TIA Issues New Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard- Addendum 2: Additional Considerations for Category 6A Patch Cord Testing Standard

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TIA Issues New Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard- Addendum 2: Additional Considerations for Category 6A Patch Cord Testing Standard

Arlington, VA (November 13, 2014) – The Telecommunications Industry Association, which develops standards for the information and communications technology industry, has released a new document, TIA-568-C.2-2 Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard, Addendum 2: Additional Considerations for Category 6A Patch Cord Testing.

TIA-568-C.2-2 specifies requirements for telecommunications infrastructure for Category 6A patch cord testing requirements to allow test heads qualified to IEC 61935-2 to be used to qualify a patch cord to TIA 568C.2 C6A compliance. Justification: TIA C6A test heads and ISO C6A test heads used for measurement of patch cords have slightly differing requirements. These differences cause negligible differences to measured patch cord results, however they create a situation where a patch cord test head cannot be both TIA and ISO compliant. This causes practical difficulties in both laboratory and field measurements of cords.

TIA-568-C.2-2 was formulated under the cognizance of the TIA TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems, TR-42.7 Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems (568) subcommittee.

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

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

TIA-568-C.2-2 and all TIA standards may be purchased at http://global.ihs.com.

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