Work Area

Primary location where the building occupants interact with dedicated telecommunications equipment.

Design Considerations:
At least one telecommunication outlet box location shall be planned for each work area.
This location should be coordinated with the furniture plan. A power outlet should be nearby. Height coordinated power outlet.
Control center, attendant, and reception areas shall have direct and independent pathways to the serving telecommunications room.
Furniture System Design:
Cable access via walls, columns, ceilings, or floors. Fittings that transition between building and furniture pathways require special planning.
Furniture pathway fill capacity is effectively reduced by furniture corners, and connectors mounted within the furniture pathway systems.
Furniture pathways bend radius shall not force the installed cable to a bend radius of less than 25mm (1 in.).
Furniture spaces designed to house slack storage, consolidation points, or multi-user telecommunications outlet assemblies shall provide space for strain relieving, terminating, and storing slack for the horizontal cables.
Slack storage and furniture pathway fill, shall not affect the bend radius and termination of the cable to the connector.
Furniture pathway openings shall comply with either of two sizes:
Standard NEMA opening (NEMA OS 1, WD-6)
Alternate opening: