Codes Exist to Ensure Safety, Quality and Performance
What We Do
CCCA works through, and contributes to, technical committees in standards bodies such as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Telecommunications Industries Association (TIA).
Please consult these and other organizations for codes and standards relevant to communications cable and connectivity products. CCCA does not issue, ratify or publish codes and standards for these products, nor does CCCA certify compliance of products to industry accepted codes and standards.
What We Focus On
Safety
Our members collaborate with standards organizations to make products safer and codes clearer.
Some of our recent activities
CCCA Article: Revisions to cable requirements in the 2023 NEC®
- NFPA 70 NEC® / 90A / 75 etc. Code & Standards Revision Contributions
- 2023 NEC® Public Inputs by CCCA
Power over Ethernet (PoE) safety reviews and collaboration amongst industry manufacturers
Quality
Our members work together to advise codes and standards that ensure product quality
Some of our recent activities
- NFPA 70 NEC® / 90A / 75 etc. Code & Standards Revision Contributions
- 2023 NEC® Public Inputs by CCCA
Power over Ethernet (PoE) safety reviews and collaboration amongst industry manufacturers
Performance
As some of the most advanced connectivity manufacturers on earth, our members work with industry organizations that define performance standards.
Some of our recent activities
- NFPA 70 NEC® / 90A / 75 etc. Code & Standards Revision Contributions
- 2023 NEC® Public Inputs by CCCA
Power over Ethernet (PoE) safety reviews and collaboration amongst industry manufacturers
Topic Resources
CCCA Provides the industry with a wide variety of resources to educate and inform. From videos to articles to white papers, we encourage everyone interacting with cable and connectivity to refer to these resources when making buying or installation decisions.
Articles and Resources
What to Specify When Buying Safe, Performing Patch Cords
As we have reported previously, over 80% of patch cords surveyed in the market, primarily from off-shore suppliers, failed to meet the performance specifications of ANSI/TIA-568-C.2. In these tests, almost half of the non-compliant samples failed 568-C.2 requirements by at [...]
Case Study: Learning from an Encounter with Counterfeit Cable
Case Study Learning from an Encounter with Counterfeit Cable Over the past six years, one computer educator and IT coordinator for a small K-8 elementary school, had been pushing for the school to upgrade its aging category 5 cabling [...]
Local Area Network (LAN) Cable Performance Testing for Patch Cords
Performance Verification for Category 5e, 6 & 6A Patch Cords In addition to UL’s Channel and Permanent Link performance testing, UL offers Patch Cord performance (verification) testing. Patch Cord performance is critical to the quality of system performance and data [...]
Counterfeit Communications Cable Fire Test Video
CCCA conducted fire tests at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), comparing counterfeit communications cable to compliant cable. This video briefly introduces the problem of counterfeit cable and shows the actual fire test and the spectacular results. View the other [...]
Raising the Bar on Patch Cord Performance in the Real World
This paper examines patch cord field performance problems relating to the 8-pin modular connector and cable assembly construction in general. Applicable standards such as ANSI/TIA-1096, IEC 60603-7, and IEC 60512-99-001 are reviewed. Compliance and verification issues and how they relate [...]