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TIA TIA-569-B Document Information:
Title
Commercial Building Standard for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces
Telecommunications Industry Association
Publication Date:
Oct 1, 2004
Scope:
General
The scope of this Standard is limited to the telecommunications aspect
of commercial building
design and construction, encompassing telecommunications pathways and
spaces. Telecommunications
pathways are designed for installation of telecommunications media,
and telecommunications spaces
are the rooms and areas where media is terminated and
telecommunications equipment is installed.
Although the scope is limited only to the telecommunications aspect of
building design, this
Standard significantly influences the design of other building
services, such as electrical power
and HVAC. This Standard also impacts space allocation within the
building.
This Standard does not cover safety aspects of building design; the
reader is directed to the
introduction of this Standard for safety and building code references.
Other codes and standards
may also apply to the installation of telecommunications pathways and
spaces.
This Standard does not cover any telecommunications systems that
require any special types of
security measures.
Both single- and multi-tenant buildings are recognized by this
Standard. Occupancy usually occurs
after the base building has been provisioned, based on the
requirements of this Standard; however,
the distinct needs of individual tenants in a multi-tenant building
may need to be accommodated by
additional telecommunications pathway and space facilities beyond
those provided in the base
building design. It is expected that, at occupancy time, each
individual tenant will design the
telecommunications pathways and spaces in conformance to
ANSI/TIA/EIA-569-B. As a result, the
build-out design may also include pathways and spaces to support a
two-level backbone cabling
hierarchy for each tenant.
Basic building elements
Telecommunications has an impact on most every area within and between
commercial buildings.
Because of this, and the additional fact that the useful life of a
building may span many decades,
it is important that the design and construction of new or remodeled
buildings be performed with an
objective of avoiding obsolescence. When a building is designed with
its life cycle in mind, the
resulting building will be responsive to the many changes that occur
in both telecommunications
media and systems over the life of the building.
Figure 1 illustrates the relationships between the major
telecommunications pathway and space
elements within a building. The list of these elements that follow the
figure describes the
characteristics of each element; numbers are keyed to respective
sections within this Standard.
Figure 2 is a representative model of the various functional elements
that comprise multi-tenant
pathways and spaces in a commercial building; this is not intended to
be an all-inclusive
representation. It depicts the relationship between the elements and
how they are configured to
create a total system.
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