John- Actually, GR-1089 starts at 60 Hz (magnetic field) and 10 kHz (electric field and conducted tests). Penny Robbins Telcordia Technologies
John Juhasz <jjuh...@fiberoptions.com> on 03/17/2000 08:23:25 AM Please respond to John Juhasz <jjuh...@fiberoptions.com> To: "'Collins, Jeffrey'" <jcoll...@ciena.com>, "'emc-p...@ieee.org'" <emc-p...@ieee.org> cc: (bcc: Penny D. Robbins/Telcordia) Subject: RE: EMC, NEBS & NRTL's You have to be careful here Jeff. The frequency range for evaluation to GR-1089 starts at 150kHz and goes up to 10 GHz. The FCC Part 15 testing range is from 30MHz-1.0GHz. The GR-1089 spec also contains Immunity requirements. Further, the objective is to meet the spec with all covers, panels, doors off/open which is not typically done during FCC testing. Additionally, look at it from this perspective: If an RBOC is going to be reviewing proposals, if there are two similar products competing, they will choose the one that meets the details of the NEBS spec, than the one that took steps to 'look like' they meet NEBS, even if the product costs more. The RBOCs are a different breed than the usual commercial customer. John Juhasz Fiber Options Bohemia, NY -----Original Message----- From: Collins, Jeffrey [mailto:jcoll...@ciena.com] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 4:57 AM To: 'emc-p...@ieee.org' Subject: 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 Compliance Engineer Ciena Core Switching Division jcoll...@ciena.com www.ciena.com ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.orgTitle: RE: EMC, NEBS & NRTL's
You have to be careful here Jeff. The frequency range for evaluation to GR-1089 starts at 150kHz and goes up to 10 GHz. The FCC Part 15 testing range is from 30MHz-1.0GHz.
The GR-1089 spec also contains Immunity requirements.
Further, the objective is to meet the spec with all covers, panels, doors off/open which is
not typically done during FCC testing.
Additionally, look at it from this perspective: If an RBOC is going to be reviewing
proposals, if there are two similar products competing, they will choose the one that
meets the details of the NEBS spec, than the one that took steps to 'look like' they meet NEBS,
even if the product costs more.
The RBOCs are a different breed than the usual commercial customer.
John Juhasz
Fiber Options
Bohemia, NY
-----Original Message-----
From: Collins, Jeffrey [mailto:jcoll...@ciena.com]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 4:57 AM
To: 'emc-p...@ieee.org'
Subject: 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 Compliance Engineer
Ciena Core Switching Division
jcoll...@ciena.com
www.ciena.com
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