Activity in TIA TR-42

Bob Jensen
TR-42 Chair

TR-42 Responsibility

Premises Telecommunications Cabling Standards

All Optical Fiber Standards

Initiatives

TAG meetings being held in conjunction with TR-42

meetings
US TAG to TC86, SC86A, SC86B and SC86C
These TAGs are becoming more correspondence only

US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 WG3

These meetings began this year and are found to be beneficial towards
harmonization

Initiatives

Loss Budget Task Group (TR-42.11)

Encircled Flux Round Robin (TR-42.11)
TSB is being worked on

Bend insensitive multimode fiber

Being worked in TR-42.11 and TR-42.12
Attempting to ensure encircled flux compliance

Task Group is pursuing the next edition of premises

standards in TR-42 (e.g., 568-D Series)
Next generation balanced twisted-pair cabling Task Groups
have identified objectives (August meeting to be held)
Developed Editor's draft 0.2 of PN-568-C.2-1 (to be
published as ANSI/TIA-568-C.2-1, "Specifications for 100
Next Generation Cabling) to work with 40GBASE-T
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Initiatives

Educational Facilities
Distributed Antenna Systems cabling being reviewed

Places of Assembly (e.g., stadiums, airports)

Task Group established beginning investigations

Ensuring security of cabling (physical)

Task Group draft established
Includes Electronics, cabling, physical damage, terrorism,
industrial sabotage, data security for wired and wireless

New Subcommittee initiated for STEP (TR-42.10); first

meeting in Philadelphia at the TR-42 October meetings
Announcements made by TIA
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Initiatives

Telecommunications Cabling Guidelines for Wireless

Access Points
Begun revision of 2006 TSB to include cabling and spacing
of current and future wireless access points (e.g., 802.11ac)

Energy Management Systems

Addendum to TIA-862-A has been initiated.

Initiatives

Began working with BICSI Standards to coordinate efforts

on standards development
TIA developing requirements
BICSI developing best practices

Issues being worked on by TIA

Document management (processing)

What documents are due for committee action?
Hundreds of documents are the responsibility of TR-42 and its Subcommittees
System is needed to alert Subcommittees or Engineering Committee of pending
action (notification after 3-year mark and 5-year mark)

What is the status of a publication?

Is the document in TIA? ANSI? Projected publication date?

Voting member status

Expand to have primary and alternate
Allow as a choice of each company
Useful for operational efficiency of member company

Issues being worked on by TIA

Document searches (numbering)

Difficult to search
Need specifics to search (TIA-, TIA/EIA-, EIA/TIA-, EIA-)
Some documents have additional punctuation (TIA/EIA-492.AAAC)

Better (more forgiving) search engine may be needed

Standards being published

ANSI/TIA-568-C.0-2, Generic cabling

ANSI/TIA-942-A, Data Centers
ANSI/TIA-570-C, Residential
ANSI/TIA-607-B-1, Bonding and Grounding
ANSI/TIA-1183, Test fixtures for balunless network
analyzer measurements
Some glitches had been fixed by TIA to further the process
of publication

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Standards Update
Annex

TIA-568-C.0

Generic Telecommunications Cabling for Customer

Premises, February 2, 2009
Addendum 1 Updated Reference for Balanced Twisted-Pair
Published September 2010

Addendum 2 General Updates

Agreed to publish at February 2012 meeting
This addendum updates various optical fiber topics including polarity, fieldtesting, revisions to application tables and to the MICE table.
Field testing harmonizes with IEC 61280-4-1

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TIA-568-C.1

Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling

Standard, February 2, 2009
Addendum 1 Pathways and Spaces
Approved for publication at October 2011 meeting
This Addendum specifies additional requirements, exceptions and allowances to
ANSI/TIA-569-C for commercial buildings.

Addendum 2 -- General Updates

Approved for publication at June 2011 meeting
Updates references, revises entrance facility description, and refers to
ANSI/TIA-568-C.0 for centralized cabling,

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TIA-568-C.2

Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and

Components Standards, August 2009
No addenda published to date
Task Group working on next-generation cabling

TSB-190, Guidelines on Shared Pathways and Shared

Sheaths
Published June, 2011

TIA-1183, Test fixtures for balunless measurements of

balanced components and systems
Agreed to publish at February 2012 meeting

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TIA-568-C.3

Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard, June 18,

2008
Addendum 1 -- Addition of OM4 Cabled Optical Fiber and
24-fiber array connectors
Approved for publication, June 2011

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TIA-568-C.4

Broadband Coaxial Cabling and Components Standard,

March, 2011
Approved for publication February, 2011
Includes topology, performance requirements, installation
requirements, field-testing
Will be referenced in TIA-570-C (Residential)

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TIA-569-C

Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces, May, 2012

Published

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TIA-570-C

Residential Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard,

April 2012
References 568-C.4 for coaxial cabling
Approved for publication in February 2012

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TIA-606-B

Administration Standard for Telecommunications

Infrastructure
Published June 2012
This standard is intended to harmonize with ISO/IEC
14763-2-1
An optional PoE and PoE+ symbol

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TIA-607-B

Generic Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding

(Earthing) for Customer Premises
Published
Addendum 1; Agreed to be published June 2012
Ground electrodes
Ground testing

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TIA-758

Customer-owned Outside Plant Telecommunications

infrastructure Standard
Published
Few changes made to the standard
Testing includes technologies such as XDSL

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TIA-862-A

Building Automation Systems Cabling Standard

Published
Few changes made to the standard
Addendum being initiated

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TIA-942-A

Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers

Agreed to be published at February 2012 meeting
Harmonized with TIA-568-C.0 Series
Recommendations for energy efficiency added
Recognized optical fiber connectors are LC for one or two fibers and
MPO for more than two optical fibers.
Recognized multimode optical fiber cable for horizontal and backbone
cabling has been changed to OM3 and OM4 850nm laser-optimized
50/125 um multimode fiber cable. OM1 and OM2 are no longer
recognized in this standard.
Category 3 and category 5e are no longer recognized for horizontal
cabling. Recognized balanced twisted-pair cable types for horizontal
cabling are category 6 or category 6A.

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TIA-1005-A

Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Industrial

Premises
Published May 2012
Based on the TIA-568-C.0 standard and TIA-569-C and
includes appropriate allowances and exceptions to those
standards for industrial premises.

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TIA-1152

Requirements for Field Test Instruments and

Measurements for Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling
Published September 2009
Includes accuracy of balanced twisted-pair test instruments

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TIA-1179

Healthcare Facility Telecommunications Infrastructure

Standard
Published July 2010
For telecommunications infrastructure of healthcare facilities
(e.g. hospitals, clinics).
It specifies cabling, cabling topologies, cabling distances and
pathways and spaces (e.g. sizing and location).

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