TIA TR-8, Mobile and Personal Private Radio Standards formulates and maintains standards for private radio communications systems and equipment for both voice and data applications. These standards include business and industrial dispatch applications, as well as public safety (such as police, ambulance and fire fighting) applications.

At its meeting in Mission Valley, Calif., April 21-25, the committee actively pursued its standards goals. Elections were held for two subcommittees and the parent committee. Bernie Olson, Motorola, is the new subcommittee chair of TR-8.18, Wireless Systems Compatibility – Interference and Coverage, and Ronald Jakubowski, TX RX Systems, is the new subcommittee vice-chair. For TR-8.12, Two Slot TDMA, Ernie Hofmeister, Tyco Electronics, was re-elected Chair. John Oblak, EF Johnson, and Al Wilson, Tyco Electronics were re-elected by acclamation for another two year term as chair and vice-chair, respectively of the TR-8 Committee.

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The Standards Engineering Society (SES) will hold its 57th Annual SES Conference in San Diego, California, August 2008. TIA Vice President, Standards and Business Development, Ed Mikoski, isPresident of SES. This year's conference will explore the diversity of issues within the standards community and provide an expert panel of speakers on the following topics: Global Standards Development, Standards Development Process Issues, Product Safety, Government Issues and Standards, Business Ramifications of Standards, Post 9/11 Standardization of Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Using Standardization to Address Social Issues. A Keynote address will be provided by Mr. Robert W. Noth, Manager of Engineering Standards for Deere & Company and Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute.

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TIA has published TIA Standard 568-B.2-7, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, Part 2 - Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, Addendum 7 – Reliability Requirements for Connecting Hardware Used in Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling. This standard was developed to improve the performance reliability of copper cabling systems used in commercial buildings and premises networks.

The successful operation of a building’s overall cabling system depends on the reliability of the connecting hardware, which, in turn, depends upon properly testing the reliability of the system components according to the latest standards. TIA-568-B.2-7 specifies the reliability testing requirements for 100 Ohm balanced twisted-pair copper cabling (used in Category 6 cabling) designed to support network reliability through at least two generations of Ethernet, including the next-generation 10GBASE-T Ethernet standard, over the next 10 years.

This standard specifies testing connecting hardware to various mechanical and environmental conditions and measuring parameters, such as changes in contact resistance during and after individual test sequences. TIA-568-B.2-7 specifies test standards and schedules for:

• Solderless connections
• Modular plugs and jacks
• Other connecting hardware, including cross-connecting blocks and plugs; and pin and socket connectors

TIA-568-B.2-7 was formulated under the cognizance of the TIA TR42.7: Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems Engineering Subcommittee’s TR-42.7.1: Copper Connectors Working Group. To obtain copies of the document, contact IHS International Inc. at +1.800.854.7179 or visit http://global.ihs.com.

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TIA has published TIA-942-1: Data Center Coaxial Cabling Specifications and Application Distances. This is an addendum to TIA-942: Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers.

The new addendum specifies testing, as well as additional requirements, for connectors used for 75-ohm coaxial cabling in data centers. It also allows for longer horizontal cabling originating from the main distribution area (MDA) for coaxial cabling and amends E1, T1, E3 and T3 maximum circuit distances, specified in Annex A of TIA-942, to permit longer distances.

This addendum was prepared by the TR-42.1 Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Subcommittee and approved by TR-42.1, the TR-42 Engineering Committee and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

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TIA has published TIA Standard 102.BAAD-1, Common Air Interface Description for Conventional Channels, Addendum 1 – Packet Data Registration/OTAR Messages and Procedures.

Federal, state and local public safety agencies, utilities, railroads, manufacturers, and a wide variety of other businesses rely on the conventional channels of private land mobile radio systems, i.e., two-way radio, every day. To ensure that communication is reliable and secure when using emerging digital technology, TIA-102.BAAD-1 defines additional packet data standards for two-way radio systems, including Packet Data Registration, Packet Data Scan Mode and Packet Data Encryption Support features, such as changing encryption by Over-the-Air-Re-keying (OTAR).

TIA-102.BAAD-1 was formulated under the cognizance of the TIA TR-8.15: Common Air Interface (CAI) subcommittee, with input from the APCO Project 25 Interface Committee (APIC), APIC Data Task Group and TIA members.

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, 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).

To obtain copies of the document, contact HIS International Inc. at +1.800.854.7179 or visit http://global.ihs.com.

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New Project Proposals:
Project Proposal No. 3-0296-1 proposed creation of new TIA standard CAVE-Based IMS Security (if approved, to be published as TIA-1141) (4/30/08)

Project Proposal No. 3-4652.000-RV2-AD4 [E] proposed revision of TIA standard Wireless Features Description (if approved, to be published as TIA-664.000-B-4 [E]) (4/30/08)

Project Proposal No. 3-4652.807 proposed creation of new TIA standard Wireless Features Description: Generic Broadcast Teleservice Transport Capability: Network Perspective (if approved, to be published as TIA-664.807) (4/30/08)

Project Proposal No. 3-4652.808 proposed creation of new TIA standard Wireless Features Description: Circuit Switched Call Precedence Over CDMA Packet Data Session (if approved, to be published as TIA-664.808) (4/30/08)

Project Proposal No. 3-0123 proposed creation of new TSB Evolution Document (if approved, to be published as TSB-152) (4/30/08)

Project Proposal No. 3-0317 proposed creation of new TIA standard IMS Centralized Services Stage 1 Requirements (if approved, to be published as TIA-1147) (4/30/08)

New Documents Available:
TIA-168-B, Telecommunications  Telephone Terminal Equipment Labeling Requirements (4/30/08)

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 (4/16/08)

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 IHS International Inc. 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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