Get a head start on your competition with BICSI’s comprehensive orientation to the telecommunications industry. This intensive five-day, 40-hour course is designed to provide entry level telecommunications cabling installers with the background, knowledge, and basic skills needed to function effectively on the job.

I. Industry Orientation
II. Structured Premises Cabling Systems

• Entrance facilities, backbone, horizontal, work areas
• Equipment rooms, telecommunications rooms
• Cross-connects—main, intermediate, horizontal

III. Standards

• ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B, 569-B, 570-A, 606-A, 607-A
• ANSI/NECA/BICSI-568
• ANSI/TIA/EIA-526-7 and 14-A
• National Electrical Code®

IV. Plans and Specifications (Overview)

• Blueprints
• Construction specifications

V. Media Characteristics (Overview)

• Twisted-pair (UTP, ScTP)
• Color code
• Categories of cables (3-6)
• Coaxial
• Optical fiber cables (singlemode and multimode)

VI. Connectors

• UTP, ScTP, coaxial, optical fiber
• Connector pin configurations
• Color codes

VII. Transmission Characteristics (Basic)

• AC/DC review
• Analog/digital signals
• Copper cable media
• Optical fiber media

VIII. Grounding, Bonding, and Electrical Protection

• Basic Design
• Installation

IX. Safety

• OSHA
• Common safety practices
• Personal protective equipment
• Hazardous environments

X. Professionalism (Overview)

• Customer relations
• Communications skills
• Professional appearance

XI. Preparation for Installation

• Building telecommunications rooms
• Installing grounding infrastructure
• Installing support system infrastructure
• Preparing work area outlet locations

XII. Pulling Cable

• Pulling backbone and horizontal twisted-pair cable
• Pulling optical fiber cable

XIII. Firestopping

• Responsibilities
• Systems
• New and existing penetrations
  

XIV. Cable Termination

• Pre-termination functions (forming, dressing, fanning, and labeling cables)
• Copper cable termination (UTP [Krone, BIX, 110, 66])
• Copper crimp termination
• Coaxial cable termination

XV. Cable Splicing (Overview)

• Copper
• Optical Fiber

XVI. Cable Testing

• Copper cable testing using entry level tests (VOM and continuity testers)
• Overview of optical fiber cable testing

XVII. Cable Troubleshooting (Overview)

• Copper cables
• Optical fiber cables

XVIII. Retrofits and System Upgrades

• Overview — identifying active circuits
• Overview — performing cutovers
• Removal of abandoned cable

XIX. Miscellaneous Duties (Overview)

• Administrative tasks
• Documenting test results
• Documenting as-builts
• Coping with changing technologies