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Expand your knowledge and get ahead in the telecommunications industry. This is the most advanced phase of BICSI’s Telecommunications Cabling Installation Training Program.

Course Overview

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-A, 569-A, 570-A, 606, 607

•  TIA/EIA TSB 67, 72, 75, 95, 526, and OFSTP 7 and 14

•  National Electrical Code

•  National Fire Protection Code

• • BICSI TDMM and LAN and Internetworking Design Manual 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—3-5+ (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 typologies

•  Ethernet (Thicket, Thinnet, 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T) 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

•  Customer relations

•  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 termination (overview)

XVII. Splicing Cable

• Copper

• Optical fiber

XVIII. Cable Testing

•  Copper cable testing and certification

•  Optical fiber cable testing 

•  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 and as-builts 

•  Coping with changing technologies

Course Fee
$950

Course Materials
You will be provided with a course workbook, notepads, and highlighters. Purchase of BICSI’s Telecommunications Cabling Installation Manual is optional. The manual will not be used in class, but is recommended for students planning to take the examination. If you wear prescription safety glasses, please bring them to class with you.

Credits
30 RCDD hours

Who Should Attend
Highly experienced telecommunications cabling installers

Prerequisites
Five or more years of recent verifiable telecommunications/low-voltage cabling experience. Successful completion of BICSI’s Installer, Level 2 training, exam, and on-the-job training is recommended.

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