SECTION 1--INTRODUCTION...1-1 1. General...1-1 1.1. Introduction...1-1 1.2. Purpose...1-2 1.3. Application...1-2 1.4. Definitions...1-3 1.5. General Requirements...1-3 1.6. Proprietary Information...1-5 1.7. Ordering Information... 1-5 1.8. Comments On ATT-TP-76400...1-5 SECTION 2 TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT ORDERS (TEOs)...2-1 1. GENERAL...2-1 1.1. Introduction...2-1 2. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SBC LEC equipment engineer...2-1 2.1. General...2-1 2.2. TEO Facesheet...2-1 2.3. Other TEO Information (TEO as defined in definitions Section 1)...2-2 SECTION 3--DETAIL ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS...3-1 1. GENERAL...3-2 1.1. Introduction...3-2 1.2. General Detail Engineering Requirements...3-2 1.3. Contents of Detail Specification...3-2 2. SPECIFICATION COVER SHEET...3-3 2.1. Contents of Cover Sheet...3-3 3. SPECIFICATION forms...3-4 3.1. General...3-4 3.2. General Job Summary...3-4 3.3. General Installation Supplier Notes...3-4 iii
3.4. Work To Be Done By The Installation Supplier... 3-5 3.5. Operation Types... 3-6 3.6. Specific Installation Supplier Notes... 3-7 3.7. Material Listing Notes... 3-8 3.8. Material Listings... 3-9 3.9. Central Office Records... 3-10 3.10. Standard Equipment Drawings... 3-10 3.11. Reference Drawings... 3-10 3.12. Cable Running List... 3-10 3.13. Equipment Inventory Update Form... 3-11 3.14. Inventory Staging... 3-12 4. APPENDICES TO SPECIFICATIONS... 3-12 4.1. Purpose... 3-12 4.2. Appendix Preparation... 3-12 5. SPECIFICATION DISTRIBUTION... 3-13 5.1. General... 3-13 SECTION 4 TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT RECORDS... 4-1 1. INTRODUCTION... 4-2 1.1. General... 4-2 2. NETWORK EQUIPMENT RECORDS DESCRIPTION... 4-2 2.1. General... 4-2 2.2. Record Document Types... 4-3 2.3. Floor Plan Records (FP)... 4-4 2.4. Distributing Frame Records (DP)... 4-4 2.5. Battery Distribution Fuse Board (BDFB) and Secondary Power Distribution Unit (SPDU) Records... 4-6 2.6. Power Board Records (PB)... 4-6 2.7. Front Equipment View Records (FE)... 4-6 2.8. Assignment Records (AR)... 4-6 2.9. Equipment Numbering Plans for Network Equipment Space Equipment... 4-6 2.10. Cable Hole Numbering Plans... 4-7 2.11. Grounding Records... 4-8 2.12 Power Equipment Records... 4-8 2.13 Fuse Bay Equipment Records... 4-8 2.14. AC Service - PDSC Records... 4-8 iv
2.15 Ring, Tone and Cadence Records (Discontinued)...4-9 3. MANUFACTURER AND AT&T EQUIPMENT DRAWINGS...4-9 3.1. General...4-9 4. AT&T TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL/MECHANICAL NETWORK EQUIPMENT SPACE RECORDS...4-9 4.1. General...4-9 5. RECORDS CREATION AND UPDATING...4-9 5.1. General...4-9 5.2. Network Equipment Space Drawing Title Block... 4-10 5.3. Equipment Record Marking Standards... 4-11 5.4. Record Distribution... 4-12 5.5. Updating Floor Plans... 4-12 5.6. Updating Distributing Frame (DF) Records... 4-13 5.7. Updating AC and DC Power Records... 4-14 5.8. Updating Front Equipment View Records... 4-14 5.9. Updating Assignment Records... 4-15 5.10. Updating Switch Records... 4-15 5.11. Voiding Records... 4-15 SECTION 5--EQUIPMENT LAYOUT & EQUIPMENT ENVIROMNETS...5-1 1. GENERAL...5-1 1.1. Introduction...5-1 1.2. Equipment Layout Requirements...5-2 2. EQUIPMENT FRAMES...5-2 2.1. Introduction...5-2 2.2. Equipment Frame Requirements...5-2 3. Collocation...5-7 3.1. General...5-7 SECTION 6--CARRIER COMMUNICATIONS SPACE EQUIPMENT BUILDING ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS...6-1 v
