A record 150 participants from nearly 30 nations gathered in Munich, Germany, April 14-18 for the 31st meeting of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 204 for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); ISO/TC204. The weeklong series of meetings resulted in significant advances in international ITS standardization that will facilitate trade, sustainable development, security, health and safety issues and enable technological advances that transform the way people travel and communicate. The meeting was hosted by the German Institute of Standardization (DIN) and was made possible with generous sponsorship from Siemens and BMW. 

Meeting highlights include:

• A successful outreach workshop outlining the Korean government’s “Ubiquitous City” initiative, designed to promote the convergence of all communications systems with the aim of creating continuous city-wide networking to provide business, transport, safety and personal services.  A second meeting has been scheduled for November 2008 at the ISO/TC204 meetings in Ottawa, Canada.
  
  
• The introduction/approval of the following ITS-related work items:

• Data Privacy Aspects of ITS (Working Group 1: Architecture)
• Business Integration Architecture (Working Group 1: Architecture)
• Data interfaces between centres for transport information and control systems using XML (Working Group 9: Integrated Transport Information, Management and Control)
• Conformance Test of Application Management (Working Group 16: Wide Area Communications)
• Lawful Interception in ITS and CALM (Working Group 16: Wide Area Communications)
• Data Retention for Law Enforcement in ITS and CALM (Working Group 16: Wide Area Communications)
• Event-Based Probe Vehicle Data (Working Group 16: Wide Area Communications)
• Road transport and traffic telematics - Automatic vehicle and equipment identification – Interfaces (Working Group 5: Electronic Fee Collection)
• The use of nomadic and mobile devices to support ITS service and multimedia provision for travelers (Working Group 17: Nomadic Devices)
  
  
• Approval to publish the following ITS standards:
  • Vehicle Probe Data for Wide Area Communication (Working Group 16: Wide Area Communications)
  • Data Exchange Involving Roadside Modules communication (3 parts) (Working Group 3: ITS Database Technologies)
  • Low Speed Following Systems (Working Group 14: Vehicle/Roadway Warning and Control Systems)
  • Full Speed Range Adaptive Cruise Control Systems  (Working Group 14: Vehicle/Roadway Warning and Control Systems)

The 32nd meeting of ISO/TC204 will take place November 10-14, 2008, in Ottawa, Canada. If you wish to participate in any of these meetings, please contact Tyler Messa (contact information provided below). Organizations may send experts to participate internationally or as part of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (U.S. TAG), the domestic mirror committee and official U.S. delegation to ISO/TC204. 

As both the ISO/TC204 International Secretariat and the Administrator of the U.S. TAG – the domestic mirror committee – to ISO/TC204, TIA plays a central role in helping shape standardization in this emerging and dynamic field. Membership in the U.S. TAG is open to all materially affected organizations with a U.S. presence.  Currently there is no fee to join the U.S. TAG, although sponsorships are welcome. If you would like to participate in the technical work of either group, or are interested in attending the next meeting of the U.S. TAG as an observer, please contact Tyler Messa at: tmessa@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7743.

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TIA has published TIA Standard 568-B.2-10: Transmission Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 Ohm Augmented Category 6 Cabling. Category 6A cabling supports the next-generation of Internet applications, including the transfer of larger amounts of data at higher speeds, up to 10 Gigabit data rates.

Since network cabling is part of a building’s infrastructure, the installation of new cabling is expected to serve the needs of the occupants for a minimum of 10 years. Networking demands, technology advances and economics dictate that the 10GBASE-T Ethernet standard will be widely deployed by 2013. This means that the cabling installed today will need to support at least two generations of Ethernet. Category 6A cabling is specifically designed to support the network demands of the next generation 10GBASE-T Ethernet standard, providing superior network performance.

Category 6A cabling also supports "bundled cable" implementations for channels up to 100 meters, as well as for short reach mode (low power) implementations for distances up to 30 meters.

The standard addresses the newer cable designs, which are about 0.30 inches in diameter, compared with 0.25 inches for high-end Category 6 and 0.2 inches for Category 5e. The cable itself is designed with larger conductors (23 AWG minimum), tighter twists and more airspace in the core. This provides a cable with much lower losses at high frequencies and significantly better alien crosstalk isolation between cables.

Another benefit of the larger conductors and the lower packing density is better heat dissipation. This is a benefit for the next-generation Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) standard, which is intended to deliver 30 to 60 watts of power over two pairs or four pairs respectively.

TIA-568-B.2-10 was formulated under the cognizance of the TIA TR42.7: Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems Engineering Committee.

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TIA has published TIA-102.AABC-B-3: Trunking Control Channel Messages Addendum for ISSI Supplementary Data. 

This new addendum updates information given in TIA-102.AABC-B: Trunking Control Channel Messages and adds the message changes required to support the Supplementary Data feature for the Inter Sub-System Interface (ISSI) for Project 25 digital trunked radio systems.

P25 is an interoperability suite of standards for digital two-way wireless communications products and systems. TIA, in collaboration with prominent public safety organizations, generates standards, interim standards, specifications and telecommunications systems bulletins that define the equipment and processes necessary for implementation of digital public safety radio communications under the APCO/NASTD/FED Project 25 standard.

APCO/NASTD/FED is composed of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO), the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), and federal government agencies (FED).

The standard TIA-102.AABC-B-3 was formulated under the cognizance of the TIA TR-8: Mobile and Personal Private Radio Standards Engineering Committee’s TR-8.10: Trunking and Conventional Control Subcommittee. To obtain copies of the document, contact IHS International, Inc., at +1.800.854.7179 or visit IHS International, Inc.

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If you are interested in participating in the development of standards or in any of the TIA standards-development process, please complete an online application..

New Documents Available:
TIA-1132, Minimum Specification for Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast Forward Link Only Repeaters (4/9.08)

TIA-102.BAAD-1, Common Air Interface Description for Conventional Channel Addendum 1 - Packet Data Registration/OTAR Messages and Procedures (4/9/08)

TSB-102.BABF, Experiment 3 MOS Test Plan for Vocoder Technology for Project 25 Phase 2 (4/9/08

TIA-718-C, Minimum Performance Specification for the Enhanced Variable Rate Codec, Speech Service Options 3, 68, and 70 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital Systems (4/6/08)

TIA-718-C [SF], Software Distribution for Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC), Speech Service Options 3, 68, and 70 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Systems, Minimum Performance Specification (MPS) (4/16/08)

TIA-1132,  Minimum Specification for Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast Forward Link Only Repeaters (4/6/08)

American National Standards:
TIA-862, Building Automation Systems Cabling(4/16/08)

TIA-455-212, IEC 61290-6-1: Optical Fibre Amplifiers – Basic Specification  Part 6-1: Test Methods for Pump Leakage Parameters – Optical Demulplexer (4/16/08)

TIA-568-B.2-10, Transmission Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 Ohm Augmented Category 6 Cabling(4/16/08)TIA-942-1, Data Center Coaxial Cabling Specifications and Application Distances (4/16/08)

To obtain copies of these documents, contact Information Handling Services at +1.800.854.7179 (United States and Canada) +1.303.397.7796 (international) or visit http://global.ihs.com.

To check the status of any ballot (PN or SP), go to the TIA web page in the Standards Section to obtain current information. The link for PN ballots is:
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/sfg/pn_report.cfm or for SP ballots
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/committees/ballots/sp_report.cfm.

Check the TIA Calendar for upcoming standards meetings or events.

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