TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Structured Cabling Infrastructure Standard for Intelligent Building Systems

Arlington VA. (July 31, 2020) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.1 Engineering Committee on Premises Telecommunications Infrastructure has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-862-C initially titled “Structured Cabling Infrastructure Standard for Intelligent Building Systems”. TR-42.1 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: “This Standard specifies requirements for intelligent building system 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 systems, particularly those that utilize or can utilize IP-based infrastructure. This revision will include the contents of Addendum 1 to ANSI/TIA-862-B; modifications needed due to the recent revision of ANSI/TIA-568.0; and the inclusion of single-pair cabling as specified in ANSI/TIA-568.5.”

The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: Designers; installers; systems integrators; equipment manufacturers; consultants; contractors; integrators; building owners; building managers; end users.

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@tiaonline.org.

A major function of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the writing and maintenance of voluntary industry standards and specifications. These activities are carried out by the volunteer members of TIA engineering committees. On the public engineering committee pages, users will find recent meeting reports, agendas and notices for upcoming meetings, as well as links to some of the most popular standards from each committee. TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Visit tiaonline.org.