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Over the final two weeks of 2015, we here at
TESTING Cabling Installation & Maintenance, along with
Time-domain-based the staffs of several other titles published by our
cabling testing parent company PennWell, moved our corpo-
rate offices. The fact that our new office is about
a quarter mile down the road from our old office
is of little consequence. We experienced every-
thing that goes into an office move and, as you
PATRICK McLAUGHLIN probably know all too well, there's not enough
patrick@pennwell.com room on this page to describe it all in detail.
INSTALLATION When we arrived at our new workplace on
Conduit wrench December 30, we took a tour of the place, admiring the freshness of every-
for cut-in boxes
thing. I even got to stick my head into the equipment room because even
though all the cabling was completed, some final network connectivity qual-
ity-control was underway. And while I didn't get the opportunity to chat with
the crew that installed the cabling systems in our new office, I knew exactly
where they were and what they were doing on December 30. They were about
a quarter-mile away, at our old facility, removing the cabling that had been
put in place 17 years earlier.
CONNECTIVITY As we have documented many times over the years, it is a violation of
Water-tight connectors
the National Electrical Code to abandon cabling when vacating a facility.
for conduit
Abandoned-cable removal became a requirement with the 2002 edition of the
NEC. In the years since then it has become a regular course of business for in-
stallers (removers) of cabling; it also has become a necessary budgetary line
item for companies, like ours, that leave a facility.
In the article that immediately follows this one, Chris DiMinico weighs in
on a proposed revision to the 2017 edition of the NEC that would, he opines,
NETWORK CABLE
Dividers for cable
add "complexity, cost, and confusion of the cabling requirements, safety, and
management Code enforcement." The specific proposed revisions DiMinico calls out are
those that would add the requirement to install cables rated "LP" for certain
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circuits that will transmit Power over Ethernet.
Power management for We scratched the surface on this topic in our September 2015 issue, and
remote radio units something tells me that Chris DiMinico's article this month won't be the fi-
nal word we publish on it. The 2017 NEC revision process is in a fairly ad-
vanced stage. As always, we will keep you up to date as we know more
information. Based on the tone of DiMinico's article, this topic is likely to di-
rectly, and maybe dramatically, affect designers, installers and owners of ca-
bling systems.
TABLE 725.144, Ampacities of Each Conductor (in Amperes) in a 4-Pair Class 2 or Class 3 Data Cable,
Based on Copper Conductors at Ambient Temperature of 30°C (86°F) with All Conductors in All Cables
Carrying Current, 60°C (140°F), 75°C (167°F) and 90°C (194°F) Rated Cables
AWG Numberof 4-Pair Cables in a Bundle
1 2-7 8-19 20-37 38-61 62-91 92-192
Temp Rating Temp Rating Temp Rating Temp Rating Temp Rating Temp Rating Temp Rating
60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C 60°C 75°C 90°C
26 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.7 0.8 1.0 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.6 NA NA NA
24 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 1.4 1.6 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.6 0.7 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.5
23 2.5 2.5 2.5 1.2 1.5 1.7 0.8 1.1 1.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.6
22 3.0 3.0 3.0 1.4 1.8 2.1 1.0 1.2 1.4 0.7 0.9 1.1 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.5 0.6 0.7
Note 1: For bundle sizes over 192 cables, or for conductor sizes smaller than 26 AWG, ampacities shall be permitted to be determined by qualified personnel under
engineering supervision. Note 2: Where only half of the conductors in each cable are carrying current, the values in the table shall be permitted to be increased by
a factor of 1.4. Informational Note: The conductor size in data cables in widespread use are typically 22-26 AWG.
