T568.1-2-05 (R2010)

CSA Preface This is the first edition of CSA T568.1-2, Commercial building telecommunications cabling standard - Part 1: General requirements - Addendum 2 - Grounding and bonding specifications for screened balanced twisted-pair horizontal cabling. This Standard is an adoption of the identically titled ANSI/TIA (American National Standards Institute/Telecommunications Industry Association) Standard 568-B.1-2-2003 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. PURPOSE AND SCOPE This Standard specifies additional requirements for grounding (earthing) and bonding of installed screened balanced twisted-pair horizontal cables and connecting hardware used within a commercial building environment.