3M Structure Cable
3M Structure Cable
3M Structure Cable
Installation Guide
March 2017
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Warnings
Protective Eyewear
CAUTION
Safety glasses should be worn when handling chemicals and checking the optical fibre.
Chemical Precautions
WARNING
Storage, use and disposal of isopropyl alcohol should be per your company’s health, safety, and
environmental instructions. Refer to the Safety Data Sheet for health hazards, safe handling, and
proper use and control measures.
CAUTION
Cleaved glass fibers are sharp and can pierce the skin. Use tweezers when handling shards and
dispose of them properly per your company’s health and safety instructions.
Fibre/Cable Handling
CAUTION
Optical fibre can be damaged by excessive tensile, compressive and bending forces. Consult the
manufactures’ specifications for proper handling instructions.
Laser Safety
CAUTION
Take the proper precautions when working with optical fiber because invisible laser light may be
present. The principal laser hazard when working with fiber optics is injury to the eye. Never look
directly into the fiber or connector using the naked eye, eye loupe or manual view scope.
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Foreward
This manual provides a comprehensive guide to the installation of the 3M™ Copper and Fibre Cabling
System. It is intended to be used as a general reference document to supplement the training supplied
through one of the 3M approved cabling training courses.
Part I:
Overview of
Generic Structured
Cabling Systems
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The 3M products will meet the requirements of the standards that are applicable to
that 3M product. The following paragraphs give an overview of the different types and
structures of cabling systems.
1.1 Overview
As defined in ISO/IEC 11801 and ANSI/TIA 568, generic cabling comprises three
cabling subsystems: campus backbone, building backbone and horizontal cabling. The
3M Premises Cabling System covers all three subsystems. The figure below shows
the structure of generic cabling, whilst Table 1.1 indicates the terminology differences
between ANS/TIA/-568 and ISO/IEC 11801.
terminal
CP TO equipment
(optional)
CD BD FD
Terminology differences
ISO/IEC 11801 ANS/TIA-568
CD Campus backbone
BD BD BD Building backbone
FD FD FD FD FD
Horizontal
TO TO TO TP TP
TO TO TO TO TO TO
optional cables Collapsed backbone
(Centralized cabling)
optional transition point or Consolidation Point
FD
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Here is the diagram to illustrate the 2 scenarios: Channel and Permanent Link.
Channel
PD
100m maxi
Channel
Permanent Link
CP TO
50m maxi
Permanent Link
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Cable Plant
Date Rate Fibre Max length
Application Designation Standard Loss Budget
Mb/s Type (m)
(dB)
Cable Plant
Date Rate Fibre Max length
Application Designation Standard Loss Budget
Mb/s Type (m)
(dB)
Part II:
3M Copper and Fibre
™
Products Installation
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3M™ Faceplate
Safety is important to everyone, including the people working inside the project site,
cabling team installers and other contractors in the field. The cabling installers must
participate in their company safety programs and follow the local codes for the safety
precaution in the construction site.
There are some tools that can help minimize the risk of injury:
Distance A
Without divider
Aluminum Steel
Type of Installation or non metallic
divider divider
divider A
power
Unscreened power cable
300mm 100mm 50mm cable IT cable
and unscreened IT cable
Unscreened power cable
50mm 20mm 5mm
and screened IT cable
Screened power cable and
30mm 10mm 2mm
unscreened IT cable
Screened power cable and
0mm 0mm 0mm
screened IT cable
There are several types of horizontal pathways including metal trunking, cable trays and
conduit. The cables filling those media will be in different considerations. Table 1.1.2 and
1.1.3 provide recommended capacity of the cable filling in the conduit & metal trunking
respectively.
Trunking Usable capacity 50% fill (mm²) Cat. 6 U/UTP Cat. 6a F/UTP Cat. 7 S/FTP
50x50 1250 44 each 31 each 28 each
40x50 1000 35 each 25 each 22 each
35x40 700 24 each 17 each 15 each
Trunking Usable capacity 40% fill (mm²) Cat. 6 U/UTP Cat. 6a F/UTP Cat. 7 S/FTP
50x50 1000 35 each 25 each 22 each
40x50 800 28 each 20 each 18 each
35x40 560 19 each 14 each 12 each
Trunking Usable capacity 25% fill (mm²) Cat. 6 U/UTP Cat 6a F/UTP Cat. 7 S/FTP
50x50 625 22 each 15 each 14 each
40x50 500 17 each 12 each 11 each
35x40 350 12 each 8 each 7 each
Table 1.1.3 3M Cable fill ratio in trunking
™
As a guide, up to 12 horizontal 3M™ Copper Cables can be pulled at a time. If the route is
short (<30 m) and straight with easy access to the cable path, the cable may be pulled off the
reel and laid into place directly without accessing the strength members.
