EN 50346:2002/A1:2007

Information technology - Cabling installation - Testing of installed cabling

To be read in conjunction with the file EN50346{2002}A1{2007}_XSDfile.xsd, which is an integral element of this standard * CLC/TC 215 confirmation to BT further to D133/032: No overlap between EN 50346:2002 & ISO/IEC 14763-3 (cf BT135/DG7735/DV)

Informationstechnik - Installation von Kommunikationsverkabelung - Prüfen installierter Verkabelung

Technologies de l'information - Installation de câblage - Essai des câblages installés

Informacijska tehnologija - Polaganje kablov - Preskušanje inštaliranih kablov

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 09-Oct-2007
• ICS: 35.110 - Networking
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 215 - Electrotechnical aspects of telecommunication equipment
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC25 - ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC25
• Parallel Committee: ISOIEC/JTC 1/SC25 - ISOIEC_JTC_1/SC25
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Completion Date: 21-Oct-2020
• Ref Project: SIST EN 50346:2003/A1:2008 - Information technology - Cabling installation - Testing of installed cabling

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• Amends: EN 50346:2002 - Information technology - Cabling installation - Testing of installed cabling
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2008
Informacijska tehnologija - Polaganje kablov - Preskušanje inštaliranih kablov
Information technology - Cabling installation - Testing of installed cabling
Informationstechnik - Installation von Kommunikationsverkabelung - Prüfen installierter
Verkabelung
Technologies de l'information - Installation de câblage - Essai des câblages installés
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 50346:2002/A1:2007
ICS:
35.110 Omreževanje Networking
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 50346/A1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
October 2007
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 35.110
English version
Information technology -
Cabling installation -
Testing of installed cabling
Technologies de l'information -  Informationstechnik -
Installation de câblage - Installation von
Essai des câblages installés Kommunikationsverkabelung -
Prüfen installierter Verkabelung

This amendment A1 modifies the European Standard EN 50346:2002; it was approved by CENELEC on
2007-10-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

This amendment exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language
made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the
Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

Central Secretariat: rue de Stassart 35, B - 1050 Brussels

© 2007 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 50346:2002/A1:2007 E

Foreword
This amendment to the European Standard EN 50346:2002 was prepared by the Technical Committee
CENELEC TC 215, Electrotechnical aspects of telecommunication equipment.
The text of the draft was submitted to the formal vote and was approved by CENELEC as amendment A1
to EN 50346:2002 on 2007-10-01.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the amendment has to be
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2008-10-01

– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
(dow) 2010-10-01
with the amendment have to be withdrawn
This amendment has been prepared to reflect optical fibre cabling testing as specified in
ISO/IEC 14763-3; furthermore, it introduces an XML schema to ease the exchange and further
processing of data captured by field test equipment. As an integral element of this standard, an electronic
version of the XML schema is provided in the format of an XSD file.
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Introduction of EN 50346:2002
st
Amend 1 indent following paragraph 2 to read: “- for design - EN 50173 series and …”.
Clause 2
Delete references to EN 61280-4-2, EN 61000-3-4 and EN 61300-3-6.
Add at the end of Clause 2: “ISO/IEC 14763-3, Information technology – Implementation and operation of
customer premises cabling – Part 3: Testing of optical fibre cabling”.
Subclause 4.1.4
Replace 4.1.4 (including Figure 3) by the following:
4.1.4 Reference planes for point-to-point cabling
4.1.4.1 Balanced cabling
The accuracy of the test system is defined at its reference planes. The test configuration reference plane
at each end of a channel is within the equipment cord next to the connection of the equipment cord into
the test equipment (see Figure 3). The test configuration reference plane of a link is within the test cord
next to the test cord connection which mates to the termination point of the link under test (see Figure 3).
4.1.4.2 Optical fibre cabling
The accuracy of the test system is defined at its reference planes. The test configuration reference plane
at each end of a channel is within the equipment cord next to the connection of the equipment cord into
the test cord (see Figure 3). The test configuration reference plane of a link is within the test cord next to
the test cord connection which mates to the termination point of the link under test (see Figure 3).

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b) Link reference planes
Reference planes
(balanced and optical fibre cabling)

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NOTE  The dotted area contains cables and may contain connections and splices/joints.

Figure 3 – Reference planes for links and channels (point-to-point)
Subclause 4.7
Add at the end of 4.7:
Where compliance with a specific value is required the measured result shall be termed a pass, a fail or a
marginal result.
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Clause 6
Replace Clause 6 by the following text and update the list of tables in Contents:
6 Test parameters for optical fibre cabling
6.1 General requirements
This standard applies the requirements of the test methods specified by ISO/IEC 14763-3 to information
technology cabling within the scope of this standard subject to the following:
a) the results shall be compared with relevant limits specified in EN 50173-1 or the applicable
application-specific standard;
b) the additional requirements of this clause shall be applied.
6.2 Channel and link attenuation
6.2.1 Treatment of measured results
6.2.2.1 All-silica optical fibre cabling terminated with connecting hardware having transmission
performance specified in EN 50173-1
See ISO/IEC 14763-3.
6.2.2.2 All-silica optical fibre cabling terminated with connecting hardware having transmission
performance other than that specified in EN 50173-1
The calculation of limits and measurement uncertainty shall take into account the performance of
reference and non-reference connectors provided within the relevant connector standards or
manufacturers’/suppliers’ information.
6.2.2.3 Other optical fibre cabling
The calculation of limits and measurement uncertainty shall take into account the performance of
reference and non-reference connectors provided within the relevant connector standards or
manufacturers’/suppliers’ information.
6.3 Inter-component distance
This standard extends the methods of ISO/IEC 14763-3 used to measure channel and link length to
determine inter-component distances.
Insert a new Clause 7
7 Inspection of optical fibre cabling and installed cabling components
This standard applies the requirements of ISO/IEC 14763-3 to the information technology cabling covered
by this standard.
Annex A
Replace Annex A by the following text and update the list of figures and tables in Contents:
Annex A
(informative)
XML Schema for portable field test equipment
A.1 General
Many types of portable field test equipment use proprietary software in order to view the results obtained.
This annex does not seek to replace such software. However, it may be desirable to view results from a
variety of test equipment using a common platform. Examples of such situations are where:
a) test results from different types of portable field test equipment are to be collated within a single
“database” for the purposes of review and assessment;
b) test results from one or more types of portable field test equipment are to be incorporated within third
party software documentation systems.
It has been common for test result data to be exported as text files (e.g. csv files). However, the level of
integration as described above from a range of text files has required significant additional data
management. In order to reduce the need for additional data treatment and to reflect the growth of web-
based solutions, the most applicable common platform is one that can be viewed with standardised
browser technology.
XML, a recognised data format specified by W3C (www.w3.org/XML/), is the most appropriate data
management solution. This annex defines the minimum data set and the applicable field names, in the
form of XML schema, for the export of data from the proprietary software used by suppliers of portable
field test equipment, or the test equipment itself, when testing cabling installed in accordance with
EN 50174 series of standards against the requirements of the applicable cabling application standard
(e.g. EN 50173-1).
Using the appropriate schema, the data format from a specific test result can be verified, prior to further
data formatting that allows the data to be viewed as HTML files, PDF files or by other XML files.
A.2 XML Schema
The XML file format allows structured data to be exchanged between applications, see Figure A.1.
An XSD file contains a set of rules that define the structure of an XML file. This annex describes an
XSD file (also available electronically) that describes the structure of the XML file format.
An XSLT file can be used to transform a XML file into another format. This is typically used to convert the
XML data into HTML so it can be viewed in a web browser.

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A.3 Data security
Unless appropriate steps are taken, the conversion of data from the native formats used by the suppliers
of portable field test equipment renders the data subject to subsequent modification. Appropriate third
party software such as “XML Signature” may be used to address the issue of data security. This is
outside the scope of this standard.
A.4 XML Schema – Test result envelope
Figure A.2 shows the overall schema design for the XML data format to be used to export test results for
all balanced and optical fibre cabling.

Figure A.2 – Overall schema design for XML data format for EN 50346 test result export

Further details of the elements shown in Figure A.2 are given in Table A.1 to Table A.8.
Table A.1 – Element TestResult
Element TestResult
Schematic
relationship
Children TestSet
CablingUnderTest
TestData
Name Type Use  Default  Fixed  Annotation
a
CreatedBy xs:string required  A file containing a
single test result. Each
b
CreatedByVersion xs:string required
file should be saved
c with a unique name.
CreatedAt xs:dateTime required
The following format is
SchemaVersion xs:string required
recommended:
d
{Manufacturer}-{Tester
CompanyName xs:string optional
Serial No}-{unique
e
OperatorName xs:string optional
sequence
number}.xml.
a
The name of the software that generated this file.
b
The version number of the software that generated this file.
c
The time and date that this file was generated (not the test time).
d
The name of the company performing the test.
e
The name of the person performing the test.

Table A.2 – Element TestResult/TestSet
Element TestResult/TestSet
Schematic
relationship
Children Equipment
Name Type Use  Default  Fixed  Annotation
A description of each
item of equipment
used to perform the
test.
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Table A.3 – Element TestResult/TestSet/Equipment
Element TestResult/TestSet/Equipment
Schematic
relationship
Children TestLead
Name Type Use  Default  Fixed  Annotation
a
Manufacturer xs:string required  A description of the
equipment that was
b
ModelNo xs:string required
used to perform the
c test.
SerialNo xs:strin
...