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the 802.3 Working Group before poten- principal with CommScope, pointed Category 8, or wait?
tially being approved. That long-wind- out in an article we recently published Via regular correspondence, members
ed-but-abbreviated description of the (“Category 8 questions answered,” of the TIA TR-42.7 Telecommunications
very beginning of the standards pro- October 2015), “IEEE 802.3bq Task Force Copper Cabling Systems Subcommittee
cess serves as a disclaimer, because the is collaborating with TIA TR-42.7 and are aware of the potential call for in-
idea that a 50GBase-T specification may ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 25/WG3 to ensure terest for 50GBase-T. As such, at the
someday come to fruition is just that— consistency and compatibility of the ca- most recent meeting of the TR-42
an idea. There has not been a call for in- bling specifications with the ‘link seg- Telecommunications Cabling Systems
terest for 50GBase-T and, according to ment’ specifications in IEEE 802.3bq Committee meeting in October, TR-42
a member of the 802.3bq Task Force, applications. Liaison letters to clarify decided it would not immediately pub-
the 25/40GBase-T specification will be requirements or provide additional in- lish the Category 8 cabling standard
completed without a 50GBase-T compo- formation are generated at most meet- even if TR-42.7’s work on the standard
nent. If 50GBase-T ever becomes a real- ings and latest drafts of the TIA and ISO was complete.
ity, it will do so after the finalization of Category 8 specifications are sent to the The thinking is that if indeed the
25/40GBase-T. IEEE 802.3bq committee where they are IEEE moves forward with 50GBase-T
Nonetheless, in the current “idea” posted in a ‘private,’ password-protected and targets Category 8 as the support-
stage that precedes a call for interest, area for members to review and com- ing media, the TIA will hold open the
the intent would/will be for 50GBase-T ment. The relationship between IEEE possibility that Category 8’s electri-
to operate over Category 8 cabling. That 802.3bq and its companion cabling stan- cal performance requirements may
possibility has at least a couple impli- dards organizations has been very posi- need to be made more restrictive (i.e.
cations for the Category 8 standard. tive and constructive, with several com- better-performing) in order to sup-
As Masood Shariff, engineering senior mon members attending the meetings.” port 50GBase-T.
On one hand, waiting to publish Category 8 for this reason
would save TR-42/TR-42.7 from having to create a “Category
8A” standard (or something with similar nomenclature) to
support 50GBase-T. On the other hand, consumer behavior
patterns have shown time and again that official standardiza-
tion of a Category cabling performance level prompts an in-
crease in purchases of that technology. So for the few cabling
vendors that have developed systems intended to comply with
the forthcoming Category 8 specifications, the wait may con-
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Whenever ANSI/TIA-568-C.2-1 is complete, the Category
8 work will not be entirely over for TR-42.7. Valerie
Maguire, director of standards and technology for Siemon,
explained in our recent “Category 8 questions answered”
article: “TIA is developing requirements for Category 8 ca-
bling constructed from Category 8 components and is also
undertaking an initiative to develop Class II cabling re-
quirements that will harmonize with ISO/IEC. The Class
I and Category 8 cabling specifications support modular
RJ45-style connectors. The performance associated with
Class II cabling can only be realized when Category 8.2 ca-
bles are used in conjunction with non-RJ45 interfaces such
as the Siemon TERA connector.” In a Web-delivered sem-
inar held November 5, Maguire said, “Substantial compo-
nent-related work needs to be done” on the TIA’s Category 8
Class II specifications.
Also in that seminar, Maguire advised, “Until
25/40GBase-T processing capabilities are finalized, it’s too SPEAK WITH THE EXPERTS!
early to make a guarantee of 25/40GBase-T application sup-
port for any grade of cabling,” and that, “Performance to a
draft Category 8 cabling specification is not the same as a
25/40GBase-T application support claim.”
We will continue to follow and report on the development
of the IEEE 802.3bq specifications, as well as the possibility
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Optical designs provide multiple ways to reach speeds, distances continued
A joint task group (JTG) within TIA “Optical shortwave technology is en- “By contrast, SWDM technology
TR-42 has decided it will use the 32G abled by vertical cavity surface emit- allows users to leverage their installed
Fibre Channel and 100GBase-SR4 link ting lasers [VCSELs], which are the most duplex multimode fiber at 40 or
models to determine fiber parameters cost-effective lasers used in data cen- 100 Gbits/sec, using four VCSELs
for the WBMMF standard. By satisfying ter interconnections. VCSELS have been operating at different wavelengths
both models, the WBMMF standard will widely deployed at data rates up to 10 multiplexed into a single strand of
support at least 28 Gbits/sec/wavelength Gbits/sec, and these deployments have multimode fiber, thereby requiring
to at least 100 meters, and it also will driven large-scale installations of duplex only one transmit fiber and one
support at least 100 Gbits/sec/fiber to at multimode fiber in enterprise and cloud receive fiber. This provides the ability
least 100 meters. data centers. A common technique to in- to migrate from 10 to 40 or 100
Multimode-based WDM technology crease the data rate beyond 10 Gbits/sec Gbits/sec, while minimizing overall
is an ecosystem, requiring optical fiber is the use of four parallel VCSELs, each power dissipation and maximizing
cabling capable of handling transmis- running at 10 or 25 Gbits/sec, transmit- transmission distance.”
