From: [email protected] Subject: Australian approvals for ISDN To all treg members,
After all the discussion on the network between Martin and myself I decided to discuss the ISDN approval requirments with AUSTEl. The information presented here is preliminary and very sketchy. Austel will be presenting this at the workshop in Austrlia next week. It is my understanding that effective July 1, 1997 that Spectrum Management and Austel will merge and become ACA or something like that. Effective at that time telecom approvals, in the current form, will no longer be required. The product will need to be labeled? and will be subject to AUDITS. This means that the equipment must be compliant to the appropriate standards for the network to which it is attached. In other words if the equipment is to be connected to Onramp it must be compliant with the new EuroISDN version and if it is connected to the older Australian networks such as microlink it must be compliant with the appliciable TS. I was not able to get any information on laboratory accreditaion under the new program, audit frequency or methods or how this would be enforced. Thanks Martin for bringing some awareness to the impending changes. I will provide more info as it becomes available, and maybe others that attend the workshop will do likewise. Best Regards Bill Holz Simcom Int'l
