Matt, I have experienced this and it depends on how bad the RBOC wants your product. It also depends on the RBOC. In SBC and Verizon contracts, if your product doesn't meet the requirements, you have to bring it up to compliance at your own expense. One "exception" I've seen is for the Heat Dissipation Objective. If you don't meet this, then the RBOC has to make space for your product - something they do not like to do.
No RBOC is going to tell us that they have exceptions, they want us to design our products to meet all of GR-63-CORE (and GR-1089-CORE plus others). This is especially true for new telecom equipment vendors - we really don't have any excuse for not meeting all of the requirements - we are, after all, designing the product from scratch. Considering the money that RBOCs will spend on new equipment ($billions), it makes financial sense for us to give them what they want. The big telecom equipment vendors have a lot of legacy equipment that doesn't meet all of the requirements; they possible use this as leverage when their "newer" equipment doesn't comply. Newer companies do not have this luxury. Be real careful going down this path and remember that the customer is always right. Best regards, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kilkenny [mailto:mkilke...@opthos.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:47 PM To: 'nebs@world.std.com' Subject: RE: NEBS & RBOCs Has anyone ever seen or experienced a product sold to a RBOC that never passed all the GR-63 requirements? If so, what are the exceptions and why. Thanks in advance. Matt Kilkenny mkilke...@opthos.com
