TIA Issues Call for Interest on New Project For Commercial Buildings

Arlington VA. (January 24, 2024) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.1 Engineering Committee on Premises Telecommunications Infrastructure has issued a call for interest for document TIA-568.1-F initially titled “Commercial Buildings”. TR-42.1 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: This Standard specifies requirements for cabling infrastructure including cabling topology, architecture, design and installation practices, test procedures, and components. The cabling infrastructure specified by this Standard is intended to support a wide range of commercial building sites, applications (e.g., voice, data, text, video, and image), and systems particularly those that utilize or can utilize IP-based infrastructure.

The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: End users, customers, installers, contractors, consultants, manufacturers, designers, integrators, architects, engineers.

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 Cheryl Thibideau at standards-process@tiaonline.org.