NECA/BICSI 568 : 2006

Foreword
1. Scope
   1.1 Products and Applications Included
   1.2 Regulatory and Other Requirements
   1.3 Local Code Requirements
2. Definitions, Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Units of
   Measure
   2.1 Definitions
   2.2 Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Units of Measure
3. Support Structures
   3.1 General
   3.2 Pathways
       3.2.1 General
       3.2.2 Cable trays
       3.2.3 D-rings and mushrooms
       3.2.4 Conduits
       3.2.5 Supports
       3.2.6 Surface raceway
   3.3 Spaces
       3.3.1 Plywood
       3.3.2 Equipment racks
       3.3.3 Floor-mounted cabinets
       3.3.4 Wall-mounted equipment racks and cabinets
   3.4 Bonding Infrastructure
       3.4.1 General
       3.4.2 Bonding conductor
   3.5 Installing Cable Support Systems
       3.5.1 General
4. Pulling Cable
   4.1 General
   4.2 Cable Pulling Setup
       4.2.1 Overview
       4.2.2 Pulling horizontal cable in conduit
       4.2.3 Pulling horizontal cable in open ceiling
       4.2.4 Pulling backbone in vertical pathway - from
             top down
       4.2.5 Pulling backbone in vertical pathway - from
             bottom up
       4.2.6 Pulling backbone - horizontal
       4.2.7 Cable pulling precautions
5. Firestopping
   5.1 General
   5.2 Typical Installations
       5.2.1 Sealing a floor penetration with putty
       5.2.2 Sealing an outlet box with putty
       5.2.3 Steps - restore penetrations (general)
6. Cable Terminations
   6.1 General
   6.2 Pre-terminations Functions
       6.2.1 General
   6.3 Copper IDC Termination
       6.3.1 General
       6.3.2 Steps - IDC termination
   6.4 Fiber Terminations
   6.6 Copper Cable Splicing
   6.6 Optical Fiber Cable Splicing
7. Installation Verification
Annex A: Field Test Requirements
 A.1 General
 A.2 100-Ohm Balanced UTP Cabling
     A.2.1 Test instruments
     A.2.2 Performance parameters
     A.2.3 Permanent link test configuration
     A.2.4 Channel test configuration
     A.2.5 Backbone and other cabling test configuration
 A.3 Optical Fiber Cabling
     A.3.1 Test instruments
     A.3.2 Performance parameters
     A.3.3 Cabling test configuration
     A.3.4 Verifying test jumper quality
 Annex B: Reference Standards

Describes minimum requirements and procedures for installing the infrastructure for telecommunications, including balanced twisted-pair copper cabling and optical fiber cabling that transport telecommunications signals (e.g., voice, local area network).