scope:

This standard covers the minimum equipment handling, transportation vibration, and rail car shock criteria for network telecommunications equipment.

This standard defines criteria for equipment handling, transportation vibration and rail car shock environments, after which the equipment must operate and be free from mechanical damage. For vendors that require other industry standards, see Annex A for application of those test methods.

The expectation is that equipment will continue to function properly and without any unexpected degradation of performance once subjected to the identified stresses and criteria.

Purpose

Currently, the telecommunications industry is using many different standards to verify compliance of the equipment. These include but are not limited to Telcordia Generic Requirements, European Telecommunication Standards Institute specifications and Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards. This standard takes into consideration the environments, as well as the various standards and documents mentioned in Table 3, and develops a sequence of tests. This methodology will provide end users a way of validating compliance in a more efficient and comprehensive manner.

The purpose of this standard is to provide the service providers, end-users, manufacturers, test labs, etc. a means of testing network telecommunications equipment and its shipping containers/packaging to the minimum equipment handling, transportation vibration and rail car shock stresses encountered in normal deployment. This standard also provides the test methodologies and test report criteria necessary for proper evaluation by interested parties, and those intending to deploy equipment.

Application

This standard applies to network equipment intended to be installed and utilized by service providers, end-users, manufacturers, etc.

This standard applies to equipment deployed in telecommunication networks that is expected to meet currently established baseline criteria (see Section 3). The criteria within the normative section of this standard is a combination of existing criteria defined in various telecommunications specifications brought together to harmonize, where possible, and minimize repetitive testing. These are the baseline requirements for all telecommunications equipment.

The criteria within Annex A is a combination of existing criteria defined in various international and generic shipping specifications brought together to harmonize, where possible, and minimize repetitive testing. These criteria, when compared to the criteria in the normative portion of this standard are hierarchical in nature whereby equipment tested to Annex A, by default is considered compliant to the criteria in the normative portion of the standard. Annex A may apply to equipment deployed in telecommunication networks that may be exposed to shipping environments that require more comprehensive criteria (see Section 3 and Annex A).