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TIA-568-B.1-7-200? (pending) Addendum 7 - Optical Fiber Polarity for Array
Connectors
TIA-568-B.2-7-200? (pending) Addendum 7 - Reliability Specification
Requirements for Copper Connecting Hardware
TIA-568-B.2-8 (repealed)
TIA-568-B.2-9-200? (pending) Addendum 9 - Additional Category 6 Balance
Requirements and Measurement Procedures
TIA-568-B.2-10-200? (pending) Addendum 10 - Augmented Category 6
Cabling
TIA-568-B.2-11-200? (pending) Addendum 11 - Specification for Increased
UTP and ScTP Cable Diameter

TSB155-200? (pending) Additional guidelines for 4-pair 100 ohm Category 6
cabling for 10GBASE-T applications

AS/NZS 3080:2003 : Telecommunications installations - Generic cabling for commercial
premises (ISO/IEC 11801:2002, MOD) Australia and New Zealand
CAN/CSA T529-95 Telecommunications Cabling Systems in Commercial Buildings
CAN/CSA T530-M90 Building Facilities Design Guidelines for Telecommunications.
DISC PD1002 A Guide to Cabling in Private Telecommunications Systems (TIA
UK)
EN 50098-1 Customer Premises Cabling for Information Technology Part 1: ISDN
basic access
EN 50098-2, Customer premises cabling for information technology - Part 2: 2048 kb/s
ISDN primary access and leased line network interface
EN 50173-1:2002 Information technology - Generic cabling systems -- Part 1: General
requirements and office areas
IEC/TR 61282-1 - Ed. 1.0 Fibre optic communication system design guides - Part 1:
Single-mode digital and analogue systems
IEC 61282-2 TR Fibre optic communication system design guides - Part 2: Multimode
and single-mode Gb/s applications - Gigabit Ethernet model
IEC 61282-3 TR Ed. 1.0 Fibre optic communication system design guides: Calculation
of PMD in fibre optic systems
IEC 61282-4 TR Ed. 1.0 Fibre optic communication system design guides Part 4:
Guideline to accommodate and utilise nonlinear effects in single-mode fibre optic
systems
IEC/TR 61282-5 - Ed. 1.0 Fibre optic communication system design guides - Part 5:
Accommodation and compensation of dispersion
IEC 61282-6 TR Ed. 1.0 E Fibre optic communication system design guides - Part 6:
Skew design in parallel optical interconnection systems
IEC 61282-7 TR Ed. 1.0 Fibre optic communication system design guides - Part 7:
Statistical calculation of chromatic dispersion
ISO 11801:2002 Information technology Generic cabling for customer premises
TIA-559 Single-Mode Fiber Optic System Transmission Design (19899) (r2002) Oct.
1992
TIA-559-1 Single-Mode Fiber Optic System Transmission Design - Addendum 1 (1992)
(r2002) Mar. 1989
TIA-626 Multimode Fiber Optic Link Transmission Design (1995) (r2003) Dec. 1995
TIA-758-A Customer owned Outside Plant Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard
(2004) Aug. 2004
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Copper cable standards

