Expand your knowledge and get ahead in the telecommunications industry. This five-day, 40 hour course is the most advanced phase of BICSI’s Telecommunications Cabling Installation Training Program.

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, Codes, and Methodologies

• 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®
• National Fire Protection Code
• BICSI TDMM and NDRM overview

IV. Plans and Specifications

• Blueprints
• Construction specifications

V. Media Characteristics

• Emerging technologies
• Twisted-pair—UTP, ScTP, STP-A (overview)*
• Color code (overview)*
• Categories of cables—3-6 (overview)*
• Coaxial (overview)*
• Optical fiber cables—singlemode and multimode (overview)*

VI. Connectors

• Emerging technologies
• UTP, STP-A, ScTP, coaxial, optical fiber (overview)*
• Connector pin configurations (overview)*
• Color codes (overview)*

VII. Transmission Characteristics

• AC/DC review
• Analog/digital signals
• Cable bandwidth—Megahertz vs. Megabits per second
• Digital signaling

VIII. Grounding, Bonding, and Electrical Protection

• Installation
• Design
• Testing on earth ground

IX. Defining LANs

• LAN characteristics
• Physical and logical topologies
• Ethernet and token-ring

X. Components of a LAN

• OSI model
• LAN hardware and software

XI. Safety

• Hazardous environments
• Personal protective equipment
• Common safety practices

XII. Professionalism

• Communications skills
• Professional appearance

XIII. Preparation for Installation

• Space and pathway design
• Developing a job plan
• Performing a site survey (overview)*
• Building closets (overview)*
• Installing grounding infrastructure (overview)*
• Installing support system infrastructure (overview)*
• Preparing work area outlet locations (overview)*

XIV. Pulling Cable (Overview)*

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

XV. Firestopping

• Responsibilities
• New and existing penetrations

XVI. Cable Termination

• Terminate ScTP, STP-A
• Pretermination functions—forming, dressing, fanning, and labeling cables (overview)*
• Copper cable termination UTP (Krone, BIX, 110, 66) (overview)*
• Copper crimp, coaxial, and optical fiber cable termination (overview)*

XVII. Splicing Cable

• Copper
• Optical fiber

XVIII. Cable Testing

• Copper cable testing and certification
• Optical fiber cable testing using a light source, power meter, and OTDR

XIX. Cable Troubleshooting

• Copper cables
• Optical fiber cables

XX. Retrofits and System Upgrades

• Identifying active circuits
• Performing cutovers
• Removal of abandoned cable

XXI. Miscellaneous Duties

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