scope:

This final draft European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) specifies the essential Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) requirements for non-radio equipment used within the public telecommunications network. It covers both the emission and immunity requirements of the equipment.

This ETS is applicable to all equipment types, examples of which are listed below. The test methods to be used are also described together with the failure criteria:

- switching equipment which includes trunk and local telephone exchanges, remote switching concentrators, international switches, telex switches and network packet switches;

- transmission equipment which includes multiplexers, line equipment and repeaters, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), Digital Cross Connect (DXC), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and network terminations;

- power supply equipment which includes central power plant, end of suite power supplies, power management systems and other dedicated telecommunications network power supplies;

- supervisory equipment and dedicated Operation And Maintenance (OAM) equipment;

- tariff and billing equipment.