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Provides specific guidance to architects, planners, designers, engineers, builders, installers, maintenance personnel, building owners, managers and users in the planning and installation of physical pathways and spaces in and between buildings to accommodate the equipment and cabling infrastructure necessary for communications; to the extent that this is not adequately covered for Australian and New Zealand purposes in AS/NZSISO/IEC 14763.2:2014.

AS/NZS 3084:2017 is amended as follows.

This Standard adopts ISO/IEC 14763-2:2019 with modifications for Australia and New Zealand, which specify requirements for the planning, installation and operation of telecommunications cabling and cabling infrastructures including cabling, pathways, spaces and telecommunications bonds (other than that specified in AS 30129) in support of generic cabling standards and associated documents.

The objective of this Standard specifies generic cabling within premises that comprise single or multiple buildings on a campus; it covers balanced cabling and optical fibre cabling.

This Standard provides safety rules for optical fibre communication systems and associated materials and equipment.

The objective of this Standard specifies requirements that are common to the other parts of the AS/NZS 11801 series or ISO/IEC 11801 series. Cabling specified by this Standard supports a wide range of services including voice, data, and video that may also incorporate the supply of power.

This document is known as the Best Practice Industry Conditions.

This information is intended as a guide only as to the requirement for payment of an insurance premium and cover for loss suffered in respect of different types of building work for contracts entered into on or after 28 October 2016.

Information about your rights and how you can exercise them during the building process.