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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Open cabling work refers to: | aerial and underground cabling work on private and public property customer cabling that terminates directly at the network boundary on a socket, network termination device (NTD)or a distributor. |
Regulatory environment refers to: | accredited registrars and registrationACMACertified Components ListCommunications Alliancelabelling requirementsTelecommunications Act 1997. |
Cabling environment may refer to: | indoor environments, including concealed locations:ceilings and false ceilingsinternal wall spacemodular workstationsunder flooroutdoor environments, including cable installations:aerial telecommunications cabling for restricted cabling work but does not include installations on poles shared with low voltage (LV) or high voltage (HV) electrical power cables or terminationsexternal wallsunderground cabling in an exclusive trench or shared trench with electrical LV cables and other utilities. |
Cable type may include: | aerialcoaxialcopper twisted pairdata cables:Category 5, 6, 6A, 7 or 7Aexternalindooroptic fibre cableunderground. |
Cable identification refers to: | cable conductor identification codes:bandedcolour codedletterednumbered. |
Termination systems may include: | jumperable distributor (campus distributor or building distributor)non-jumperable distributor (local distributor) and a patch panel. |
Earthing and protection may include: | earthing of screened cable, barriers and cable trays for the reduction or elimination of interference from electromagnetic, radio frequency (RF) and power sourcesequi-potential bonding conductors to multiple earth neutral (MEN) and use of earth stakesfunctional earths, including (TRC) and (CES) types to provide customer switching system facilities protective earth barriers for segregation, cable tray, duct and metal equipment enclosuresprotective earths for over-voltage and surge or spike suppression according to AS/ACIF S009:2006. |
Records may include: | building, cabling and equipment location planslabelling of:distributor pairsdistributor verticalsequipment closets NTD record cards patch panelsroomstelecommunication outletsrecord books and cards:campus distributors (CD)building distributors (BD)floor distributors (FD)local distributors (LD)TCA forms (TCA1 andTCA2). |
Relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards may include: | accredited registrars and registrationAustralian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) standards and codes ACMA technical standards AS/ACIF S008:2006 AS/ACIF S009:2006AS/NZS 3000:2007cabling security codes and regulationsCertified Components List (CCL)labellingOverview Telecommunications Act 1997AS Communications Cabling Manual (CCM) -Open. |
Building infrastructure may include: | availability and suitability of existing cabling trays and fixing systemsbuilding hazardselevated working HV powerrestricted access. |
Cabling may include: | aerial customer external customer indoor customer underground customer. |
Strategies to manage other infrastructure may include: | appropriate separationscorrect use of cable trays and support systemsfastening techniques. |
Safety hazards may refer to: | access points that may contain:hazardous light or non-visible laserRF emissionelectrical supply and areas of earth potential rise (EPR) that require mandatory separation from communications cablehazardous conduit as according to AS 1345:1995 conduit colours associated with a hazardous service. |
Cable support structures may include: | cable ducts may be closed or opencable trays may be:galvanised steel or PVCperforated with low or high sidesingle or multi channelline polespits and pipessuspension catenary wirewall and island mounted patched and jumperable distributors:BDCDFDLD. |
Termination may include: | Australian modular socketEthernet connectors terminated at both ends of an Ethernet cable jumperable distributor (campus distributor or building distributor) with a capacity of 100 pair or greater Mode 3 alarm socket NTDnon-jumperable distributor (local distributor) and a terminated patch panelUnited States modular socket. |
Separations refer to: | correct separations between communications cable and other services:LVHV single coreHV multi-coreopen terminationsseparations covered by AS/ACIF S009:2006. |
Installation details may include: | cable infrastructure cable location and type. |
Cabling details may include: | interconnectionspair locationspair numbering and labelling. |