1. introduction... 6-2 1.1. General... 6-2 2. Thermal... 6-2 2.1. General... 6-2 3. Fire Resistance... 6-4 3.1. General... 6-4 4. FIRE AVOIDANCE AND CONTAINMENT... 6-4 4.1. General... 6-4 4.2. Products... 6-4 4.3. Cable Openings... 6-5 4.4. Fuel Containment... 6-5 5. BATTERY ROOM VENTILATION... 6-5 5.1. General... 6-5 6. SEISMIC AND OFFICE VIBRATION... 6-5 6.1. General... 6-5 7. AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS... 6-6 7.1. General... 6-6 8. ILLUMINATION... 6-6 8.1. General... 6-6 8.2. Equipment Lighting... 6-7 8.3. Building Lighting... 6-7 9. EMERGENCY LIGHTING... 6-8 9.1. General... 6-9 SECTION 7 WIRE, CABLE and FIBER REQUIREMENTS... 7-1 1. GENERAL... 7-2 1.1. Introduction... 7-2 1.2. Cable Holes... 7-2 vi
1.3. Cable Routing...7-2 2. SWITCHBOARD CABLING...7-3 2.1. General...7-3 2.2. Common Items...7-3 2.3. Distributing Frames...7-3 2.4. Synchronization Cable...7-3 2.5. Relay Racks... 7-3 3. AC WIRING REQUIREMENTS...7-3 3.1. General...7-3 4. DC POWER CABLE AND WIRE... 7-4 4.1. General... 7-4 5. RIBBON CABLE... 7-4 5.1. General...7-4 6. COAXIAL CABLE... 7-4 6.1. General... 7-4 7. SHIELDED CABLE... 7-4 7.1. General... 7-4 8. WIRE NOT IN SWITCHBOARD CABLE... 7-5 8.1. General... 7-5 8.2. Cross-Connect Wire... 7-5 9. CONNECTIONS...7-6 9.1. DC Circuits... 7-6 9.2. AC Circuits... 7-6 9.3. Coaxial Connections... 7-6 9.4. Corrugated Shielded Cable ( aka. ABAM or 600B)... 7-6 9.5. 710 and Similar Type Connectors... 7-6 9.6. Terminal Type Connectors (#10 AWG and Smaller)...7-6 10. ETHERNET CABLE... 7-7 10.1. Ordering Ethernet Cable... 7-7 11. UNSHIELD TWISTED PAIR (UTP)... 7-7 vii
11.1. General... 7-7 SECTION 8--CABLE RACK, AUXILIARY FRAMING AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS... 8-1 1. CABLE RACK... 8-2 1.1. General... 8-2 1.2. Description and Sizes... 8-3 1.3. Location... 8-4 1.4. Engineering Requirements... 8-4 1.5. Support of Cable Rack... 8-6 1.6. Cabling Under Raise Access Floor... 8-6 2. AUXILIARY FRAMING... 8-6 2.1. General... 8-7 2.2. Support Requirements... 8-7 2.3. Bracing... 8-8 3. ROLLING LADDERS... 8-8 3.1. General... 8-8 3.2. Rolling Ladders - Track Type... 8-9 3.3. Rolling Ladder Track... 8-10 4. CABLE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS... 8-11 4.1. General... 8-11 4.2. Applications... 8-1 4.3. Fiber Optic Cable Distribution Systems... 8-12 4.4. Fiber Protection System (FPS)... 8-13 4.5. Fiber Diversity... 8-15 4.6. FDF Panel Diversity (OSP)... 8-16 5. FRAME AND AISLE LIGHTING - FLUORESCENT... 8-16 5.1. General... 8-16 5.2. Engineering Requirements... 8-17 5.3. Lighting Control... 8-18 5.4. Lamps and Ballast... 8-19 5.5. Lighting Parts... 8-19 viii
SECTION 9--CROSS CONNECT SYSTEMS...9-1 1. GENERAL 9-2 1.1. Introduction...9-2 2. DISTRIBUTING FRAMES (DF)...9-2 2.1. Zoning and Spread Complete...9-2 2.2. Distributing Frame Functions...9-2 3. DISTRIBUSTING FRAME TYPES...9-3 3.1. Conventional Distributing Frames...9-3 4. FRAME BLOCKS...9-3 4.1. General...9-3 4.2. Connector/Connecting Blocks...9-4 4.3. Protected Connectors...9-4 5. MANUAL DIGITAL SIGNAL CROSS-CONNECT (DSX)...9-4 5.1. DSX-1 Considerations...9-4 5.2. Interbay Patch Panels...9-4 5.3. Cross-Aisle Tie Pair Panels & Bridges...9-4 5.4. DSX-1 Cross-Connect Rules...9-4 5.5. DSX-3 Considerations...9-5 6. FIBER DISTRIBUTING FRAMES (FDF)...9-6 6.1. General...9-6 6.2. Satellite Fiber Distributing Frame...9-7 6.3. FDF Applicability...9-7 6.4. Fiber Splitters...9-9 6.5. Optical Terminations and Connectors...9-9 6.6. Attenuaters...9-9 7. Ethernet DISTRIBUTING FRAMES (EDF)...9-9 7.1. General...9-9 7.2. Electrical Ethernet Distributing Frames...9-9 7.3. Electrical EDF Components for the C.O....9-9 ix
