> Subject: Re: Austel accredited BRI Conformance testing in Europe
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> Dear Karen (and TREG),
>
> I beleive you will not be too sucessful in locating any test
> facilities in Europe or otherwise that have Austel
> accreditation for BRI. This is the main is due to the
> planned changes within the network provisions of BRI from
> Telstra.
> I believe that Telstra are intending to adopt the Euro-ISDN
> implementation of BRI and hence many labs are holding off
> until the timescales for this can be confirmed. The obvious
> implication for any test facility, is a return for the
> investment of both conformance test equipment and the
> resources expended in setting up the test suites and reports
> etc.
>
> As you will appreciate even in Europe each of the networks
> are slightly varying implementations of Euro-ISDN !
> As far as I know the pre-requisite of any network to support
> true Euro-ISDN is that of SS7 (ITU-T Signalling System 7).
>
> I have been monitoring the development of this but have as
> yet not been able to confirm the implementation dates of the
> proposed (Euro) BRI service in Australia.
>
> Is anyone else able to confirm this situation or know of a
> lab already accredited by Austel to test to their existing
> specifications ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Edward Fitzgerald
> European Technology Services - UK
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