From: Kevin Richardson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Carrier Equipment requirements
Treggers, Martin's words below are correct but LARGE "exchange" type equipment will still be considered "commercial" equipment by the SMA in Australia and so Class A would apply. Martin's words below surely would apply to smaller telecommunications equipment such as routers/servers and multiplexors normally used in the business environment. Regards, Kevin Martin Garwood wrote: > Richard, > > At the moment in Australia, carrier equipment is exempt from > safety/interworking requirements. This may change after July 1997 with > deregulation, as the new act has a broad definition of who can be a > carrier. The EMC requirements under the EMC framework do however apply > (from 1 Jan 1997) for new equipment. > > A seperate issue that many suppliers may not be aware of, the SMA have > allowed (thru Austel's past practice), residential type CE to only meet > class A for CISPR22. This allowance is until Jan 1 1998. After that > date, new & EQUIPMENT CURRENTLY BEING SOLD must comply with class B, > whether it was 1st sold before Jan 1 1998 or not. BEWARE ! > > Best Regards > > > > > > FROM RICHARD STEELE > > Organization: Digi International > > > > Fellow Treggers, > > > > Jon D Curtis wrote: > > > > > > From: Kevin Richardson <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Standards applicable to transponders & interrogators > > > > > > I do not believe there are any specific international standards concerning > > > rail transportation and associated transponders/receivers. The > > > requirements would therefore be derived from generic standards for safety > > > and EMC concerning similar radio transponders and receivers. > > > > > > This type of scenario in Australia I believe would be handled as follows: > > > Safety would be covered by generic safety standards and in addition "Work > > > Safe" standards. EMC would be covered also by generic standards and the > > > normal requirements under the new EMC Framework in Australia. In addition, > > > for Australia a "Class Licence" for a low power radio transmitter would > > > probably be required. > > > > Does anyone know what the Safety requirements for Exchange based > > telecommunications equipment such as multiplexor switches are in > > Australia/New Zealand? > > > > What are the "generic safety standards" and "work safe standards"? > > > > Regards > > > > Richard Steele > Best regards, Kevin Kevin Richardson Ph: 043-29-4070 Stanimore Pty Limited Fax: 043-28-5639 "The Technology Requirements Specialists" Int'l: +61-43-xx-xxxx Email: Internet: [email protected] Compuserve: 100356,374
