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Backbone Cabling
The portion of premises telecommunications cabling that provides connections between telecommunications rooms, equipment rooms and entrance facilities. The backbone cabling consists of the transmission media (optical fiber cable), main and intermediate cross-connects, and terminations for the horizontal cross-connect, equipment rooms and entrance facilities. The backbone cabling can further be classified as campus backbone (cabling between buildings) or building backbone (cabling between floors or closets within a building).
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