Specifications

Technology Upgrade Testing 28 7700-1
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SECTION 28 7700 – TESTING
PART 1 - GENERAL
1.01 WORK INCLUDED
A. This section provides direction on testing of copper and fiber cable, labeling, and
administration of the drawings and information
1.02 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
A. All cables installed shall be tested and labeled.
PART 2 - PRODUCTS
2.01 MANUFACTURERS
A. Approved vendors for cable testers are:
1. Fluke or equal
2.02 TESTING PRODUCTS
A. Category 6 cable shall be tested.
1. Cable tester shall support Cat 6 channel and permanent link certification.
2. Tester shall provide accuracy beyond TIA level III requirements traceable to
laboratory reference standards.
3. Through add on fiber optic probes, the tester shall be able to test multimode and
single mode fiber cable.
4. Test results shall be able to be stored on internal or removable compact flash
memory cards.
5. Tester shall have optional talk set for discussions over the cable being tested.
6. Tester shall support a frequency range of 1-350 MHz with accuracy to the current
proposed TIA Level III.
7. Tester shall support the following tests:
a. Near end crosstalk (NEXT).
b. Attenuation.
c. Equal level far end crosstalk (ELFEXT).
d. Return loss.
e. Ambiant noise.
f. Wire map shall identify miswires, shorts, opens, reversals, and split pairs.
g. Shall measure cable length and distance to faults (if any).
h. Propagation delay.
i. Loop resistance.
8. Tester shall support the following test standards:
a. TIA Cat 6 and ISO Class E.
b. TIA Cat 5.
c. TIA TSB-95.
d. TIA Cat 3, 4 and 5 per TIA TSB-67.
e. UTP, STP, SCTP coaxial and twinax cabling.
f. IEEE: all Ethernet 802.3UTP and fiber PMD interfaces including 1000BASE-T;
other 802.x PMD interfaces including token ring and demand priority.
g. ATM: All UTP and fiber PMD interfaces.
9. Tester shall have all required probes and accessories required to perform CAT-6
tests and “Network Tests.”
10. Tester shall have been recently calibrated (within 4 months), and shall be utilizing the
latest software.
B. Fiber Optic Tester: