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Structured Cabling Standards
Industry standards committees ensure that the guidelines
for structured cabling are independent of both the
manufacturer and technology and that certain, specific
requirements for the proper operation of the cabling
system are met.
Standards bodies such as the TIA/EIA (Telecommunications
Industry Association and the Electrical Industry
Association), created for Commercial Building
Cabling, have a main objective. The TIA/EIA standard
divides the structured cabling system into several
subsystems or components, thus the term "structured".
It includes standards for transmission and inter-connect
specifications and structured cabling sub-systems.
The advantage of sticking to the industry standards
is the knowledge that your cabling will be compatible
with standards applications. The disadvantage
is that standards organizations seem to take their
good old time ratifying the standards. The final
standard may also be different than the proposed
standard, but the differences are usually minimal.
You will often see cable listed as meeting proposed
standards. For example, the proposed standard
for Category 6 is 250 MHZ, and the proposed standard
for Category 7 is 600 MHZ.
The important thing to remember is this: the
proposed standards are improvements over Category
5 and Category 5e cable, and should serve you
well in terms of speed and headroom for future
applications.
Network managers face a difficult challenge when
fitting up a new corporate facility. They must
ensure that every possible employee location is
accessible to the corporate LAN, but they must
also ensure that each of these locations can successfully
work with a potentially broad range of new high
speed LAN technologies, since these technologies
are rapidly gaining in importance and becoming
cost effective. The solution to these challenges
lies in implementing a structured cabling system
within a new facility. Such a system must extend
to every employee work area and must be able to
support all of the existing LAN technologies and
all of the new and emerging high speed LAN technologies,
since it is impossible to predict where within
a facility the highest capacity users will be
at any time in the future.
Netways Canada strives to meet and exceed these
parameters and certifies every cable installed,
let us quote your
project today.
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