RE: Job Opportunity: Software Availability / Reliability Engine er

We have a potential Req for a seasoned Software Reliability Engineer with an VERY STRONG emphasis on large telecom carrier networks. ( ILEC's) Only experienced SW Reliability engineers with a proven track record will be considered. CIENA Career Opportunities We create breakthrough optical

Translations: Chinese to English

Group, Can you recommend a company or individual who is competent ( and reasonable $$$ ) in translating technical documents from Mandarin Chinese into English. I'm also seeking someone capable of translating technical documents from English to Portuguese or Mandarin Chinese to Portuguese.

Switzerland Compliance Homologation Requirements

Hi Group, Does anyone have any current information on telecom requirements in Switzerland? Mine is a little out dated. Specifically I'm looking into: * CO gear requirements * Network Access permits or licenses * Networking gear requirements with residential line access On a side note: Does

RE: Harsh Chemical Environments

Rich, What kind of equipment does your company design? I've used and found SEMI S2 as an excellent design guideline for many applications including harsh chemicals. In addition to SEMI S2, there are several other design guidelines they've published that cover many topics. SEMI was developed

China MII China's Recent Government Overhaul

Group, Any info /comments on how this will affect MII approvals in the short term /long term? We've anticipated this change for quite sometime now and believed MII would be disbanded and a new organization under the State Information Committee would emerge. See link attached below for the

New countries that will accept the CE Mark

Group, Does anyone have any recent updates on the following countries legislation to accept the CE mark? If/when this is complete, will the CE mark have equal weight as their national mark? * Bulgaria * Czech Republic * Hungary * Romania * Slovakia * Slovenia * Poland * Turkey

RE: Brazil Telecom Homologations

Group, Are you aware of any changes in Brazil telecom requirements effective in August of 2003, that will require: Conducted Emissions on the Telecom ports ? I'm currently using Res. 237 Nov 2002 for Cat-3 Equipment. ( EMC emissions and Conducted emissions on the Pwr Line) Also, can anyone

RE: Korea Telecom Requirements

Group, What is your take on homologating non- PSTN telecom gear into Korea. While we are aware testing is normally required to transpire in Korea: * What tests are required - EMC, Immunity, Safety, NAL .( Network Access License) * I've heard there is a lab in Canada and a lab in Southern CA.

RE: Country Homologation Requirements for .......

Group, I'm looking for your opinion on telecommunication requirements for the following countries. Specifically, this is in reference to the following types of telecom gear: -48VDC, No PSTN connection, normally found in Central Office locations As this information seems to be vague or

RE: India Compliance

Rich, You will definitely run into some nuances when deploying your products into India. While on the surface it may appear the regulations are straight forward, however when actually communicating with the authorities you will begin to uncover the bureaucracy and will be at a distinct

Ciena Job Opening, CM Analyst- San Jose CA.

Group, Not directly an EMC or Safety position but in this position you will work with all of engineering including Compliance. Please forward all emails to me directly. No phone calls please. Regards, Jeffrey Collins Sr. HW Engineering Manager Corporate Compliance Homologation CIENA

Type Approval in China for Telecom Equipment

Group, Has anyone had experiences with Type Approvals for telecom equipment in China? I'm specifically looking for laws which spell out what type of Telecom products require it and what types are exempt. I received a request from our sales in China that the government agency for telecom

Ivory Coast ITE Compliance Requirements

Group, Anyone familiar with Compliance requirements to deploy ITE into the Ivory Coast? I've done some research and found that France, Nigeria, China, Italy, and Germany in that order are their biggest import partners. With France leading the way I would assume that meeting the NF ( French

Taiwan Access for Experiments or Lab Trials

Group, Anyone have experience or knowledge of gaining access into Taiwan for experimental purposes to prove functionality or for laboratory trials? We are looking for temporary access prior to completing BSMI approvals. My previous experiences with Taiwan required proof of certification to even

Homologation Software

Does Anyone know of a company that makes SW that tracks homologation requirements by country? Thanks, Jeffrey Collins Sr. HW Engineering Manager EMC/ NEBS/ Safety/ Reliability CIENA Core Switching Division 10480 Ridgeview Court, Cupertino, CA. 95014 (408) 366-4806, Fax (408) 366-4866

NEBS Question: GR-63 Equivalent

Hi Group, Is anyone familiar with CEPT T/TR02-03 ? It is supposed to be equivalent to Bellcore Specification NEBS TR-NWT-63 (GR-63 Core) Of course this is a customer request issue. Thanks in advance Happy Holidays ! Jeffrey Collins Engineering Manager / Lead Engineer EMC/ NEBS/

