User`s manual

B-12 Rev B NetDoc™ User’s Manual
Telecommunication Space (TS)
A dedicated area used for housing the installation and termination of telecommunications
equipment and cables
(e.g., equipment rooms, telecommunication rooms, work areas and maintenance
holes/handholes). A TS may also be used for intermediate and main cross-connects.
There is no limit on the number of telecommunication spaces allowed. Some floors in multi-
story office buildings may have multiple telecommunication spaces, depending on the floor
plan. These may be connected to an telecommunication room on the same floor.
Termination Hardware
Any piece of hardware that terminates a circuit or conductor.
Tubes
A semi-rigid, hollow plastic tube that houses and protects a number of optical fibers. The fibers
can be either individually coated or organized into coated ribbons. An outer polyethylene
jacket surrounds the entire cable. Loose-tube cable is used in outside plant (OSP)
applications, where extremes of temperature, rough handling, and mechanical disturbances
make tight buffered cable unsuitable.
UTP
Unshielded twisted pair. Twisted-pair copper cables without metallic braid shielding —
capable of high-speed voice and data transmission. The most common cabling used in the
U.S. in structured wiring.
Wallboxes
See Faceplates.
Work-Area Components
Connect end-user equipment to the horizontal cabling system. The location where
telecommunications cabling is connected to work area equipment (e.g., PCs, telephones) by
means of a faceplate.
Work Area
Also called a workspace or work station. Consists of communication outlets (wallboxes and
faceplates), wiring, and connectors needed to connect the work space equipment (computers,
printers, etc.) via the horizontal wiring subsystem to the telecommunication closet. The
standard requires two outlets at each wall plate: one for voice and one for data.