Could someone enlighten me on what is meant by "NEBS 2000 requirements"? Is there some sort of standards work going on here?
Thanks, Jim Jim Wiese NEBS Project Manager/Compliance Engineer ADTRAN, INC. 901 Explorer Blvd. P.O. Box 140000 Huntsville, AL 35814-4000 256-963-8431 256-963-8250 fax [email protected] > ---------- > From: Gary McInturff[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:54 AM > To: 'CHRIS WELLBORN'; NEBS Forum; EMC-PSTC Forum > Subject: RE: NEBS 2000 Conferences > > > Both Telecordia and UL are test houses that can deal with > NEBS testing. Telcordia has probably been at it longer than UL and used to > be a part of MA Bell, and then Bell Labs. UL in the last couple of years > has > been putting on NEBS seminars at which all of the RBOC's Bell Atlantic, US > West, SWB, and all of the others were panelist. UL hosted it and > Telecordia > was in the crowd with the rest of us. During these seminars if anyone was > to > take a more stringent interpretation or to add requirements not in the > NEBS > documents that tended to be Bell Atlantic. > The timing of these two seminars sounds a whole lot political to me, > and that may be much more interesting than who hosts the conference. In > particular when you consider that the NEBS 2000 requirements have been a > bit > of a political football, with Bell Atlantic in particular not wanting > manufacturing input into the standard. The stated reason was they felt it > would slow the process down. Certainly, a possibility but I would > encourage > you to draw you own conclusions. > If there isn't something else afoot here then I would point out that > I would much rather be in Las Vegas in October than Baltimore. > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CHRIS WELLBORN [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:01 AM > To: NEBS Forum; EMC-PSTC Forum > Subject: NEBS 2000 Conferences > > > I would just like to share some information that I obtained > this morning > concerning the above conferences. > > Telcordia and Bell Atlantic will be hosting the NEBS > conference in Baltimore > on October 4-5, 2000. The preliminary agenda and key > speakers are shown at > the following website: > > http://www.800teachme.com/nebsagenda.html > > Underwriters Laboratories and US West will be hosting a NEBS > 2000 conference > in Las Vegas on October 4-6, 2000. The preliminary agenda > and key speakers > will be provided on their website in the near future. I was > informed that > Michael Bentley from US West will be one of the chairmen for > this > conference. > > Which one should you attend? > > Future details will be available at both the Telcordia and > UL websites. > > Chris Wellborn > Regulatory Compliance Engineer > ADTRAN > Voice: (256) 963-8906 > > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > Michael Garretson: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > Michael Garretson: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > >
