Structured cabling standards and documentation

Skills you'll practise

• Explain permanent link vs channel and the 90 m / 100 m copper limits
• Interpret wire-map results and choose between verification and certification testing
• Calculate a simple fiber link loss budget
• Read and correct cable schedules and labels using a consistent, TIA-606 style scheme

Course outline

1. 1.Structured cabling: links, tests and recordsVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Links, channels and what testers proveLesson · 15 min
3. 3.Fiber loss budgets, labeling and recordsLesson · 15 min
4. 4.Pathways, trays and cable management at scaleLesson · 14 min
5. 5.Structured cabling standards and documentation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 33 questions
6. 6.Structured cabling standards and documentation: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• ANSI/TIA-568 series: Commercial building telecommunications cabling
• ANSI/TIA-606: Administration standard for telecommunications infrastructure (labeling and records)
• ANSI/TIA-569: Telecommunications pathways and spaces
• ANSI/TIA-942: Telecommunications infrastructure standard for data centers
• Your equipment vendors' installation and service guides (rail kits, PSU and BMC documentation)
• Leviton installer guide: four-pair UTP bend radius guideline (4 x cable outside diameter; the cable's specified minimum governs)