EN 50167 Sectional specifications for horizontal floor wiring cables with a common
overall screen for use in digital communications
EN 50168 Sectional specifications for work-area wiring cables with a common
overall screen for use in digital communications
EN 50169 Sectional specifications for backbone cables, riser and campus with a
common overall screen for use in digital communications
EN 50288 Multi-Element metallic cables used in analogue and digital
communications and control. (Note: replaces EN 50167, EN 50168, and EN 50169)
EN 50288-2-1 100 MHz Screened, Horizontal and Backbone
EN 50288-2-2 100 MHz Screened, Patch
EN 50288-3-1 100 MHz Unscreened, Horizontal and Backbone
EN 50288-3-2 100 MHz Unscreened, Patch
EN 50288-4-1 600 MHz Screened, Horizontal and Backbone
EN 50288-4-2 600 MHz Screened, Patch
EN 50288-5-1 200 MHz Screened, Horizontal and Backbone
EN 50288-5-2 200 MHz Screened, Patch
EN 50288-6-1 200 MHz Unscreened, Horizontal and Backbone
EN 50288-6-2 200 MHz Unscreened, Patch
ICEA S-100-685 Station Wire for indoor/outdoor use
ICEA S-101-699 Cat 3 station wire and inside wiring cables up to 600 pairs
ICEA S-102-700 Cat 5, 4-pair, indoor UTP wiring standard
ICEA S-103-701 AR&M Riser cable
ICEA S-80-576 Communications wire and cable for wiring of premises
ICEA S-83-596 Optical Fiber Indoor/Outdoor Cable
ICEA S-87-640 Optical Fiber Outside Plant Cable
ICEA S-89-648 Aerial service wire
ICEA S-90-661 Individually unshielded twisted pair indoor cables
IEC 60708-1 Low-frequency cables with polyolefin insulation and moisture barrier
polyolefin sheath Part 1: General design details and requirements
IEC 61156 Multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communications
IEC 61156-1 Multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communications.
Part 1 generic specification.
IEC 61156-2: Multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communications
Part 2: Horizontal floor wiring - Sectional specification
IEC 61156-3 Multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communications -
Part 3: Work area wiring - Sectional specification
IEC 61156-5 CD: Multicore and symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communication -
Part 5: Symmetrical pair/quad cables with transmission characteristics up to 600 MHz -
Sectional specification
IEC 61156-6 CCDV: Symmetrical pair/quad cables for digital communications with
transmission characteristics up to 600 MHz - Part 6: Work area wiring - Sectional
specification
NEMA WC-63.1 Performance standards for twisted pair premise voice and data
communications cable
NEMA WC-63.2 Performance standards for coaxial communications cable
NEMA WC-66.1 Performance standards for Cat 6, Cat 7 100-ohm shielded and
unshielded twisted pair cables
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Copper Connector Standards

IEC 60603-7 Amendment 1. Detail specification for connectors 8 way. Test
methods and related requirements for use at frequencies up to 100 MHz.
IEC 60603-7:1996, Connectors for frequencies below 3 MHz for use with printed boards
Part 7: Detail specification for connectors, 8 way, including fixed and free connectors
with common mating features
IEC 60603-7-1: ADIS, Inclusion of screen mating in IEC 60603-7
IEC 60603-7-2: ADIS, Detail specification for 8 way connectors, with assessed
quality, including fixed and free connectors with common mounting features; test
methods and related requirements for use at frequencies up to 100 MHz
IEC 60603-7-3: ADIS, Detail specification for 8 way connectors, with assessed
quality, including fixed and free connectors with common mounting features; test
methods and related requirements for use at frequencies up to 100 MHz
IEC 60603-7-4: CD, Connectors for electronic equipment: Detail specification for
an 8 way connector with performance up to 250 MHz
IEC 60603-7-5: ADIS, Detail specification for 8 way connectors, with assessed
quality, including fixed and free connectors with common mounting features; test
methods and related requirements for use at frequencies up to 100 MHz
IEC 60603-7-7 CCDV: Connectors for use in d.c., low frequency analogue and in
digital high speed data applications - Part 7- 7: 8 way connectors for frequencies up to
600 MHz [Category 7 Detail Specification]
IEC 60807-8: Rectangular connectors for frequencies below 3 MHz Part 8: Detailed
specification for connectors, four signal contacts and earthing contacts for cable screen
IEC 61076-3-104, (under consideration) Connectors with assessed quality for use in
d.c., low frequency analogue and in digital high speed data applications - Part 3-104: 8
way connectors for frequencies up to 600 MHz [Category 7 Detail Specification]


Data Centres
ANSI/EIA/TIA-942-200? (pending) Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data
Centers
prEN 50173-5 Information technology - Generic cabling systems -- Part 5: Data centers

Earthing, grounding and bonding

ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2 Grounding and Bonding Specifications for Screened Horizontal
Cabling
ANSI/J-STD--607-A-2002 Commercial Building Grounding (Earthing) and Bonding
Requirements for Telecommunications
CAN/CSA T527-94 Grounding and Bonding for Telecommunications in Commercial
Buildings
EN 50310 Application of equipotential bonding and earthing in buildings with
information technology equipment.
HD 384.5.54 S1 1988 Electrical installations of buildings Part 5: Selection and erection
of electrical equipment Chapter 54: Earthing arrangements and protective conductors
(IEC 60364-5-54:1980, modified)
IEC 60364 Electrical installations of buildings - part 5 - chapter 548: Earthing
arrangements and equipotential bonding for information technology systems