www.ThePhysicalLayer.

com
Compendium of standards, by type 002 November 2004 BElliott
www.ThePhysicalLayer.com
1
Dr Crosstalks giant compendium of cabling and LAN
standards

Sorted by type November 2004 edition

Disclaimer. A list of cabling and related standards can never be fully complete, finished or indeed correct. No liability is
accepted by the authors for any error or omission. The latest versions and issues of standards should be checked on the
web sites of the TIA, ISO, IEC, CENELEC and IEEE.

Administration Standards

ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Infrastructure
of Commercial Buildings
CAN/CSA T528-93 Design Guidelines for Administration of Telecommunications
Infrastructure in Commercial Buildings
ISO/IEC 14763-1 Information technology Implementation and operation of
customer premises cabling Part 1: Administration

Cabling system design standards

The obsolete TIA 568 standards are still often quoted so are listed here for
completeness

ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-A Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard, 1995.( replaced by 568-B in 2001)
Addendum 1 Propagation Delay and Delay Skew Sept 1997
Addendum 2 Corrections and Additions to TIA-568-A Aug 1998
Addendum 3 Hybrid Cables Dec 1998
Addendum 4 Patch Cord Qualification Test Aug 1999
Addendum 5 Additional Transmission performance Specifications for 4-
Pair 100 ohm Category 5e Cabling Nov 1999
TIA/EIA TSB 67 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin.
Transmission Performance Specifications for Field Testing of Unshielded
Twisted Pair Cabling Systems, Oct 1995.
TIA/EIA TSB 72 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Centralized
Optical Fiber Cabling Guidelines. Oct 1995.
TIA/EIA TSB 75 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Additional
Horizontal Cabling Practices for Open Offices Aug 1996.
TIA/EIA TSB 95 Telecommunications Systems Bulletin Additional
Transmission Performance Guidelines for 100 Ohm 4 pair Category 5
Cabling. August 1999.

Current TIA standards (as at December 2004)

ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2001 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-2000 Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard
www.ThePhysicalLayer.com
Compendium of standards, by type 002 November 2004 BElliott
www.ThePhysicalLayer.com
2

Addenda
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-1-2001 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 1 - Minimum 4-Pair UTP and
4-Pair ScTP Patch Cable Bend Radius
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 2 - Grounding and Bonding
Requirements for Screened Balanced Twisted-Pair Horizontal Cabling
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-3-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 3 - Supportable Distances
and Channel Attenuation for Optical Fiber Applications by Fiber Type
ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-4-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 4 - Recognition of Category 6
and 850 nm Laser-Optimized 50/125 m Multimode Optical Fiber
ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-5-2004 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 1: General Requirements - Addendum 5 - Telecommunications
Cabling for Telecommunications Enclosures
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1-2002 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Components - Addendum 1 - Transmission
Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 Ohm Category 6 Cabling
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2-2001 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 2
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-3-2002 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling - Addendum 3 - Additional
Considerations for Insertion Loss and Return Loss Pass/Fail Determination
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-4-2002 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Components - Addendum 4 - Solderless
Connection Reliability Requirements for Copper Connecting Hardware
ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-5-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 5 -
Corrections to TIA/EIA-568-B.2
ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-6-2003 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling
Standard - Part 2: Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling Components - Addendum 6 -
Category 6 Related Component Test Procedures

ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-1-2002 Cabling Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard
- Addendum 1 - Additional Transmission Performance Specifications for 50/125 um
Optical Fiber Cables

Technical System Bulletins
TSB-125-2001 - Guidelines for Maintaining Optical Fiber Polarity Through Reverse-
Pair Positioning
TSB-140 Additional Guidelines for Field Test Length, Loss and Polarity of Optical
Fibers (2004)
TSB-149 Generic Workmanship Guidelines for Fiber Optic Connector Interoperability
TSB-153 Static Discharge Between LAN and Data Terminal Equipment (2003)

Draft Standards
TIA-568-B.1-6-200? (pending) Addendum 6 - Additional Cabling Requirements
for DC Power