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
> 
> 
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