TIA Issues Call for Interest on New Project and issues a Ballot for Guidelines on Shared Pathways and Shared Sheaths

Arlington VA. (December 13, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.7 Engineering Committee on Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems has issued a call for interest and ballot for document TSB-190-A initially titled “Guidelines on Shared Pathways and Shared Sheaths”.

TR-42.7 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: This TSB provides guidance and supporting data related to:

• Multiple applications operating over different cable categories or constructions sharing the same pathways
• Alien Crosstalk interference between category 6A UTP cables manufactured by different manufacturers
• Alien crosstalk interference between category 6A UTP cables and other category cables, and

Multiple applications running within the same sheath.

 The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: IEEE, installers, customers, users of cabling systems.

TIA is actively seeking participation in this process from the user and general interest communities.

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