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American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

ANSI is a private, nonprofit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary
standardization and conformity assessment system. ANSI's mission is to promote and
facilitate voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems. 

Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

  • TIA-526-7 (OFSTP-7), Measurement of Optical Power Loss of Installed Single-ModeFiber Cable Plant (2003). 

  • TIA-526-14-A (OFSTP-14), Optical Power Loss Measurements of Installed Multimode Fiber Cable Plant (1998 [R2003]). 

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1–2001, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements. 

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-1–2001, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 1—Minimum 4-Pair UTP and 4-Pair ScTP Patch Cable Bend Radius .

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2–2003, Commercial Building Telecommunications CablingStandard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 2—Grounding and Bonding Specifications for Screened Balanced Twisted-Pair Horizontal Cabling.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-3–2003, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 3—Supportable Distances and Channel Attenuation for Optical Fiber Applications by Fiber Type.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-4–2003, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 4—Recognition of Category 6 and 850 nm Laser-Optimized 50/125 μm Multimode Optical Fiber Cabling.

  • ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-5–2004, Commercial Building Telecommunications CablingStandard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 5—Telecommunications Cabling for Telecommunications Enclosures.

  • SP-3-4425-AD6 (to become ANSI/TIA-568-B.1-6), Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 6—Additional Cabling Requirements for DC Power.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-7–2006, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 1: General Requirements, Addendum 7—Guidelines for Maintaining Polarity Using Array Connectors.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2–2001, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1–2002, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 1— Transmission Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 Ohm Category 6 Cabling.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2–2001, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 2.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-3–2002, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 3—Additional Considerations for Insertion Loss and Return Loss Pass/Fail Determination.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-4–2002, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 4—Solderless Connection Reliability Requirements for Copper Connecting Hardware.

  • ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-5–2003, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 5— Corrections to TIA/EIA-568-B.2.

  • ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-6–2003, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components—Addendum 6: Category 6 Related Component Test Procedures.

  • SP-3-4426-AD7 (to become ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-7), Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components—Addendum 7: Reliability Requirements for Connecting Hardware Used in Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling.

  • ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-9–2005, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components—Addendum 9: Additional Category 6 Balance Requirements and Measurement Procedures.

  • SP-3-4426-AD10 (to become ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10), Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components—Addendum 10: Transmission Performance Specifications For 4-Pair 100-ohm Augmented Category 6 Cabling.

  • ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-11–2005, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard—Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components—Addendum 11: Specification for Increased UTP and ScTP Cable Diameter.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3–2000, Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3-1–2002, Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard, Addendum 1—Additional Transmission Performance Specifications for 50/125 μm Optical Fiber Cables.

  • TIA-569-B–2004, Commercial Building Standards for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces.

  • ANSI/TIA-570-B-2004, Residential Telecommunications Cabling Standard.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-598-C–2005, Optical Fiber Cable Color Coding.

  • ANSI/TIA-604-2-B (FOCIS 2), Fiber Optic Connector Intermateablility Standard, Type ST (2004).

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-606-A–2002, Administration Standard for Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure.

  • ANSI J/STD-607-A–2002, Commercial Building Grounding (Earthing) and Bonding Requirements for Telecommunications.

  • ANSI/TIA-758-A–2004, Customer-Owned Outside Plant Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard.

  • ANSI/TIA/EIA-862–2002, Building Automation Cabling Standard for Commercial Buildings.

  • ANSI/TIA-94–2005, Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers.

  • TSB-125, Guidelines for Maintaining Optical Fiber Polarity Through Reverse-Pair Positioning (2001).

  • TSB-140, Additional Guidelines for Field-Testing Length, Loss and Polarity of Optical Fiber Cabling Systems (2004).

  • TSB-153, Static Discharge Between LAN and Data Terminal Equipment (2003).

  • PN-3-0134 (to become TSB-155), Additional Guidelines For 4-Pair 100-ohm Category 6 Cabling For 10GBase-T Applications. 

  • TSB-162, Telecommunications Cabling Guidelines for Wireless Access Points (2005).

Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

  • CSA C22.1-06, Canadian Electrical (CE) Code—Part I: Safety Standard for Electrical Installations.
  • CSA C22.1HB-06, CE Code Handbook—An Explanation of Rules of the Canadian Electrical Code.
  • CSA T568.1-05, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard— Part 1: General Requirements (Adopted ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001). 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.® (IEEE®) 

  • 802. and Management (Active)
     
  • 802.3™: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)
    Access Method (Active)
     
  • IEEE 802.3–2002, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunication and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications.
     
  • 1™: Local Area Network (LAN)/Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Bridging
    IEEE 802.3x—Specification for Full-Duplex Operation.
     
  • IEEE 802.3y—Physical Layer Specifications for 100 Mb/s Operation Over Two Pairs of Category 3 or Higher Twisted-Pair Cable.
     
  • IEEE 802.3z—Specification for 1000 Mb/s (Gigabit Ethernet) Operation Over Optical Fiber Cable.
     
  • IEEE 802.3ab—Specification for 1000 Mb/s (Gigabit Ethernet) Operation Over Four Pairs of Category 5 or Higher Twisted-Pair Cable, Type 100Base-T.
     
  • IEEE 802.3ac—Ethernet Frame Extensions for Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and Tagging On 802.3 Networks.
     
  • IEEE 802.3ad—Aggregation of Multiple Link Segments.
     
  • IEEE 802.3ae—Standard for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Media Access Control (MAC) Parameters, Physical Layer, and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation.
     
