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International Standard ISO/IEC 11801‑1 was prepared by subcommittee 25: Interconnection of information technology equipment, of ISO/IEC joint technical committee 1: Information technology.

This first edition, together with ISO/IEC 11801‑2, cancels and replaces ISO/IEC 11801:2002, Amendment 1:2008 and Amendment 2:2010. This edition constitutes a technical revision.

This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:

a) standard re-structured to contain those elements and requirements, that are common to generic cabling systems (in application fields such as offices and industrial premises), namely requirements for common elements of topology and transmission performance of channels, links and related components;
b) addition of balanced cabling channel and link Classes BCT-B, I and II;
c) addition of coaxial cabling channel and link Class BCT-C;
d) addition of balanced cabling component requirements for Categories BCT-B, 8.1 and 8.2;
e) addition of coaxial cabling component requirements for Category BCT-C;
f) addition of cabled optical fibre Categories OS1a and OM5;
g) removal of optical fibre classes;
h) cabled optical fibre Categories OM1, OM2 and OS1 have been moved to an informative annex.

This International Standard has been approved by vote of the member bodies, and the voting results may be obtained from the address given on the second title page.

This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

A list of all parts in the ISO/IEC 11801 series, published under the general title Information technology – Generic cabling for customer premises, can be found on the IEC website.

The contents of the corrigendum of April 2018 have been included in this copy.

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BS ISO/IEC 11801-1:2017

Information technology. Generic cabling for customer premises - General requirements

Published:

31 May 2018

Withdrawn:

14 Dec 2018