T568.3-1-05 (R2010)

CSA Preface This is the first edition of CSA T568.3-1, Optical fiber cabling components standard - Addendum 1 - Additional transmission performance specifications for 50/125 µm optical fiber cables. This Standard is an adoption of the identically titled ANSI/TIA/EIA (American National Standards Institute/Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronic Industries Alliance) Standard 568-B.3-1-2002 and is the product of the Telecommunications Industry Association TR-42 Technical Committee, which included a number of Canadian members in order to ensure that Canadian perspectives and requirements were addressed. It is written in SI (metric) units with yard/pound (imperial) units in parentheses. 2. SCOPE 2.1 Applicability This Addendum specifies minimum requirements for this optical fiber telecommunications cable used within a commercial building and between buildings in a campus environment. In addition to the requirements specified in this Addendum, this cable shall meet all of the requirements of ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3 and any of its respective addenda. This addendum provides requirements for multimode cable with higher performance over other multimode cable specified in ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.3 and recognizes advances in cabling and optical transceiver technology, particularly technologies based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs).