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Information technology - Cabling system installation
Part 3: Installation planning and practices outside buildings

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions, abbreviations and symbols

3.1 Definitions
3.2 Abbreviations

4 Safety requirements

4.1 Prerequisite
4.2 Protection against electric shock
4.3 Protection from induced voltages due to proximity of high voltage cables
4.4 Fire and chemical
4.5 Explosive gases
4.6 Optical fibre hazard
4.7 Mechanical hazard
4.8 Separaton requirements for metallic cabling
4.9 Closures

5 General installation practices for metallic and optical fibre cabling

5.1 General
5.2 General precautions
5.3 Pre-installation practices
5.4 Preparation of cable route
5.5 Cabling practices
5.6 Cable management systems
5.7 Temporary labelling
5.8 Installation of closures
5.9 Segregation of services
5.10 Entrance facilities for power and information technology cabling
5.11 Information technology cabling interconnections between buildings
5.12 Poles and pole sharing
5.13 -Aerial-underground junction
5.14 Protection against lightning and proximity of lightning rods

6 Additional general for specific sites and services

6.1 Hospitals
6.2 Airports
6.3 Nuclear areas
6.4 Explosive areas
6.5 Chemical manufacture/areas/plants
6.6 Tunnels, including pedestrian, rail, automobile, and their associated services
6.7 Waterways, including rivers, canals, streams natural or ducted / channelled etc.
6.8 Railways, subway / metro
6.9 Corrosion

7 Additional installation practice for metallic cabling

7.1 EMC-considerations
7.2 Balanced transmission
7.3 Screening
7.4 Mains and high voltage power distribution systems (above 1000 V)
7.5 Protection against very low frequency fields
7.6 Electrical isolation components
7.7 Surge protective devices
7.8 Protection against lightning
7.9 Protection against electrostativ discharge (ESD)
7.10 Corrosion
7.11 Buildings against each other
7.12 Buildings linked by a metallic bridge
7.13 Building separated entirely
7.14 Proximity to earthing systems
7.15 Protection against radars, broadcast emittors

8 Additional installation practices for optical fibre cabling

8.1 General
8.2 Pre-installation procedures
8.3 Optical fibre cable practices
8.4 Final assembly of closures
8.5 Termination practices
8.6 Jointing/termination of optical fibres
8.7 Optical fibre management
8.8 Buildings against each other
8.9 Buildings linked by a metallic bridge
8.10 Building separated entirely

Annex A (Informative): ROEP

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