sion over multiple wavelengths but also ted over ribbons of parallel fiber. This The existence of serial and paral-
requiring the development of transceiver technique requires eight fibers instead lel transmission lanes, as well as short-
technology that facilitates the gener- of two—four to transmit and four to re- wave wave division multiplexing, will
ation, transmission and reception of ceive. Installing such a parallel fiber can provide system designers with multiple
those signals. represent an expensive overhaul to the architectures upon which they can build
In that vein, the Short-wave Wave fiber plant in the data center due to the high-speed transmission systems for a
Division Multiplexing Alliance (SWDM need for increased fiber capacity in the number of environments. u
Alliance) formed in fall 2015. Upon trunk and also new patch cables to the
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and is entirely tutorial, which is usually does what can be challenging to sort connectivity of network assets] are easy
to be avoided. It is, however, the clause out. Belden’s Poulos explained that to answer. AIM is an emerging ISO/IEC
that provides the ‘Why’ for AIM and DCIM solutions “can range from soft- standard that defines the management
links the requirements of Clause 5 to ap- ware solutions to full-scale hardware, of structured cabling, patching, and net-
plications and benefits, and discusses software and sensor solutions,” while work connectivity. An intelligent con-
such aspects as: managing and utilizing AIM “includes both the hardware that nectivity management solution lever-
assets, automatic infrastructure docu- automatically detects insertion or re- aging the AIM standard is an ideal tool
mentation and monitoring, event man- moval of patch cords, such as an intelli- to automatically track patching activi-
agement and alerting, and the deploy-
ment of new services. It also discusses Magic Quadrant for DCIM tools
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“An AIM-based intelligent connec- increase in DCIM investments, although completeness of vision on one axis (the
tivity management solution should be DCIM adoption patterns do vary by or- X axis) and according to its ability to
considered an integral part of any best- ganization size and geography.” The an- execute on the other axis (the Y axis).
in-class DCIM suite to strengthen the alyst later added, “Price, ease of deploy- Each axis is divided in the middle, so
intelligent, real-time management of ment, and overall ease of use continue the entire plot is divided into quadrants.
the physical infrastructure,” Van Scoy to be some of the biggest concerns cus- Offerings that climb more than halfway
continued. “With a true DCIM solu- tomers have when selecting a DCIM ven- up each axis land in the Leaders quad-
tion, users have comprehensive com- dor and product. They are also among rant. Those more than halfway up the
mand-and-control over both IT and fa- the top reasons why some organiza- vision axis but less than halfway up the
cilities resources. Any data point can be tions are choosing not to deploy DCIM, execution axis are in the Visionaries
fed into the suite or from the suite using yet or at all.” quadrant. Those on the lower half of
open, industry-standard interfaces and
protocols. Data can be collected, aggre-
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ises, edge, and colocated); 3) Investment be viewed as pools of resources to enable
Naming the leaders in predictive analytics and automation greater agility and flexibility.”
Similarly and also in October, IDC issued technologies to enable the lights-out Automated infrastructure manage-
its report “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide data center. ment and data center infrastructure
Data Center Infrastructure Management Jennifer Koppy, IDC’s research di- management are distinct technologies
2015 Vendor Assessment.” Its ratings qual- rector for data center trends and strate- and, as the detail in this article shows,
ify the 15 vendors’ strategies and capabil- gies, commented, “DCIM is a collection perform quite different functions. Yet
ities and characterizes analyzed vendors, of tools to increase the visibility into and they are similar in that, like just about
in descending order, as Leaders, Major control over data center resources from any technology, they require careful
Players, Contenders and Participants. Its the critical facilities layer up through to consideration to determine their appro-
2015 assessment included one Contender the IT management layer. The provid- priateness for a given situation before
and no Participants. ers in this space approach these man- they are implemented.
