scope:

This guide specification covers exterior cabling requirements for fiber optic (FO) media and pathway systems to support Navy Communications systems at Navy shore installations including piers and permanently constructed buildings. This specification covers outside plant (OSP) campus media for supporting Information Technology Transfer systems to include voice, data, video, imaging, security, and audio systems used by various Navy platforms. Navy designs shall provide a minimum of 12 fibers plus 25 percent spare capacity service to each facility. Pier projects shall provide a minimum of 16 fibers plus 25 percent spare capacity to pier enclosures. Shore to ship media may be government furnished umbilical assemblies with pre-installed connectors to mate with shore receptacle stations. Navy systems for interconnection to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) networks must be compatible with MIL-STD-188-176. This guide specification is to be used in the preparation of project construction specifications.