NT1310 Building Codes

Telecommunications Cabling
Building
Codes
Kevin
Wingate – NT1310

Introduction
• The information in this presentation should be useful in making design-related decisions that will not only satisfy the move to our new building Information
Technology (IT) requirements but also meet the needs of the building and its future occupants with respect to voice, video and data communications

ANSI/EIA/TIA standards
• * ANSI/EIA/TIA standards 568-C-Commercial Building Telecommunications
Cabling Standard
• * ANSI/EIA/TIA 569-- Commercial Building
Standards for Telecommunications
Pathways and Spaces; ANSI/EIA/TIA 606Administration Standard for the
Telecommunications Infrastructure of
Commercial Buildings

• * ANSI/EIA/TIA 607-Commercial Building
Grounding and Bonding Requirements for
Telecommunications; BICSI
Telecommunications Distribution Methods
Manual (TDMM) and NFPA 70--National
Electric Code (NEC).

• ANSI/TIA-606-B “Administration Standard
Telecommunications Infrastructure” was developed by the TIA TR-42.6
Infrastructure Administration
Subcommittee and published in June,
2012. This Standard specifies four classes of administration based upon the complexity of the cabling plant being administered. ANSI/TIA-606-B “Administration
Standard cont
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* Class 1 Administration
* Class 2 Administration
* Class 3 Administration
* Class 4 Administration

ANSI/TIA-606-B “Administration
Standard cont
• * Class 1 provides for the telecommunications infrastructure administration needs of a premises that is served by a single equipment room (ER)

ANSI/TIA-606-B “Administration
Standard cont
• * Class 2 provides for the telecommunications infrastructure administration needs of a single building or of a tenant that is served by single or multiple telecommunications spaces (e.g., an equipment room with one or more telecommunications rooms) within a single building ANSI/TIA-606-B “Administration
Standard cont
• * Class 3 provides for the telecommunications infrastructure