Dear Cynthia, In most cases this would be considered an upgrade. I would suggest that in many cases a retest for noise and balance would be appropriate. Some jurisdictions such as Japan have rules governing upgrades to higher speeds or different protocols which in part deal with whether or not such a service is available. Korea is also very strict on the issue of product registration In addition how the upgrade is implemented is also dealt with. In the case of Australia I think you also would have to document and test this. EMI may have to be rechecked if the upgrade could potentially create different effects. I have experienced this effect in software upgrades on highly populated boards in some but not all instances.
In a number of jurisdictions if you are now going to mark and declare a modem as V.90 as opposed to X2 or 56K this is a variation since the approval records would not indicate this. Standard practice in most marketing departmens isto present this as a new enhanced model. The best way to approach this is to draw up a table indicating how the V.90 product is being implemented in terms of physical change, chipset change, software change, firmware change, downloadable upgrade for those in service now, model number and/or part number change, marketing approach and compare this to the approval records of the model being upgraded. This should allow you to derive the issues that you have to address with each regulator. I hope this helps you out. Yours truly, G. Rae Dulmage, B. Comm., President-TelApprove Services Corporation 1+613 257 3015 Jon D Curtis wrote: > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Modem question > > I just getting started in the modem approval realm so bear > with me if I ask elementary questions. > > When you get an approval with a certain speed modem > (ie 56K) and then wish to upgrade the modem to a > higher speed (ie V90) do the agencies consider this > a new product or simply an upgrade?? Does it require > the manufacture to redo all the approval testing?? > > Thanks > Cynthia