An excerpt from the document states, agement challenges in different ways. As When implementing either type of
“The ultimate goal of a data center is organizations investigate a software-de- solution, a user organization may ex-
to deliver IT services to end customers, fined approach to IT architecture, the in- pect its vendor to play a hands-on role in
and data center managers are under in- clusion of solutions such as DCIM that setup and launch. The soft cost of a us-
creasing pressure to deliver this service enable visibility through the critical facil- er’s effort to get the system working eas-
quickly, wherever and whenever needed, ities layer should be considered. This re- ily could be underestimated. u
without compromising uptime and re- search uncovers the breadth and scope of
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are contributor-level members. Ideal to support 2.5- and 5-Gbit/sec transmis- progress, and indications are the IEEE
Networks’ membership is recent; the sion. In a project authorization request standard is on something of a fast track.
company announced it joined the alli- (PAR) approved in early 2015, the TIA’s The alliance said, “By fostering collab-
ance on December 11. TR-42.7 Subcommittee said the TSB it oration among its many members, the
At the time of that announcement, intends to publish (which will be num- alliance provided an industry forum
Ideal Networks business unit manager bered TSB-5021) will include test re- for discussing and resolving techni-
Dan Payerle stated, “NBase-T technol- quirements needed to qualify installed cal issues in order to streamline discus-
ogy extends the life of existing cabling cabling to support those speeds. The sions at IEEE meetings. 802.3bz tech-
plants by taking a partial step between TSB may also recommend mitigation nical baselines were adopted in May
1G network speeds and 10G, and there- procedures that could be used on in- 2015, all of which were compatible with
fore creating a low-cost path to multi- stalled systems. the NBase-T specification. The 802.3bz
gigabit speeds. Simply by changing to draft is already substantially com-
network equipment based on NBase Focused on 11ac plete and at its last meeting, the Task
technology, network owners can in- While the NBase-T Alliance intends to Force agreed to accelerate its schedule,
crease speeds of their existing Category broaden the applications for which 2.5G aiming for approval of the standard in
5e and Category 6 cables up to 5 Gbits/ and 5G connectivity is deployed—the September 2016.”
sec at lengths up to 100 meters, saving group mentioned small cells, service
recabling costs, installation time, and provider gateways, security cameras Another perspective
invasive disruption to the physical infra- and Carrier Ethernet among others—it Despite emphasis on the use of in-
structure of any enterprise building.” clearly is aiming squarely at the 802.11ac stalled Category 5e and Category 6 ca-
He also noted that it is critical that market, and in particular that wireless bling for 2.5G and 5G, sentiment, par-
end users or network equipment re- technology’s “Wave 2.” ticularly in the cabling industry, is that
sellers test the existing cabling plant’s “The transition to next-generation it is advisable for users to install new,
ability to support higher speeds be- 802.11ac Wave 2 access points will drive Category 6A cabling if they plan to de-
fore NBase-T equipment is installed. significant demand for 2.5G ports in the ploy these speeds.
“Because material quality and instal- coming years, as this technology will al- In its Standards Informant blog post
lation workmanship varies greatly, it low enterprises to cost-effectively deliver describing IEEE 802.3bz, Siemon stated
is strongly advised that key metrics in more bandwidth while reusing parts that the company “recommends that
the cabling be retested before commit- of their existing infrastructure,” said Class EA/Category 6A or higher grade of
ting to the equipment upgrades to en- Matthias Machowinski, research direc- cabling be used for support of new IEEE
sure seamless, robust operation. Ideal tor for enterprise networks and video 802.11ac-2013-based enterprise wireless
Networks and the NBase-T Alliance with IHS. “2.5G ports will be one of the access point uplink connections, even
are collaborating to establish recom- bright spots in the switching market, if it is anticipated that 2.5GBase-T or
mended test methods for installed growing at a 175-percent CAGR through 5GBase-T equipment will be deployed.”
cable infrastructure in enterprises calendar year 19,” he added. Additionally, in the Quarter 2,
around the world.” Chris DePuy, vice president of re- 2015 issue of The Standards Advisor,
The alliance plans to formalize a cer- search on the enterprise edge for CommScope updated the progress of
tification program, through which it in- Dell’Oro Group, observed in mid-2015, TIA’s TSB-5021: “A draft document is be-
tends to work with a third party to de- “We saw the very first 2.5/5 GE port ing developed, with the recommenda-
fine test suites, facilitating testing and shipments begin to ramp at the end of tion that Category 6A is used for new
labeling of compliant products. June, and expect volumes to begin rising projects that will deploy 2.5G/5GBase-T.”
