AS 11801.1:2019 Information technology - Generic cabling for customer premises, Part 1: General requirements (ISO/IEC 11801-1:2017, MOD)
Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand
This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee CT- 001, Communications Cabling, to supersede as follows:
AS 11801.1, in conjunction with AS 11801.2, supersedes AS/NZS 3080:2013, Information technology— Generic cabling for customer premises (ISO/IEC 11801:2011, MOD)
AS 11801.1, in conjunction with AS 11801.3, supersedes AS/NZS ISO/IEC 24702:2007, Telecommunications installations — Generic cabling — Industrial premises
AS 11801.1, in conjunction with AS 11801.4, supersedes AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15018:2005, Information technology—Generic cabling for homes
AS 11801.1, in conjunction with AS 11801.5, supersedes AS/NZ ISO/IEC 24764:2012, Generic cabling systems for data centres
This Standard incorporates Amendment No. 1 (DECEMBER 2022). The start and end of changes introduced by the Amendment are indicated in the text by tags including the Amendment number 1.
Amendment No. 1 to this Standard was prepared by the Australian members of the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee CT-001, Communications Cabling. As a consequence of Amendment No. 1, which is published as an Australian-only amendment, this Standard will be redesignated from AS/NZS 11801.1 to AS 11801.1.
The objective of this Standard is to specify requirements that are common to the other parts of the AS 11801 series. Cabling specified by this Standard supports a wide range of services including voice, data, and video that may also incorporate the supply of power.
This Standard specifies the following:
(a) In Australia, the fundamental structure and configuration of generic cabling requirements within the types of premises defined by the other parts of the AS 11801 series.
(b) Channel transmission and environmental performance requirements.
(c) Link performance requirements.
(d) Backbone cabling reference implementations in support of the parts of the AS 11801 series.
(e) Component performance requirements, referring to available International Standards for components and test methods where appropriate.
(f) Test procedures to verify conformance to the cabling transmission performance requirements of the AS 11801 series.
A list of all parts in the AS 11801 series can be found in the Standards Australia online catalogue.
This Standard is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 11801-1:2017, Information Technology — Generic cabling for customer premises — Part 1: General requirements and its Technical Corrigendum No. 1 (2018). The modifications in Appendices ZZ and ZA are additional requirements. Appendix ZB provides additional information. These appendices have been added at the end of the source text.
This Standard is structured as follows:
(i) Preface.
(ii) ISO/IEC11801‐1:2017 and its Corrigendum No. 1 (2018).
(iii) Appendix ZZ lists the variations to ISO/IEC 11801‐1:2017 for the application of this Standard in Australia.
(iv) Appendix ZA provides information on the location of requirements related to modular plug terminated links (MPTL) that were contained in this Standard prior to Amendment No. 1. Requirements for MPTL are now contained within AS 14763.4.
(v) Appendix ZB lists other communication cabling standards and regulations.
As this document has been reproduced from an International Standard, the following applies:
(A) In the source text “this part of ISO/IEC 11801” should read “this Australian Standard”.
(B) A full point substitutes for a comma when referring to a decimal marker.
Australian or Australian/New Zealand Standards that are identical adoptions of international normative references may be used interchangeably. Refer to the online catalogue for information on specific Standards.
The terms “normative” and “informative” are used in Standards to define the application of the appendices or annexes to which they apply. A “normative” appendix or annex is an integral part of a Standard, whereas an “informative” appendix or annex is only for information and guidance.
Originated as AS 3080-1992. Revised and redesignated as AS/NZS 3080:1996. Previous edition 2013. Revised and redesignated as AS 11801.1:2019. Reissued incorporating Amendment No 1 (December 2022).
This document contains general requirements in support of the other premises-specific referenced cabling design documents developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 including ISO/IEC 11801-2, ISO/IEC 11801-3, ISO/IEC 11801-4, ISO/IEC 11801-5, ISO/IEC 11801-6 and related Technical Reports (including the ISO/IEC TR 11801-99xx series, ISO/IEC TR 24704, ISO/IEC TR 24750 and ISO/IEC TR 29125).
