PART 3 EXECUTION
3.17 TELECOMMUNICATIONS IDENTIFICATION
A. All equipment and cabling shall be properly identified by means of clear and concise labels. All identification shall meet or exceed the minimum requirements of EIA/TIA 568B Series
standard, 606 and BICSI standards.
B. Permanently label, using pre-printed labels, all cables and terminations. Handwritten or embossed type labels are specifically prohibited.
1. Label all equipment racks, panels, and cross connect blocks uniquely. 2. Label patch panels and cross-connect blocks numerically, top-to-bottom. 3. Label cable segments by designated incoming cable.
C. Labels
1. Provide color-coded labels with CODED identifiers as follows:
a. Conduits and other pathways shall be labeled at all end points, including equipment rooms, telecommunications closets, pull boxes and the like. Provide adhesive labels on all conduits, with at least one label within each space that the conduits pass through. Labels shall be attached by means of the label adhesive and
color-coded pressure-sensitive tape wrapped around conduit at least one and one- half times.
b. Cables shall have double lapped adhesive labels at all end points including Work Area Outlets, telecommunication closets and equipment rooms. Cables shall also have factory imprinted manufacturer's name, part number, and the NRTL-certified UL EIA/TIA category rating designation at a minimum of two foot (610mm) intervals along the entire length of the cable.
c. Termination hardware shall have adhesive labels on both the front and rear (if accessible) of the hardware.
d. Insert Labels shall be provided in each Work Area Outlet patch panel termination hardware (top of jack), cross connect blocks (edge of block), and the like.
e. Outlet boxes, junction boxes, and the like shall have adhesive labels attached on the inside and located where visible from the outlet opening.
f. Grounding and bonding systems shall have engraved labels at each ground bar and backbone grounding cable as it passes through each room. Each bonding jumper shall have heat shrink labels at all end points.
2. Labels shall be constructed of approved material in order to meet the legibility,
defacement, adhesion (adhesive labels only), and exposure requirements of UL 969. All labels shall be mounted horizontally in order to be read from left to right.
a. Adhesive Labels shall be constructed of color-coded paper with a clear polyester over laminate, Brady USA, Inc. PermaShield, Raychem TMS, or approved equal. Adhesive material used shall be approved for material being attached to, typeface shall be medium density, Helvetica, 1/8 inch (3mm) high black characters unless indicated otherwise.
b. Heat-Shrink Labels shall be constructed of color-coded flame retardant, heat shrinkable polyolefin, Brady USA, Inc, Raychem TMS, or approved equal. Typeface shall be medium density, Helvetica 1/8 inch (3mm) high black characters unless indicated otherwise.
c. Insert Labels shall be constructed of color-coded paper inserted behind clear plastic label holder. Work Area Outlets shall have white color labels inserted behind a flush mounted (recessed) plastic window. Patch panels and cross-connect block may have continuous clear plastic insertion strip label holders with label strips. Label strips shall have distinct markings to indicate where one jack or cross-connect ends and the adjacent one starts. Typeface shall be medium density, Helvetica 1/8 inch (3mm) high black characters unless indicated otherwise. d. Each Network Interface Outlet shall have each of its eight-position modular jacks
provided with a color-coded, embossed modular ICON. The telephone jack icon shall be red and shall have either the word "VOICE" or a telephone logo. The data jack icon shall be blue and shall have either the word "DATA" or a computer logo. The Network Interface Outlet jack provided shall also be able to have additional ICON types such as, but not limited to, "LAN1 " or "LAN2" and the like available for use. Coordinate with the Owner through the architect, the specific icons required for this project.
e. Handwritten or embossed labels are not allowed.
3. Color Coding
a. Provide hierarchical color-coded labels as follows: 1) Terminations Color Code:
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TERMINATIONTYPE COLOR PANTONE COMMENTS
Demarcation point Orange 150C Central office termina-
tions
Network Green 353C Network or connec-
tions auxiliary circuit termination
Common equipment PBX, Host, LANS, Muxes
Purple 264C Used for all major
switching and data equipment terminations
First level backbone White MC-IC cable termina-
tions Second level back-
bone
Gray 422C IC-TC cable termina-
tions Data
horizontal
Blue 291C Data System Horizon-
tal cable terminations
Miscellaneous Yellow 101C TERMINATION
TYPE Telephone
Horizontal
Red 184C Telephone system hori-
zontal cable termina- tion
b. Horizontal Cables Color Code: All horizontal and backbone connection hardware shall have color-coded labels.
c. Cables shall be standard manufacturer’s colors.
d. All Category cables shall be different colors: Category 5, 5e, 5E and Category 6, Category 6A cables.
e. Voice cables shall be different color than data cables. f. Backbone Cables Color Code:
1) Shall be standard manufacturer’s colors. Category 3 backbone cables overall color shall be a different color than Category 5, 5e, 5E 6, and 6A backbone cables overall color. UTP backbone cables shall have different colors than fiber optic backbone cables.
