Joe, My company has used Intertek Testing Services (Lexington, KY) and Underwriters Laboratories (Northbrook, IL). We have had favorable experience with customer acceptance of NEBS reports from both labs.
UL's Northbrook facility is very well set up for carrying out the firespread test and provides the split view videotapes exactly how Verizon wants them. The lab manager, Bob Backstrom, serves on the ANSI committee involved in updating T1.319 (Equipment Assemblies - Fire Propagation Hazard Testing Procedure), so you can count on expert guidance here. ITS-Testmark in Lexington, KY is well set up for testing telecom equipment. Their chief engineer, Cliff Jones, has also served on ANSI committee T1E1.8 (Physical Protection), and is another good industry technical resource. We have used ITS for most of our recent GR-63 and GR-1089 testing. Regards, Scott Baer -- Scott J. Baer, P.E. Product Compliance Engineer AG Communication Systems A Subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Email ba...@agcs.com Phone 623-581-4139 FAX 623-581-4574 Joe Harris wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the process of trying to find a vendor that will take care of all our > company's NEBS/compliance requirements and want to get feedback-the positives > and the negatives about your experiences with different vendors such as > Curtis-Straus, MET, UL, etc. from some of the experienced members of this > list. > > If you have experience with any of these labs or others and are willing to > discuss their pros/cons, please drop me a note so we can discuss them > offline. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > J >
