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Standards Reference Guide |3 P . r r o e Table of Contents Purpose of the ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B Standard d t u x c i t n s A . ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B, Commercial Building 0 T 0 The Purpose: e 8 Telecommunications Cabling Standard . .5 c . h 1 • Establish a generic telecommunications cabling standard n o l 568-B.1, General Requirements . .8 l l o a that will support a multivendor environment g c 568-B.2, Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components . .21 y . r • Enable the planning and installation of a structured o 568-B.2-1, Category 6 Transmission Performance . .26 S e m cabling system for commercial buildings r o TIA/EIA-568-B.2- Addendum 10, Augmented Cat 6 v c i . c r • Establish performance and technical criteria Transmission Performance . .32 e e s t . x for various cabling system configurations i TIA/EIA-568-B.3, Optical Fiber Cabling Components . .34 D n e a l . ANSI/TIA/EIA-569-B, Pathways and Spaces . .36 The Standard Specifies: i w v w e w ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A, Administration . .49 • Minimum requirements for telecommunications r e t d i s J-STD-607-A, Grounding and Bonding . .60 cabling within an office environment i G v l ANSI/TIA/EIA-942 . .64 • Recommended topology and distances o , b n a o Purpose of the ISO 11801:2002 Standard . .73 l i • Media parameters which determine performance l t y . a ISO 11801, Class E . .74 m A • Connector and pin assignments to ensure interconnectability r o f IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet . .75 n • The useful life of telecommunications cabling systems i IEEE 802.11 Wireless . .76 e as being in excess of 10 years r o IEEE 802.3an . .78 m r Building telecommunications cabling specified by this standard is intended o Anixter Enterprise Cabling and Security Labs . .80 F Reference Documents . .84 to support a wide range of different commercial building sites and applications (e.g., voice, data, text, video and image). Typically, this range includes sites with a geographical extent from 10,000 to 10,000,000 sq ft (3,000-1,000,000 m2) of office space, and with a population of up to 50,000 individual users. This standard replaces ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-A dated October 6, 1995. This standard also incorporates and refines the technical content of TSB67, TSB72, TSB75, TSB95 and TIA/EIA-568-A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4 and A-5. 4| Standards Reference Guide Standards Reference Guide |5 P . r r Section Contents TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1 Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components o e d t u x c i Category 6 Transmission Performance . 26 t n s A . Horizontal and Backbone Cable . 27 0 T 0 ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B e 8 Connecting Hardware . 28 c . h 1 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard n o l Assembled Patch Cords . 29 l l o a TIA/EIA-568-B.1 General Requirements g c Permanent Link . 30 y . r o Channel . 30 S e m The Six Subsystems of a Structured Cabling System . 8 r o Longitudal Conversion Loss . 31 v c i . Entrance Facilities . 8 c r TIA/EIA-568-B.2-ad 10 Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components e e s t . x Equipment Room . 8 i Augmented Category 6 Permanent Link Requirements . 32 D n e a Backbone Cabling . 9 l . Augmented Category 6 Channel Requirements . 33 i w v w Design Requirements . 10 e w TIA/EIA- 568-B.3 Optical Fiber Cabling Components r e t d i Telecommunications Room . 11 s Optical Fiber Cabling . 34 i G v Horizontal Cabling . 11 l Optical Fiber Bend Radius . 34 o , b n Specified Topology . 11 a o Optical Fiber Connector . 35 l i l t y . a Maximum Distances . 12 Optical Fiber Telecommunications Outlet . 35 m r o MUTOA . 12 f Optical Fiber Splices . 35 n i Consolidation Point . 13 Optical Fiber Connector . 35 e r Centralized Optical Fiber . o 14 Optical Fiber Patch Cord . 35 m r Work Area . 15 o F Work Area Components . 15 Telecommunications Outlet . 15 8-Position Modular Jack Pair Assignments . 16 Channel and Permanent Link . 16 Definitions of Electrical Parameters . 18 TIA/EIA-568-B.2 Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components 100 Ohm Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Systems . 21 Horizontal and Backbone Cable . 21 Bundled and Hybrid Cable . 23 UTP Connecting Hardware . 23 UTP Patch Cords . 24 6| Standards Reference Guide Standards Reference Guide |7 For more information, visit www.anixter.com or call 1.800.Anixter. 8| StandardsReferenceGuide room maybeprovidedbyanequipmentroom. telecommunication rooms.Anyorallofthefunctions ofatelecommunications standard. Equipmentroomsusuallyhouseequipment ofhighercomplexitythan The designaspectsoftheequipmentroomarespecifiedinTIA/EIA 2. EquipmentRoom(ER) of thenetworkinterfacearedefinedinTIA/EIA-569-B standard. interfaces withtheintrabuildingbackbonecabling.Thephysicalrequirements Building entrancefacilities(EF)providethepointatwhichoutdoorcabling (EF) 1. EntranceFacilities The SixSubsystemsofaStructuredCablingSystem TIA/EIA-568-B.1 GeneralRequirements -569-B Specified Backbone Cabling Topology: Star Specified BackboneCablingTopology: This includes: patch cordsorjumpersusedforbackbone-to-backbone cross-connection. cables, intermediateandmaincross-connects,mechanicalterminations rooms, equipmentroomsandentrancefacilities.Itconsistsofthebackbone The backbonecablingprovidesinterconnectionbetweentelecommunication 3. BackboneCabling Standards ReferenceGuide |9 • • • Cables betweenbuildings(inter-building) cable entrancefacilities Cables betweenanequipmentroomandbuilding connectionbetweenfloors(risers) Vertical . y l l a b o l G d e r e v i l e D . s e c i v r e S . y g o l o n h c e T . s t c u d o r P P . r r Other Design Requirements 4. Telecommunications Room (TR) o e d t u x A telecommunications room is the area within a building that houses the c i • Star topology t n s A . • No more than two hierarchical levels telecommunications cabling system equipment. This includes the mechanical 0 T 0 e 8 of backbone cross-connects.