It’s time for the "virtual take two” of the TIA-42 Telecommunication Cabling Systems Engineering Committee's third quarter 2020 conference. To my surprise, the second and first-ever remote TIA-42 meetings went about as smoothly as the committee attendees could have hoped for.
We heard very little:
You get the idea!
To review, the TR-42 Telecommunication Cabling Systems Engineering group is organized into the below subject three categories then further defined into more specific engineering sub-committees with in these three categories.
A couple of the exciting highlights from the second quarter meetings were from the TR-42.11 Optical Fiber Systems Committee who updated the TIA-568.3, Optical Fiber Cabling Component Standard, and the TIA-PN-526.1, Optical Power Loss Measurement of Installed Multimode Fiber Cable Plant. Each of those updates were to revision “D.”
The TR-42.13 Optical Passive Devices and Metrology addressed several items with the ANSI/TIA-PN-604-19, Fiber Optic Connector Intermateability Standard – for the CS connector which included ballot comment resolutions, and the proposal of an APC variant of the connector ferrule.
So once again, stay tuned for the latest updates coming soon from the TIA-42 Engineering Group. There is always a lot of standards work to accomplish and technology to discuss.
I always look forward to collaborating with over one hundred of the smartest minds in the industry - virtually!
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About the AuthorRick Dallmann, director, data center architecture for CABLExpress, has more than 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of fiber optic cabling and structured cabling solutions.
Dallmann is an experienced speaker and has given presentations on the latest industry trends and best practices for data center infrastructure cabling at conferences throughout North America, including at BICSI, AFCOM, NY Tech Summit, and more. He authored the article, The Impact of Emerging Data Rates on Layer One Fiber Cabling Infrastructures, which was published in ICT Today, the official trade journal of BICSI. He also authored the white paper, Simplify Fiber Optic Cabling Migrations with a Multi-Path™ System.
Dallmann is a member of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology industry, and serves on their Telecommunications Cabling Systems committee.
