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| Requirements

- Horizontal and backbone building cables shall be terminated on connecting hardware that meets the requirements of ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2 and ANSI/TIA/EIA-B.3.
- All connections between horizontal and backbone cables shall be cross-connections.
- Equipment cables/cords that consolidate several ports on a single connector shall be terminated on dedicated connecting hardware.

> NOTE - Centralized optical fiber cabling is designed as an alternative to the optical cross-connect located in the telecommunications room, when deploying recognized optical fiber cable in the horizontal in support of centralized electronics.

- Equipment cables/cords that extend a single port appearance may either be permanently terminated or interconnected directly to horizontal or backbone terminations. ·
- Direct interconnections reduce the number of connections in a link, but may also reduce flexibility.

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