Activity in TIA TR-42

1. Activity in TIA TR-42 Bob Jensen TR-42 Chair

2. TR-42 Responsibility Premises Telecommunications Cabling Standards All Optical Fiber Standards

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. Standards Update Annex

10. 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

11. 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,

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)

15. 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

16. TIA-570-C • Residential Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard, April 2012 • References 568-C.4 for coaxial cabling • Published August 16, 2012

17. 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

18. 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

19. TIA-758 • Customer-owned Outside Plant Telecommunications infrastructure Standard • Published • Few changes made to the standard • Testing includes technologies such as XDSL

20. TIA-862-A • Building Automation Systems Cabling Standard • Published March 30, 2011 • Few changes made to the standard

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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

24. 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).