T568.2-4-05 (R2010)

This is the first edition of CSA T568.2-4, Commercial building telecommunications cabling standard - Part 2: Balanced twisted pair cabling components - Addendum 4 - Solderless connection reliability requirements for copper connecting hardware.

This Standard is an adoption of the identically titled ANSI/TIA/EIA (American National Standards Institute/Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronic Industries Alliance) Standard 568-B.2-4-2002 and is the product of the Telecommunications Industry Association TR-42 Technical Committee, which included a number of Canadian members in order to ensure that Canadian perspectives and requirements were addressed. It is written in SI (metric) units with yard/pound (imperial) units in parentheses.

PURPOSE AND

SCOPE

This Standard specifies reliability requirements for solderless contacts and copper connecting hardware designs that utilize solderless contacts to terminate copper cable insulated conductors.