EPA Hazardous Materials Lithium Batteries disposal

Group, I've got two general questions regarding hazardous material: 1). Any experience with identifying materials defined as hazardous by the EPA? (Is there a list somewhere??) My customer is interested in steps that should be taken to: * Avoid exposure * Avoid injury * Proper disposal

RE: Compliance Global list information

Here are the CE and CB scheme countries segregated by EFTA, EEA, EU membership: Jeffrey Collins MTS, Principal Compliance Engineer Ciena Core Switching Division jcoll...@ciena.com www.ciena.com The following is a list of CB countries: Austria Australia Belgium Canada - China Czech R. Denmark

Have I baffled the Product Safety Technical Committee?????

... -Original Message- From: Collins, Jeffrey Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:52 PM To: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: UL Class 2 Flammability Ratings Correlation Group, Is anyone knowledgeable on how a UL Class 2 Flammability rating correlates with a UL 94-V? or HB rating? I have

UL Class 2 Flammability Ratings Correlation

Group, Is anyone knowledgeable on how a UL Class 2 Flammability rating correlates with a UL 94-V? or HB rating? I have seen the Class 2 flammability ratings on air filters. I have a Telecom product that is being designed not only for UL-1950 certification but will meet the Bellcore GR-63

Homologations: Hong Kong / China Central Office Telecom Equipment

Group, Any experiences with getting Central Office Telecom equipment (ITE) into Hong Kong and China? CB Scheme to IEC 60950 should address product safety. What about EMC? Has the Great Wall Mark (China's version of CE Mark) been implemented? What about environmental management issues Who

HiPot Testing: Voltage Ramp vs. Zero Crossing

HiPot Experts, There are several options/settings available when performing the HiPot test. My recent experience shows significant variances in complying by using HiPot testers that use Zero Crossing or Voltage Ramping, or by varying the voltage ramp timing. What is your experience /

NEBS: GR-63 Altitude Test Profile

Group, GR-63 sections 4.1.35.1 do not give a definitive testing profile for Altitude testing. If you have completed this test what profile did you use? Is there a customer specification from an RBOC or CLEC that you found to be definitive. It appears that by only addressing these sections

NEBS: Trans\Vib ISTA standards (International Safe Transit Asso ciation)

Group, In addition to my NEBS GR-63 Transportation Vibration certification, I am also handling meeting a Manufacturing Quality Engineering Spec called ISTA (International Safe Transit Association). Has anyone had any experience with ISTA? Has anyone tried combining the most stringent

RE: EMC, NEBS NRTL's

Group, Can anyone confirm that the RBOC's, particularly Bell Atlantic has agreed to accept EMC FCC data from non NRTL's? If this is true please provide any documentation to support this. (You know a customer is going to want to see it) Thanks in advance, Jeffrey Collins MTS, Principal

Need: 1GHz - 20 GHz Comb Generator

Group, Are you using or can you recommend a reliable Comb generator in this frequency range??? BTW: I will shortly need one that can go up to 50 GHz, but the 1-20 Gig is my immediate need. Thanks in advance, Jeff Collins MTS, Compliance Engineer Ciena Core Switching Division - This

Phone Number for Mike King

Does anyone have a phone number or email address for Mike King. I worked with him some years ago when I was at Tandem Computers but I have lost his number. Thanks in advance, Jeff Collins Ciena CSD (Formerly Lightera Networks) MTS, Compliance Engineering jcoll...@ciena.com - This

50 GHz EMC testing

Group, I will need to perform radiated emissions testing up to 50 GHz in the February early March time frame. I am looking for a facility in the Bay Area that can test to this requirement. Please pass on any one (even if they are not in the bay area) that you can recommend that is capable of

RE: Fire Enclosure Construction

Group, Any experience with UL1950 4.4.6 (Fire Enclosure Construction) For Central Office, RBOC's, Telecom equipment Stationary equipment intended for use in a Restricted Access Location and to be mounted on concrete floor or other noncombustible surface need not be provided with a bottom

EMC Chamber Relocation

Hello Group, We are considering relocating our 3 meter EMC chamber. Can you: * Recommend a company that is proficient at this and will work in the Bay Area ( San Jose / San Francisco CA) * Give estimated costs * Share things to watch out for * Things you would do different the next

