EIA/TIA

 Electronic Industries Alliance/Telecommunications Industry Association 

This law attempts to standardise the creation of cables. The EIA was disbanded in 2011 however the TIA has continued the work of standardisation to this day. In the mid 1990s, methods for creating cables were developed by the EIA/TIA to develop a universal cabling system that would support multi-vendor products. The cables covered in the laws are fibre-optic cables, shielded twisted pair (STP) cable and unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable. The TIA/EIA 568 is a standard for structured cabling designing, building and managing. It states that systems must be built in blocks – each of which has specific performance characteristics to create a unified communication system. The TIA also provides other regulations such as: 

    • TIA-942 – Standards for data centres 
    • TIA-568 – For voice, video, and data networks 
    • TIA-569 – For telecommunications pathways and spaces 
    • TIA-598 – Fibre-optic cable colour coding 
    • TIA-222 – Standard for antennas 
    • TIA-602 – For common basic Hayes command set 
    • TIA-102 – Land mobile communications for public safety 

The TIA also provides regulations around ethernet cabling quality standards. This will increase the number of high quality ethernet cables on the market and less faulty cables being sold. The 10BASE-T allows for CAT3 cabling or better; 100BASE-T requires high quality CAT5 cabling; 1000BASE-T requires even higher quality CAT5 cabling. 

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