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It is essential that 3M™ Copper Cable is never subjected to a bend tighter than the
minimum bend radius specification and that the maximum pulling load is never exceeded.
The minimum bend radius varies according to whether the cable is under load (during the
pulling operation should be less than 8 time of diameter of cable) or unloaded (after the
pulling operation should be less than 4 time of the diameter of cable).
Pulling cables through a conduit requires some attention. It is better to avoid the
following happening on the cable:
Care should be taken to ensure that the cable is not damaged or kinked as this could
impair the transmission performance of the cable.
Standards requirement
in termination space
Avoid
>90º
Bend radius 8 times
<90º
the cable diameter
<90º
There are 2 wiring methods to terminate the cable in a 3M RJ45 jack (T568A and
T568B).
There is also a “cross cable” termination with one side of the cable terminated in T568A
method and the other side terminated with T568B method.
However, it is recommended for straight wiring to use either the T568A or T568B
method in both sides of the cable termination.
The below figure shows the difference between the T568A method and T568B method
pair arrangement.
air 3 Pair
Pair 3
1 Pair
Pair 41 Pair 4 Pair 2 Pair 21 Pair
Pair 41 Pair 4
BL = Blue
2 3 41 5
2 6 3 7
4 8 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 41 52 6 3 7
4 8 5 6 BR 7 =8 Brown
G G W-O W-G
BL W-BL
G W-O BL W-BL
O W-BR BR O W-BR BR W-O O W-G W-O
BL W-BL
O W-GG W-BR
BL W-BL
BR G W-BRG = Green
BR
O = Orange
M™ RJ45 Jack3M
T568A
™
RJ45
Wire
Jack
Positions
T568A Wire Positions 3M RJ45 Jack3M
™
T568B
™
RJ45
Wire
Jack
Positions W = White
T568B Wire Positions
There are 2 different kinds of “one-click” 3M RJ45 jacks. One has two entry points and
the other is a three-entry jack.
The two-entry jack is for Cat. 5e performance. The three-entry jacks are available for
Cat. 6 and Cat. 6a performance. Termination of each jack is different. 3M RJ45 jacks
are usually used at both ends of the link. Follow the installation instructions supplied
with jack carefully.
Step 1 Step 2
Insert wires Fold and
trim wires
Step 3 Step 4
Place in Close
connector connector
“Click”
3M RJ45 Jacks will be installed in the The cable will be installed at the back
19" Patch Panels with either 16, 24, 32 or of the panel as shown.
48 ports. The jacks will be secured in the
patch panel as shown.
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Before putting the installed cables inside the cabinet, the cables must be in a neat and
orderly manner. Pay attention to maintain the minimum bend radius of all cables within a
bundle, particularly the cables on the inside or outside arc of the bend. Also, allowing the
cables to lie naturally inside the cable tray and don’t put any forces on them.
It is also recommended to use proper cable managers and normally, those managers are
designed to properly support the in-place cables and relieve tension, as well as to provide
further support for the future cables adding.
The guideline for the minimum bend radius of the unshielded-4 pair patch cords is a 6 mm
inside bend radius, according to BiCSI TDMM 13th Edition.
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Multi-User
Telecommunications Telecommunications
Room Outlet Assembly
Patch cords/
Equipment jumpers Work area cables
cable
Below is the table 1.4.1 illustrates the results of the above formulae assuming that there
is a total of 5m of 24AWG or 4m of 26AWG patch cords and equipment cord in the
telecommunication room.
90 5 10 4 8
85 9 14 7 11
80 13 18 11 15
75 17 22 14 18
70 22 27 17 21
Table 1.4.1 Max length of horizontal cables and work area cords according to ANSI/TIA 568 C -1
Cables supplied for the backbone should have PVC, LS0H or PE jacket. The capacity of
the cable will depend on the traffic expected, with a minimum of 4 fibres. Cables can be
supplied with 4, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 or 96 fibres.
There are 2 types of fibre optics cables, Indoor (tight buffer) and Outdoor (loose type) cables.
The structures of these 2 cables are as follow.
Optical Fibre
Buffer Coating
Aramid Yarn
Outer Coating
Ripcord
Pay attention to the bending radius when we both pull and rest the fibre optic cables so that
the cable is not damaged (see below table from BiCSI TDMM 13th Edition).
