TIA606A-1: Best practice, better business

The Telecommunications Industry Association TIA606A-1 standard, adopted in 2002, defines a labeling standard that maps each cable in an installation precisely to the floor, telecom room, and patch panel position or block where the cable terminates. The TIA606A-1 standard isn’t mandatory, but more and more building owners, end-users and designers are requiring it and specifying it, and more and more datacom contractors are adopting it as standard practice.

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Investment protection for your customers

For building owners – your customers – TIA606A-1 compliance protects their datacom infrastructure investment in three important ways.

1. Faster, easier, lower-cost troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrades. The TIA606A-1 labeling scheme lets end-users and contractors identify and trace cables, resolve problems, make moves/adds/changes (MACs) and upgrade equipment in less time, with less overhead.The larger the installation, the greater the time and cost savings.
2. Greater assurance of warrantee protection. Increasingly, designers and end-users are specifying TIA606A-1 compliant installation as part of their bid requirements.
3. More flexibility and choice.Adhering to labeling standards creates consistency across large installations and multi-campus layouts, giving building owners the flexibility to work with different contractors over the life of the network.

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More and better work for you

When you adhere to TIA606A-1 labeling standards you deliver this investment protection to customers. As more and more end-users insist on the standard, compliance gives you a distinct competitive advantage over installers who don’t comply – and helps you build a reputation for quality work that can mean you’ll spend less time chasing bids, and more time cherry-picking the customers and projects that can best build your business.