2) 25 pair UTP backbone cables shall have their conductor pairs color- coded as follows:
PAIR COMBINATION COLOR CODE
1 White/Blue Blue/White 2 White/Orange Orange/White 3 White/Green Green/White 4 White/Brown Brown/White 5 White/Slate Slate/White 6 Red/Blue Blue/Red 7 Red/Orange Orange/Red 8 Red/Green Green/Red 9 Red/Brown Brown/Red 10 Red/Slate Slate/Red 11 Black/Blue Blue/Black 12 Black/Orange Orange/Black 13 Black/Green Green/Black 14 Black/Brown Brown/Black 15 Black/Slate Slate/Black
PAIR COMBINATION COLOR CODE 16 Yellow/Blue Blue/Yellow 17 Yellow/Orange Orange/Yellow 18 Yellow/Green Green/Yellow 19 Yellow/Brown Brown/Yellow 20 Yellow/Slate Slate/Yellow 21 Violet/Blue Blue/Violet 22 Violet/Orange Orange/Violet 23 Violet/Green Green/Violet 24 Violet/Brown Brown/Violet 25 Violet/Slate Slate/Violet
g. Category 3, 5, 5e, 5E 6, and 6A - 100 pair backbone cables shall contain four 25- pair binders. Each 25-pair binder group shall maintain 25-pair backbone conductor pair color code similar to 25-pair backbone cable. All 25-pair binder groups shall be cut down in order of the following binder color:
1) Blue
2) Orange
3) Green
4) Brown
5) White conductors shall have a co-extruded color stripe to match its companion conductor for efficient pair identification.
4. Coded Identifiers
a. Provide coded identifiers as follows:
BCxxx bonding conductor BCDxxx backbone conduit Cxxx cable CBxxx backbone cable CDxxx conduit CTxxx cable tray
ECxxx equipment (bonding) conductor
EFxxx entrance facility
ERxxx equipment room
Fxxx fiber
GBxxx grounding bus bar
HHxxx handhole
ICxxx intermediate cross-connect
Jxxx jack
LRxxx ladder rack
MCxxx main cross-connect
MHxxx manhole or maintenance hole
PBxxx pull box
SExxx service entrance
SLxxx sleeve
TCxxx telecommunications closet
TGBxxx telecommunications grounding bus bar
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D. Label Identification1. The Work Area Outlet shall be labeled with an identifier similar to below:
2. Data Connectors
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D07 A-0 1 = Outlet Identifier
D XX X-XX = Data or Telephone designation
X 07 X-XX = IDF/ICER or MDF/MERCER Room Number
X XX A-XX = Patch panel or cross connect block designation
X XX X- 01 = Port number within patch panel or cross connect
block
3. Video Connectors
V2 01 01-01 = Outlet Identifier
V X XX-XX = Video designation
X2 XX XX - XX = Number designation of jack
XX 01 - XX = IDF/ICER Room Number location of Multi-Tap
XX XX - 01 = Port number designation on Multi-tap
a. IDF/ICER Room Number shall be Owner assigned room numbers if applicable, or construction room numbers if not applicable.
1) Confirm with the owner for the IDF/ICER room numbers to be used before labeling is begun.
b. Each jack within outlet faceplates shall have unique numerical identifier (i.e., 1, 2, 3, etc.). Numbering of each jack shall start at the upper most left jack, go from left to right and end at the lower most right jack. Identifier shall match the number associated on the horizontal patch in the telecommunications closet.
4. Patch Panel Labeling:
a. Each patch panel in a wire center shall be labeled alphabetically starting with “A”. b. Label patch panels starting from left most rack moving down and moving to the
next rack to the right and down.
c. Each patch panel port shall have color-coded identification label. Continuous label strips for multiple in-line ports are acceptable. Silk screened identifiers "l" through "48" are acceptable.
1) Handwritten labels will not be accepted.
d. Each port on the patch panel shall be labeled with the faceplate identifier of the attached cable. For example, “A100”.
1) The above example illustrates the labeling for the cable attached to faceplate in room A100.
e. Provide a cross-reference chart as per the TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
5. UTP Cable Labeling:
a. Each cable shall be labeled at each end with an overlap label identifying the corresponding WAO faceplate jack label.
6. 110 Field Termination Labeling:
a. Each station label on the 110-type connector block shall consist of the corresponding WAO faceplate jack label.
b. Building automation systems shall be labeled accordingly as “FIRE.1”, “FIRE.2”, or “ELEV.1”, “ELEV.2”, etc.
c. Provide all 110-binding post information as per the TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEMS DOCUMENTATION below.