TIA/EIA-568-B SET-2001
Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard Part 1: General Requirements@ Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components@ and Part 3: Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard (Includes Addendums: B.1-1@ B.1-2@ B.1-3@ B.1-4@ B.1-5@ B.2-1@ B.

Standard No.

TIA/EIA-568-B SET-2001

Release Date

2001

Published By

TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association

Scope

This Standard specifies minimum requirements for telecommunications cabling within a commercial building and between buildings in a campus environment. It specifies cabling requirements@ cabling distances@ telecommunications outlet/connector configurations@ and a recommended topology. Building telecommunications cabling specified by this Standard is intended 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 3 000 m (approximately 10 000 ft)@ up to 1 000 000 m2 (approximately 10 000 000 ft2) of office space@ and with a population of up to 50 000 individual users. Telecommunications cabling systems specified by this Standard are intended to have a useful life in excess of ten years. This Standard applies to the telecommunications cabling systems of buildings for commercial enterprises that are office oriented. Purpose This Standard specifies a generic telecommunications cabling system for commercial buildings that will support a multi-product@ multi-vendor environment. It also provides information that may be used for the design of telecommunications products for commercial enterprises. The purpose of this Standard is to enable the planning and installation of a structured cabling system for commercial buildings. Installation of cabling systems during building construction or renovation is significantly less expensive and less disruptive than after the building is occupied. This Standard establishes performance and technical criteria for various cabling system configurations for accessing and connecting their respective elements. In order to determine the requirements of a generic cabling system@ performance requirements for various telecommunications services were considered. The diversity of services currently available@ coupled with the continual addition of new services@ means that there may be cases where limitations to desired performance occur. When applying specific applications to these cabling systems@ the user is cautioned to consult application standards@ regulations@ equipment vendors@ and system and service suppliers for applicability@ limitations@ and ancillary requirements.