T568.3-05 (R2010)

CSA Preface This is the first edition of CSA T568.3, Optical fiber cabling components standard. It replaces CSA T529-95, Telecommunications Cabling Systems in Commercial Buildings. 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.3-2000 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 Standard specifies minimum requirements for optical fiber components used in premises cabling, such as cable, connectors, connecting hardware, patch cords and field test equipment.