THE ADMINISTRATION STANDARD FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE OF COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Designed to provide a uniform administration scheme for the telecommunications infrastructure that is independent of applications
Intended to reduce the large number of incompatible and incomplete administration approaches in existence Telecommunications Administration Areas:
- Terminations
- Media
- Pathways
- Spaces
- Bonding/grounding
Note: end user equipment at the station or application specific devices in the closet are not addressed 
- Identifiers:
- Designations assigned to elements of the telecommunications infrastructure
- Identifiers used to access records of the same type must be unique
- Encoded identifiers designate the element and provide information about that element
- Records are the collection of information about or related to a specific element
- A typical administration system includes:
- Additional specifications:
- Identical cables spliced together must be administered as a single cable
- Each horizontal cable must be labeled at both ends
- Termination hardware containing one or more termination positions (e.g.: patch panel jack) may be administered as one termination position
- A unique identifier must be assigned to each hardware termination unit
- An identifier must be marked on each termination hardware unit or its label
- Station terminations may be labeled on the faceplate, housing or the connector itself
- Labels can be adhesive, insert or other special purpose labels. Labels must meet legibility, defacement and adhesion requirements specified in UL969 (D16).
demarcation point (Pantone 150C) 
network connections on customer`s side (Pantone 353C) 
common equipment (Pantone 246C)  1st level backbone
 2nd level backbone (Pantone 422C)  horizontal cabling (closet end only) (Pantone 291C)  interbuilding backbone (Pantone 465C)  auxiliary circuits (Pantone 101C)  key telephone systems (Pantone 184C) |
