scope:

This European Standard specifies generic cabling that supports a wide range of communications services including automation, process control and monitoring applications for use within industrial premises comprising single or multiple buildings on a campus. It covers balanced cabling and optical fibre cabling. This European Standard is based upon and references the requirements of EN 50173-1. This European Standard contains additional requirements that are appropriate to industrial premises in which the maximum distance over which communications services have to be distributed is 10 000 m. The principles of this European Standard may also be applied to installations that do not fall within this range.