  • IEEE 802.3–2005, IEEE Conformance Test Methodology for IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications.
     
  • IEEE 802.3af–2003 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-3), Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) Power via Media Dependent Interface (MDI).
     
  • IEEE P802.3ah–2004 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-3), Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications Amendment: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for Subscriber Access Networks (such as Ethernet Passive Optical Network [EPON]) and Ethernet over DSL.
     
  • IEEE P802.3aj–2003 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-3), Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications Maintenance #7.
     
  • IEEE P802.3ak–2004 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-3), Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation, Type 10GBase-CX4.
     
  • IEEE 802.3AN (D3.1), Draft Amendment of IEEE Standard Information technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation, Type 10GBASE-T (2005).
     
  • IEEE 802.3AP (D2.3), Draft Revision of IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local and Metropolitan Area Networks— Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment: Ethernet Operation over Electrical Backplanes (2005).
     
  • IEEE 802.3AQ, Draft Amendment of IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment: Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation, Type 10GBase-LRM (2005). 
  • IEEE 802.3ar, Draft Amendment of IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment: Enhancements for Congestion Management.
     
  • IEEE 802.3AS (D3.0), Draft Amendment of IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)—Amendment: Frame Format Extensions (2006).
     
  • IEEE 802.3at, Draft Amendment of IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment: DTE Power via the MDI Enhancements.
     
  • IEEE 1802.3–2001, IEEE Conformance Test Methodology for IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications.
     
  • 802.11–1999/8802-11 (ISO/IEC 8802-11:1999), IEEE Standard for Information Technology—LAN/MAN—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications.
     
  • IEEE 802.11A–1999 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-11: 2005), IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment 1: High-Speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band.
     
  • IEEE 802.11b–1999 (superseded by ISO/IEC 8802-11: 2005), IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Higher Speed Physical Layer (PHY) Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band.
     
  • IEEE 802.11c–1998 (superseded by 15802-3: 1998), IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems— Local Area Networks—Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges.
     
  • IEEE 802.11d–2001 (R2003), IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications And Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications— Amendment 3: Specification for Operation in Additional Regulatory Domains.
     
  • IEEE 802.11e–2005, IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications— Amendment: Medium Access Method (MAC) Quality of Service Enhancements.
     
  • IEEE P802.11g–2003, IEEE Standard for Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Further Higher-Speed Physical Layer Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band.
     
  • IEEE 802.11h–2004, IEEE Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks— Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Spectrum and Transmit Power Management Extensions in the 5 GHz Band in Europe.
     
  • IEEE 802.11i–2004, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment 6: Medium Access Control (MAC) Security Enhancements.
     
  • IEEE 802.11j–2004, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems-Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment 7:4.9 GHz-5 GHz Operation in Japan.
     
  • IEEE 802.11p, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments.
     
  • IEEE 802.11r, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Fast BSS-Transition.
     
  • IEEE 802.11s, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh Networking.
     
  • IEEE 802.11u, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: IEEE 802.11 Interworking with External Networks.
     
  • IEEE 802.11v, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks— Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Network Management.
     
  • IEEE 802.11w, Amendment to Standard for Information Technology— Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Protected Management Frames.
     
  • IEEE 802.16–2004, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks— Part 16—Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
     
  • IEEE 802.16.2–2004, IEEE Recommended Practice for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Coexistence of Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
     
  • IEEE 802.16–2001/Conformance 01–2003, IEEE Standard for Conformance to IEEE Standard 802.16—Part 1: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) Proforma for 10–66 GHz Wireless MAN-SC Air Interface.
     
  • IEEE 802.16/Conformance 02–2003, IEEE Standard for Conformance to IEEE Standard 802.16—Part 2: Test Suite Structure (TSS) and Test Purposes (TP) for 10–66 GHz Wireless MAN-SC Air Interface.
     
  • IEEE 802.16/Conformance 03–2004, IEEE Standard for Conformance to IEEE Standard 802.16—Part 3: Radio Conformance Tests (RCT) for 10–66 GHz Wireless MAN-SC Air Interface.
     
  • IEEE 802.16–2004/Cor 1, Corrigendum to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
     
  • IEEE P802.16/Conformance 04, Standard for Conformance to IEEE 802.16—Part 4: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) Proforma for Frequencies below 11 GHz.
     
  • IEEE 802.16e–2005, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems— Amendment for Physical and Medium Access Control Layers for Combined Fixed and Mobile Operation in Licensed Bands.
     
  • IEEE 802.16f–2005, Amendment to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks— Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems— Amendment 1: Management Information Base.
     
  • IEEE 802.16g, Amendment to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems—Management Plane Procedures and Services.
     
  • IEEE 802.16h, Amendment to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems— Improved Coexistence Mechanisms for License-Exempt Operation.
     
  • IEEE 802.17–2004, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 17: Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications.
     
  • IEEE 802.17a–2004, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks— Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges—Amendment 3: Bridging of IEEE Std 802.17.
     
  • IEEE 802.17b, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks— Specific Requirements—Resilient Packet Ring Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications—Amendment 1: Spatially Aware Sublayer.
     
  • IEEE P802.20, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Standard Air Interface for Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems Supporting Vehicular Mobility— Physical and Media Access Control Layer Specification.
     
  • IEEE P802.22, Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN)—Specific Requirements—Part 22: Cognitive Wireless RAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Policies and Procedures for Operation in the TV Bands.