Meanwhile, a formal work significantly ... The benefit of increased While this official recommendation
project is underway within the throughput without replacing cable ... is months away from being published,
Telecommunications Industry could push port counts over 1 million in the NBase-T Alliance specifications aim
Association (TIA) to develop a telecom- only a year.” to squeeze more throughput out of in-
munications systems bulletin (TSB) The alliance’s efforts over a year plus stalled Category 5e and 6. u
for the purpose of evaluating twist- have indeed been productive; IEEE and
ed-pair cabling systems for their ability TIA standard-development efforts are in Patrick McLaughlin is our chief editor.
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
AFL.............................................................4-5
Arlington Industries.................................... 29
Brother Mobile Solutions Inc. .................. CV4 ADVERTISING SALES OFFICES
Chatsworth Products ....................................2
Corning Optical Communications LLC..... CV2 MAIN OFFICE INTERNATIONAL
61 Spit Brook Road AUSTRIA, EUROPE, GERMANY,
Diamond Ground Products Inc................... 38 Suite 401, Nashua, NH 03060 NORTHERN SWITZERLAND
Dymo Corp.....................................................6 (603) 891-0123 Holger Gerisch
fax: (603) 891-9245 +49-(0)8801-9153791
Fluke Corporation ....................................... 11
Fax: +49-(0)8801-9153792
General Cable Company .............................12 GROUP PUBLISHER
holgerg@pennwell.com
Alan Bergstein
HJ3.W Inc. .................................................. 36 (603)-891-9447 ISRAEL
Hsing Chau Industrial Co. Ltd. ....................32 alanb@pennwell.com Dan Aronovic
+972 9 899 5813
Hyperline Systems Canada Ltd. ..................16 ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER/
NATIONAL SALES MANAGER aronovic@actcom.co.il
ICC Premise Wiring ............................... 9, 23 Ed Murphy ASIA
Ideal Industries Inc. ................................... 20 (603) 891-9260 Adonis Mak
Light Connection, The.................................25 fax: (603) 891-9245 +852 2 838 6298; Fax: +852 2 838 2766
edm@pennwell.com adonism@actintl.com.hk
Milliken....................................................... 35
REPRINTS JAPAN
Oberon Inc.................................................. 38 Ed Murphy Masaki Mori
OFS..............................................................15 (603) 891-9260 +81 3 3219 3561
Siemon Company.........................................19 fax: (603) 891-9245 mori-masaki@ics-inc.co.jp
edm@pennwell.com
Snake Tray...................................................10 TAIWAN
DIRECTOR, LIST RENTAL Ms. Rebecca Tsao
Softing Inc...................................................14 Kelli Berry +886 2 23965128 ext.203
Southwire Company ....................................37 (918) 831-9782 Fax: 886 2 23967816
Telegartner Karl Gartner GmbH .................18 kellib@pennwell.com rebecca@arco.com.tw
Universal Electric Corp.............................. 26
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switch revenue.
Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., research
SDN Ethernet switches
director for data center, cloud and and controllers
SDN at IHS, adds, “New SDN use to top $1.4 billion
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cases continue to emerge, and the 2014 2015
first half of 2015 was no exception,
with the establishment of the soft-
ware-defined enterprise WAN (SD-WAN) mar- Vendors tracked by the report include Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Big
ket. The SD-WAN market is still small, but Switch, Brocade, Centec, Cisco, Cumulus, Dell, Extreme, HP, Huawei, Juni-
many startups and traditional WAN optimiza- per, Lenovo, Midokura, NEC, Pica8, Plexxi, PLUMgrid, VMware, White
tion appliance vendors and network vendors Box. The report is part of IHS Infonetics’ “Data Center Networks Intelli-
have jumped in.” gence Service.” u
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