Activity in TIA TR-42
Bob Jensen
TR-42 Chair
TR-42 Responsibility
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Premises Telecommunications Cabling Standards
All Optical Fiber Standards
Initiatives
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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
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Initiatives
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Loss Budget Task Group (TR-42.11)
Encircled Flux Round Robin (TR-42.11)
– TSB is being worked on
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Bend insensitive multimode fiber
– Being worked in TR-42.11 and TR-42.12
– Attempting to ensure encircled flux compliance
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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 100Ω
Next Generation Cabling”) to work with 40GBASE-T
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Initiatives
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Educational Facilities
– Distributed Antenna Systems cabling being reviewed
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Places of Assembly (e.g., stadiums, airports)
– Task Group established beginning investigations
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Ensuring security of cabling (physical)
– Task Group draft established
– Includes Electronics, cabling, physical damage, terrorism,
industrial sabotage, data security for wired and wireless
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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
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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)
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Energy Management Systems
– Addendum to TIA-862-A has been initiated.
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Initiatives
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Began working with BICSI Standards to coordinate efforts
on standards development
– TIA developing requirements
– BICSI developing “best practices”
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Issues being worked on by TIA
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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?
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Voting member status
– Expand to have primary and alternate
• Allow as a choice of each company
• Useful for operational efficiency of member company
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Issues being worked on by TIA
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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
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Standards being published
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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
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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
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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
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Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and
Components Standards, August 2009
– No addenda published to date
– Task Group working on next-generation cabling
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TSB-190, Guidelines on Shared Pathways and Shared
Sheaths
– Published June, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces, May, 2012
– Published
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TIA-570-C
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Building Automation Systems Cabling Standard
– Published
– Few changes made to the standard
– Addendum being initiated
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TIA-942-A
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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
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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
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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
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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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