TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Guidelines for Supporting Power Delivery over Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling

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TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Guidelines for Supporting Power Delivery over Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling

Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation.

Arlington VA. (June 26, 2014) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.7 Engineering Committee on Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems (568) has issued a call for interest for document TSB-184-A initially titled "Guidelines for Supporting Power Delivery over Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling".

This revision to TIA TSB-184 will include considerations for 4-Pair PoE and higher current. The update will focus on increased current levels (up to 1A per pair), specific use cases and installation condition considerations. Examples of the installation conditions to be considered are delivery systems such as conduit, cable tray, and through fire stops. Other areas will include expanding the recommendations on cable bundle sizes, bundling of patch cords, additional cable types and mixing of cable type bundles."

The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: Manufacturers, users, and installers of cables, connectors, and cabling for data networks, manufacturers, users, system integrators, and installers of data networks used for remote power delivery.

TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.

For more information about TR-42 and how to participate in standards development with TIA, contact Germaine Palangdao at standards@tiaonline.org.

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