission performance Specifications for 4Pair 100 ohm Category 5e Cabling Nov 1999 TIA/EIA TSB 67 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin. Transmission Performance Specifications for Field Testing of Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Systems, Oct 1995. TIA/EIA TSB 72 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Centralized Optical Fiber Cabling Guidelines. Oct 1995. TIA/EIA TSB 75 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Additional Horizontal Cabling Practices for Open Offices Aug 1996 . TIA/EIA TSB 95 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Additional Transmission Performance Guidelines for 100 Ohm 4 pair Category 5 Cabling. August 1999. Current TIA standards (as at December 2004) ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001   Commercial Building Telecommunications ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001  Standard - Part 1: General Requirements ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2001   Commercial Building Telecommunications ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2001 Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-2000 Optical ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-2000  Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard Compendium of standards, by type 002 November 2004 www.ThePhysicalLayer.com

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Addenda ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-1-2001  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 1 - Minimum 4-Pair UTP and 4-Pair ScTP Patch Cable Bend Radius ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2-2003  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 2 - Grounding and Bonding Requirements for Screened Balanced Twisted-Pair Horizontal Cabling ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-3-2003  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 3 - Supportable Distances and Channel Attenuation for Optical Fiber Applications by Fiber Type ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-4-2003  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 4 - Recognition of Category 6 and 850 nm Laser-Optimized 50/125 µm Multimode Optical Fiber ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-5-2004  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 5 - Telecommunications Cabling for Telecommunications Enclosures ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1-2002  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Components - Addendum 1 - Transmission Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 Ohm Category 6 Cabling ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2-2001  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 2 ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-3-2002  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling - Addendum 3 - Additional Considerations for Insertion Loss and Return Loss Pass/Fail Determination ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-4-2002  Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Components - Addendum 4 - Solderless Connection Reliability Requirements for Copper Connecting Hardware ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-5-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 5 Corrections to TIA/EIA-568-B.2 ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-6-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 6 Category 6 Related Component Test Procedures ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-1-2002  Cabling Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard - Addendum 1 - Additional Transmission Performance Specifications for 50/125 um Optical Fiber Cables Technical System Bulletins TSB-125-2001  - Guidelines for Maintaining Optical Fiber Polarity Through ReversePair Positioning TSB-140  Additional Guidelines for Field Test Length, Loss and Polarity of Optical Fibers (2004) TSB-149 Generic Workmanship Guidelines for Fiber Optic Connector Interoperability TSB-153 Static Discharge Between LAN and Data Terminal Equipment (2003) Draft Standards TIA-568-B.1-6-200? (pending) Addendum 6 - Additional Cabling Requirements for DC Power… Compendium of standards, by type 002 November 2004 www.ThePhysicalLayer.com

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