The 3M fibre connectors can be used at both ends of the link. Follow the installation
instructions supplied with the connectors carefully.
It is important when terminating the connectors to use the correct tools and maintain
the required bending radius for the fibre cable being stored.
Pay attention on the bending radius of the fibre cable installed inside the panel.
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Rack A Rack B
MPO/MTP Backplane Connections
(pre-terminated cable)
to network to network
hardware hardware
Polarity A the MPO/MTP modules are the same at each end. One side of the patch cord
is flipped.
Polarity B the MPO/MTP modules are different at each end. One side is key down to key
down and the other side is key up to key up.
Part III:
Testing and Systems
Warranty Process
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1.0 Testing
Upon completion of the installation, the horizontal copper cabling system must be tested
in accordance with the procedure described below. The backbone fibre cabling system
shall be tested in accordance with the corresponding standards.
To test the “link” of the cabling, there is a field tester required and the requirement for the
field testers are defined by ISO/IEC 11801:2010:
• Level IIe, supports Class D (100MHz)
• Level III, supports Class E (250MHz)
• Level IIIe, supports Class EA (500MHz)
• Level IV, supports Class F (600MHz)
• Level V, supports Class FA (1000MHz)
The tester MUST go back to the manufacturers or their qualifying labs for calibration
each year.
FD TO
Slave
Master
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Channel
PD
100m maxi
Channel
Permanent Link
CP TO
50m maxi
Permanent Link
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A reversed pair occurs when the polarity of one wire pair is reversed at one end of the
link. Note this is also sometimes referred to as a tip and ring reversal.
3 3 3 3 3 3
5 5 5 5 5 5
7 7 7 7 7 7
9 9 9 9 9 9
As frequency increases, this effect becomes stronger. Each pair is twisted as this allows
opposing fields in the wire pair to cancel each other. The tighter the twist, the more
effective the cancellation, and the higher the data rate supported by the cable.
Incident Signal
Vin
Vrefl
Reflected Signal
1.3.7 Impedance
Impedance is the effective resistance of an electric circuit or component to alternating
current, arising from the combined effects of ohmic resistance and reactance.
Incorrect Impedance mismatches are normally coming from:
• Poor installation techniques
• Incorrect or defective cable and/or components
1.3.9 Capacitance
The ability of an electronic component to store electrical energy is called Capacitance.
For balanced twisted pair cables, capacitance is measured between the 2 wires of a pair.
2.1 Multimode
Field-test instruments for multimode fiber cabling shall meet the requirements
of ANSI/TIA-526-14.
2.2 Singlemode
Field test instruments for single-mode fiber cabling shall meet the requirements
of ANSI/TIA-526-7.
Equipment Equipment
Source: TIA
Example:
-.75 dB -.75 dB
-0.5 dB
Equipment Equipment
Mechanical
Splice
Backbone
.25km
(.87 dB)
Budget: -2.87 dB
2.87 dB .60 dB
Detailed records of the original installation shall be kept and all subsequent changes
documented as and when they are carried out. A computer-based scheme is highly
recommended.
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4.0 Warranty
Communication Markets Division
25-year Cabling System Warranty, Training and
Qualification Process
Warranty Summary
3M warrants that the passive products that comprise the registered cabling system will,
under normal and proper use, conform to 3M’s advertised and published specifications
at the date of purchase and transport data in accordance with the appropriate link
specifications for industry standards in effect at the time of installation for a period of
twenty-five (25) years as follows:
• Copper systems are warranted to meet the Class D/Category 5E, Class E/Category 6,
Class EA/Category 6A performance requirements as defined by EIA/TIA, ISO/IEC or
CENELEC.
• Fibre cabling systems are warranted to meet the link specifications in industry
standards at the time of installation, depending on the type of fibre cable installed
(OM2, OM3, OM4, OS1, OS2) as defined by EIA/TIA, ISO/IEC or CENELEC.
The system warranty is extended by 3M to the end user when 3M Products are
properly installed, tested and registered by a Qualified Integration Professional (QIP) or
Qualified Installer (QI). Note, a Certified Installer Agreement may be needed in cases
where the end user requires an installer other than an authorized QIP. The QIP or QI has
responsibility for proper installation of the system to the guidelines in the 3M’s approved
“Design, Planning and Installation Manual(s)” and/or “Product Installation Instructions.”
Part IV:
Annex – Glossary
and Terminologies
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Note: Product specifications and descriptions in this document are subject to change.
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