SECTION 10--ALARMS... 10-1 1. GENERAL... 10-1 1.1. Introduction... 10-1 1.2. Central Office Switches... 10-2 SECTION 11--SYNCHRONIZATION... 11-1 1. GENERAL... 11-1 1.1. Introduction... 11-1 2. SYNCHRONIZATION REQUIREMENTS... 11-2 2.1. General... 11-2 2.2. Diversity... 11-2 2.3. Engineering Requirements For BITS... 11-3 2.4. Timing Reference Inputs... 11-4 2.5. Power Requirements... 11-4 2.6. Grounding Requirements... 11-5 2.7. Network Elements... 11-5 2.8. Removals... 11-5 SECTION 12--POWER SYSTEMS... 12-1 1. GENERAL... 12-3 1.1. Introduction... 12-3 1.2. Definitions... 12-3 1.3 Working Space... 12-6 2. DC POWER PLANTS... 12-6 2.1. General... 12-6 2.2. Single Power Plant Architecture... 12-7 2.3. Dual Power Plant Architecture... 12-8 2.4. Rectifiers... 12-8 2.5 Batteries... 12-9 2.6 Flooded Lead Acid Batteries... 12-10 2.7 Ni-Cad Batteries... 12-10 2.8 VRLA Batteries... 12-10 x
2.9 Alternative Battery Technologies... 12-11 2.10 Battery Cables... 12-11 2.11 Battery Disconnect... 12-12 2.12 Emergency Power Off (EPO)... 12-13 3. DC Power CONNECTIONS, BUS BAR, AND CABLE... 12-14 3.1. Connections... 12-14 3.2. Bus Bar... 12-15 3.3 Approved Cable... 12-16 3.4 Battery and Battery Return Leads... 12-16 3.5 DC Power Cable Reuse... 12-17 3.6 DC Power Cable Ampacity... 12-17 3.7 Vertical Power Cable Runs... 12-18 3.8 DC Power Cable Color... 12-19 4. DC POWER DISTRIBUTION... 12-19 4.1. Power Distribution Sources... 12-19 4.2 Voltage Drop... 12-23 4.3 Protection Devices... 12-26 5. CONVERTERS (DC / DC)... 12-28 5.1. Introduction... 12-28 5.2 Requirements... 12-28 6. RING, TONE, AND CADENCE PLANTS... 12-28 6.1. General... 12-28 6.2. Ringing Systems... 12-29 6.3. Residual Ringing Plant - Ringing and Tone Distribution... 12-29 7. INVERTERS (DC/AC) and uninterruptable power systems (UPS)... 12-29 7.1. General... 12-29 7.2. Inverter... 12-29 7.3. UPS... 12-29 7.4 UPS Battery Applications... 12-30 8. AC POWER DISTRIBUTION... 12-31 8.1. General... 12-31 8.2. AC Panels... 12-31 8.3. AC Cable and Power Cords... 12-32 8.4 Conduit... 12-33 8.5 Appliance Outlets... 12-34 xi
8.6 Multi-Outlet Power Strips... 12-37 8.7 Branch Circuits... 12-37 8.8 AC Circuit Protection Devices... 12-39 SECTION 13--GROUNDING AND BONDING... 13-1 1. GENERAL... 13-1 1.1. Introduction... 13-1 2. Requirements... 13-1 2.1. AT&T Grounding and Bonding Documentation... 13-1 SECTION 14--OPERATIONS SUPPORT SYSTEMS... 14-1 1. GENERAL... 14-1 1.1. Introduction... 14-1 1.2. Location and Layout... 14-1 1.3. Environmental Controls... 14-2 1.4. Power Requirements... 14-2 1.5. Alarms... 14-4 SECTION 15 CABLE ENTRANCE FACILITY... 15-1 1. GENERAL... 15-1 1.1. Introduction... 15-1 1.2. Requirements All CEFs... 15-1 1.3. Requirements Non-Insulating Joint CEFs... 15-2 1.4. Requirements Insulating Joint CEFS... 15-3 1.5. Interbonding... 15-3 1.6. Fiber Optic Cable... 15-3 SECTION 16 STANDBY ENGINE/ALTERNATORS... 16-1 1. GENERAL... 16-2 xii
1.1. Introduction... 16-2 2. REQUIREMENTS... 16-2 2.1. General... 16-2 2.2. Engine Requirements... 16-2 2.3. Fuel Systems... 16-3 2.4. Exhaust Systems... 16-3 2.5. Starting Systems... 16-3 2.6. Cold Starting Aids... 16-4 2.7. Acoustic Noise... 16-4 2.8. Cooling System... 16-4 2.9. Alternator Technical Requirements... 16-5 2.10. Load Prioritization... 16-6 2.11 Automatic Transfer Switch Systems... 16-6 2.12. Outdoor Enclosures... 16-6 2.13. Safety... 16-6 2.14. Hazardous Voltages... 16-7 2.15. Alarms... 16-7 3. MAIN LINE AC CIRCUIT BREAKERS... 16-7 3.1. General... 16-7 [END OF SECTION] xiii