DIN EN 60603-7:2010-05

The IEC 60603-7 standard series covers 8-way shielded and unshielded free and fixed connectors and specifies the common dimensions, mechanical and electrical characteristics and the environmental conditions, tests and transmission characteristics for the different frequencies. In many cases they are used in cabling systems specified in ISO/IEC 11801. The parameters for the transmission characteristics include for instance insertion loss, near end crosstalk (NEXT), far end crosstalk (FEXT) and return loss. The connectors specified in the different parts of the IEC 60603-7 standard series are intermateable, interoperable and backward compatible, which means that the fixed and the free connector of a certain part of the standard series shall be intermateable with every connector of the series IEC 60603-7 and meet all the requirements of the IEC 60603-7 standard series with lower frequencies. At DIN and VDE the responsible Subcommittee is UK 651.2 "Steckverbinder für elektronische Anwendungen" ("Connectors for electronic applications") of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies).