Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network Part 2: Analogue and TDM based technologies As/CA S003.2:2010) 2010 (Cth)
Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network — Part 2: Analogue and TDM based technologies — AS/CA S003.2:2010) 20101
Telecommunications Act 1997
The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Technical Standard under subsection 376 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Dated 27 September 2010
Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member
Brendan Byrne
[signed]
Member / General Manager
Australian Communications and Media Authority
Name of Technical Standard
(1) This Technical Standard is the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network — Part 2: Analogue and TDM based technologies — AS/CA S003.2:2010) 2010.
(2) This Technical Standard may also be cited as the AS/CA S003.2-2010.
Commencement
This Technical Standard commences on the day after it is registered.
Definitions
In this Technical Standard:
Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.
customer access equipment means customer equipment that:
(a) is designed with multiple ports (that are local or network ports) that provide, or are intended to provide, access to a telecommunications network; and
(b) is capable of the switching, storage, processing, conversion, integration, line isolation, coupling or multiplexing of analogue voice, digital voice or voice equivalent communication.
mandatory requirement, for a standard, means a requirement in the standard that uses the words ‘shall’ or ‘shall not’.
port means an interface to equipment that enables:
(a) the supply of an output signal from the equipment; or
(b) the acceptance of an input signal to the equipment.
Note 1 Several other words and expressions used in this Technical Standard have the meaning given by section 7 of the Act. For example:
· customer equipment
· telecommunications network.
Note 2 Subsection 374 (1) of the Act provides that a reference in Part 21 of the Act to a telecommunications network is a reference to a telecommunications network in Australia that is operated by a carrier or carriage service provider.
Objects of Technical Standard
The requirements of this Technical Standard are necessary and convenient to meet the objectives mentioned in paragraphs 376 (2) (a) to (d) of the Act.
Application
This Technical Standard applies to customer access equipment that:
(a) uses either or both of the following to attain a port connection:
(i) an analogue technology;
(ii) a PCM based TDM technology; and
(b) does not use a packet based technology, or have an interface to a packet based network.
Requirement
Customer access equipment must comply with the mandatory requirements in the Australian Standard — Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to a Telecommunications Network — Part 2: Analogue and TDM base technologies (AS/CA S003.2:2010), as published by Communications Alliance Ltd in September 2010.
Note This requirement is in addition to the requirement in section 5 of the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to a Telecommunications Network – Part 1: General – AS/CA S003.1:2010) 2010.
Note
1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See
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