Activity in TIA TR-42

Bob JensenTR-42 Chair

TR-42 Responsibility

• Premises Telecommunications Cabling Standards• All Optical Fiber Standards

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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

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Initiatives• Loss Budget Task Group (TR-42.11)• Encircled Flux Round Robin (TR-42.11)

– TSB is being worked on– Work may focus on 850nm only

• Bend insensitive multimode fiber (TR-42.11 and TR-42.12)– Attempting to ensure encircled flux compliance

• Pursuing the next edition of premises standards in TR-42 (e.g., 568-D Series)– Editors working on drafts (TR-42.1, TR-42.7 and TR-42.11)

• Developed Editor's draft 0.5 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– Will be known as category 8

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Initiatives• Educational Facilities

– Ballot issued by Subcommittee• Large facilities (e.g., stadiums, airports)

– Task Group pursuing investigations• Ensuring security of cabling (physical)

– Task Group continues on working draft to include electronics, cabling, physical damage, terrorism, industrial sabotage, data security for wired and wireless

• Fabric architecture for data centers– Document out for default ballot

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Initiatives• M2M is being monitored for affects on TR-42• Telecommunications Cabling Guidelines for Wireless

Access Points– Originally written in 2006; is being revised to include current

and forseen wireless access points (e.g., 802.11ac)• Distributed antenna systems (DAS)

– Currently included in educational facilities document• Energy Management Systems

– A revision to TIA-862-A is being sought.• Addendum to TIA-607-B, Bonding and Grounding

– Use of structural metal

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Initiatives• STEP (Sustainable Technology Environment Program)

– Subcommittee name: “Sustainable information communications technology”

– Subcommittee Scope: “The TR 42.10 Subcommittee develops and maintains voluntary standards, guidelines and recommendations for sustainable information communications technology”

– Leadership• Chair: Julie Roy• Vice-chair: Glenn Sexton• Secretary: Ray Emplit

– Task Group established to take proposed draft and develop into a standard (Project request approved)

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Initiatives• Distributed antenna systems (DAS)

– Currently included in educational facilities document– Task Group for educational facilities transformed into Task

Group for DAS• TR-42 helps the building industry and end-users by

allowing cabling to be installed to support a wide-range of applications (overall lowering complexities)– Usually need service provider “approval”– Varying designs– Request help from TSSC to obtain interested parties

Standards Update

Annex

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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• Published August 14, 2012• This addendum updates various optical fiber topics including polarity, field-

testing, 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

• Published May 12, 2012• 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– Published August 6, 2012

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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• Published August 13, 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-B

• Commercial Building Standard for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces, October 2004– Addendum 1 – Temperature and Humidity Requirements for

Telecommunications Spaces• Published

• Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces– Developing “Generic” requirements– Not specific to commercial buildings– Approved for publication at October 2011 meeting

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TIA-570-C

• Residential Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard, April 2012– References 568-C.4 for coaxial cabling– Published August 16, 2012

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TIA-606-B

• Administration Standard for Telecommunications Infrastructure– Published June 22, 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 August 26, 2011– Includes information for bonding and grounding from the

entrance facility to the equipment racks in telecommunications rooms

– Allows larger gauges of bonding conductors– Includes a 2-point ground test using a earth ground

resistance tester– Addendum for ground electrodes and ground testing

approved for publication– New addendum on bonding to structural metal

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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 March 30, 2011– Few changes made to the standard

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TIA-942-A• Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers

– Published August 2, 2012– 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 3, 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).