BICSI South Pacific’s representative on the Australia New Zealand CT-001 cabling standards committee – Ashley Martin Technical Manager – Au/NZ at CommScope – recently attended a CT-001 Cabling Standards committee meeting and filed the following report for BICSI members:
“As mentioned in previous CT-001 Standards Updates, much work has been going on in the background to hamonise Australia and New Zealand Standards with International Standards when it comes to fibre optic testing.
“On Monday 23 May, 2016, the latest AS/NZS edition of ISO/IEC 14763.3 was released for public comment. I would encourage all BICSI members to download and peruse this document at their leisure. Public comment draft Standards are available for download from www.standards.org.au
“In case you are time poor, below is a brief guide to the major changes that appear in the latest edition of AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14763.3:
- Harmonisation – as listed below, this document now bring AS/NZS back in alignment with all testing methodologies set out in ISO;
- Insertion Loss values for Reference-to-Non Reference connectors have been revised. MMOF values will change from 0.3dB to 0.5dB with SMOF changing from 0.5dB to 0.75dB;
- The inclusion of a channel test method for fibre optic cabling will now help provide assurance of channel performance where required;
- The 3 Test-Reference-Method has been removed because there were issues with this method causing potential apparent gains when testing. As such, a new test method – known as the ‘Enhanced 3 Test-Reference-Method’ now appears. Please note this is NOT the same as the older 3 Test-Reference-Method;
- The introduction of visual inspection as an informative Annex; and
- The introduction of measurement uncertainty values for reference that can be applied to testing.
“As with any Standards update, I am always more than happy to provide more detail to any BICSI member. Please do not hesitate to contact myself or your local BICSI Coordinator for more information.
“I am also more than willing to take comments as anonymous and feed these back into the CT-001-02 Fibre Optic Sub–Committee if members are more comfortable doing this. Public comment closes on July 25, 2016.”