Looking for Brent Pahl, Compliance Engineer

I'm looking for a former colleague. His last known employment was Dynarc in Sunnyvale CA. ( Our last contact was about 11 months ago ) If you know how to contact him please forward this to him. Thanks, Jeffrey Collins Sr. HW Engineering Manager EMC/ NEBS/ Safety/ Reliability CIENA Core

China MII Type Approval Recommendations

Hello Members, Can anyone recommend a company, consultant, or other entity they have used or are currently using to obtain MII Type approval for China? Please briefly describe what qualities about this organization makes you give them a positive recommendation. Thanks in advance, Jeffrey

Job Opportunity: International Traffic Manager

CIENA Career Opportunity We create breakthrough optical networks. So can you, when you work at CIENA As the leader in intelligent optical networking, we're all about delivering market leadership to our customers. We see ourselves as their partners. Our advanced optical solutions slash the costs

Effects of having current on the Main Isle Ground Chassis Groun d

Group, We have a customer that has 25A of current flowing on their main isle ground in their CO which will connect to our systems chassis ground. Now I'll wait a minute to allow you to time to pick your jaw up off the floor. :o) We're all in agreement that this is not a normal environment but

NEBS, Raised Floor Substructure Standards

Group, For those of you that attended the NEBS conference, I brought this topic up and was not able to get clear direction from the expert panel. My concern is, several of the RBOC's are deploying raised floors in their CO's. It appears there is not a consensus amongst them on the design of

SBC NEBS Customer Checklist

Hi Group, Can anyone confirm that the latest revision of the SBC Power Grounding, Environmental and Physical Design Requirements is TP76200MP, May 2001. Thanks in advance, Jeffrey Collins Sr. HW Engineering Manager EMC/ NEBS/ Reliability/ Safety CIENA Core

China MII Approval Experts

Group, Fact: You must be a Chinese registered company to sell telecom products in China. Question: Does a company need, to officially be a Chinese registered company prior to submitting the application to MII? If so, when can they file the application? Can you start testing your product at an

RE: IEC 60707 v UL 94 flammability ratings

Hi Constantin, I would also find this information helpful for future reference. Could you fax this over to me also? Thanks in advance, Jeffrey Collins Sr. HW Engineering Manager EMC/ NEBS/ Safety/ Reliability CIENA Core Switching Division 10480 Ridgeview Court, Cupertino, CA. 95014 (408)

GR 63 Temp / Humidity Chamber: Wanted

Group, I'm looking for a new/used Walk-in Temp / Humidity chamber that can perform in the ranges of the operational temp/humidity testing under GR-63 Core. ( Section 4.1.2) Ideally, this chamber should also be able to perform in the ranges of the GR-63 storage temp tests. ( 4.1.1) The

( More) Laser Safety Questions

Hello Group, There was a lot of good dialog recently regarding laser safety. Thanks to all that participated Questions: Who enforces the FDA CDRH 1040.1 laser safety standards in the US? How is it enforced? What are the penalties for noncompliance? Who enforces the IEC or EN 60825

RE: BSMI Test Data Expiration

Hello Group, I am researching an issue with the BSMI standards regarding Information Technology equipment. Does anyone know how long the test data is valid before you can't submit it to BSMI for certification? Be advised our test data was taken with the appropriate limits, documentation and at a

Lasers in Fiber Optic Comm Networks

Group, And yet another laser question. How would one certify/classify Optical Gear in Europe Only where the transceiver may very well be a class 1 laser, but because you multiplex multiple channels before launching on the line coming out of the CO, your aggregate power can be significantly

Job Opportunity: Lead Availability / Reliability Engineer

CIENA Career Opportunities We create breakthrough optical networks. So can you, when you work at CIENA. As the leader in intelligent optical networking, we're all about delivering market leadership to our customers. We see ourselves as their partners. Our advanced optical solutions slash the

RE: SEMI - EN standards cross reference

, Cupertino, CA. 95014 (408) 366-4806, Fax (408) 366-4866 jcoll...@ciena.com http://www.ciena.com -Original Message- From: john.freudenb...@teradyne.com [mailto:john.freudenb...@teradyne.com] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:41 AM To: wmccaffe...@npeurope.com; Collins, Jeffrey; 'Nick Williams

RE: SEMI - EN standards cross reference

Nick, What EN's did your product meet? EN 1010, EN60204 and EN292-1 2 are the closest relevant spec's I've used which relate to SEMI S2. You may want to look at the Machinery Directive, Low Voltage Directive and the EMAS Voluntary Directive ( Environmental Management and Audit Scheme) for