Structured Cabling Systems
How structured cabling is designed, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Ottawa projects: the TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801 model, entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms, backbone and horizontal cabling and their limits, copper categories and performance, connectors and outlets, optical fibre, pathways under TIA-569, labelling and records under TIA-606, design rules and cable takeoffs, and a capstone design for a full office floor.
LVT-120 12 lessons · 4 h 6 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Low Voltage Systems
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain what makes cabling structured, how standards-based cabling replaced vendor cabling, and how codes, standards, specifications and warranties apply to a project
- Describe the elements of the structured cabling model in the terms of TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801, and check a design against the hierarchical-star rules
- Describe the requirements for entrance facilities, equipment rooms, telecommunications rooms and enclosures, and size a room from its rack layout
- Select backbone media for the distances and applications involved, size backbone fibre and copper, and plan risers and diverse routes
- Apply the 90 m and 100 m horizontal limits, including route allowances, temperature and cord derating, consolidation points and multi-user outlets
- Explain how twisted pair works, compare the copper categories and shielding constructions, and interpret the main performance parameters
- Identify modular connectors, the T568A and T568B schemes, patch panels, blocks, outlets and cords, and plan the outlets of a work area
- Describe multimode and singlemode fibre, fibre cable constructions, connectors and polarity, and calculate a fibre loss budget
- Select and lay out conduit, cable tray and non-continuous supports within the fill, bend, spacing and support rules of TIA-569
- Assign identifiers, labels and records to a cabling system according to TIA-606
- Apply the design rules to place outlets, check room coverage, manage PoE bundle heating and prepare a cable takeoff and bill of materials
- Design the structured cabling for an office floor from requirements to issued drawings, and review a design from the installer's side
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 6 min total · final exam
- 1 Why structured cabling 22 min · quiz
- 2 The structured cabling model (TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801) 21 min · quiz
- 3 Entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms 21 min · quiz
- 4 Backbone cabling 20 min · quiz
- 5 Horizontal cabling and the channel 21 min · quiz
- 6 Copper cable categories and performance 20 min · quiz
- 7 Connectors, outlets and work areas 21 min · quiz
- 8 Optical fibre in the structured cabling system 21 min · quiz
- 9 Pathways and spaces (TIA-569) 19 min · quiz
- 10 Labelling and documentation (TIA-606) 21 min · quiz
- 11 Design rules, limits and cable counts 19 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: designing the cabling for an office floor 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How structured cabling is designed, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Ottawa projects: the TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801 model, entrance facilities, equipment rooms and telecommunications rooms, backbone and horizontal cabling and their limits, copper categories and performance, connectors and outlets, optical fibre, pathways under TIA-569, labelling and records under TIA-606, design rules and cable takeoffs, and a capstone design for a full office floor.