This document specifies a multi-vendor cabling system which may be implemented with material from single or multiple sources, and is related to:
a) International Standards for cabling components developed by technical committees of the IEC, for example copper cables and connectors as well as optical fibre cables and connectors (see Clause 2 and bibliography);
b) standards for the testing of installed cabling (see Clause 2 and bibliography);
c) applications developed by technical committees of the IEC, by subcommittees of ISO/IEC JTC 1, by study groups of ITU-T, for example for LANs and ISDN, and by IEEE 802;
d) planning and installation guides and other standards which take into account the needs of specific applications for the configuration and the use of cabling systems on customer premises (e.g. ISO/IEC 14709 series, ISO/IEC 14763 series, ISO/IEC 30129, and ISO/IEC 18598).
Physical layer requirements for the applications listed in Annex E have been analysed to determine their compatibility with cabling classes specified in this document. These application requirements, together with statistics concerning premises-specific topologies and cabling models of the supported standards, have been used to develop the requirements for balanced, coaxial and optical fibre cabling.
As a result, generic cabling defined within this document:
1) specifies balanced cabling channel and link Classes A, B, C, D, E, EA, F, FA, I and II meeting both the requirements of standardized applications and to support the development and implementation of future applications;
2) specifies balanced cabling channel and link Class BCT-B to support the delivery of BCT applications;
3) specifies coaxial cabling channel and link Class BCT-C to support the delivery of BCT applications;
4) specifies optical fibre cabling meeting the requirements of standardized applications and exploiting component capabilities to ease the implementation of applications developed in the future;
5) invokes component requirements and specifies cabling implementations that ensure performance of links and of channels that meet or exceed the requirements for cabling classes.
Figure 1 shows the schematic and contextual relationships between the standards relating to information technology cabling produced by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25, namely the ISO/IEC 11801 series of standards for generic cabling design, standards for the installation, operation and administration of generic cabling and for testing of installed generic cabling.
This part of ISO/IEC 11801 specifies requirements that are common to the other parts of the ISO/IEC 11801 series. Cabling specified by this document supports a wide range of services including voice, data, and video that may also incorporate the supply of power.
This document specifies:
a) the fundamental structure and configuration of generic cabling requirements within the types of premises defined by the other parts of the ISO/IEC 11801 series,
b) channel transmission and environmental performance requirements,
c) link performance requirements,
d) backbone cabling reference implementations in support of the parts of the ISO/IEC 11801 series,
e) component performance requirements, referring to available International Standards for components and test methods where appropriate,
f) test procedures to verify conformance to the cabling transmission performance requirements of the ISO/IEC 11801 series.
NOTE This document does not contain specific conformance requirements. The cabling design documents supported by ISO/IEC 11801-1 incorporate the requirements of this document as part of their individual conformance requirements.
In addition, this document provides information regarding the applications supported by the cabling channels.
Contents:
1: Scope
2: Normative References
3: Terms, Definitions, Abbreviations And Symbols
4: Conformance
5: Structure Of Generic Cabling
6: Channel Performance Requirements
7: Link Performance Requirements
8: Reference Implementation For Backbone Cabling Subsystems
9: Cable Requirements
10: Connecting Hardware Requirements
11: Cord Requirements
Annex A: Conformance Testing Procedures For Balanced Cabling Of Classes A To FA, I And II And Optical Fibre Cabling
Annex B: Mechanical And Environmental Performance Testing Of Connecting Hardware For Balanced Cabling
Annex C: Electromagnetic Characteristics
Annex D: Acronyms For Balanced Cables
Annex E: Supported Applications
Annex F: Optical Fibre Cable OM1, OM2, And OS1
Communications Cabling.
CT-001
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Australian Council of Trade Unions; Australian Digital and Telecommunications Industry Association; Australian Industry Group; Australian Information Industry Association; BICSI South Pacific (Australia); BICSI South Pacific (New Zealand); Energy Networks Australia; Engineers Australia; KNX National Group; National Electrical and Communications Association; Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand; Telstra Corporation.
