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table of contents

About GR Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Telcordia GR Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Notice of Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Reproduction Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

To Order Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

This Month’s Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Telcordia® Network Engineer

Digest Plus (Advertisement) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Invitations to Fund & Participate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Summary of Current Invitations to Fund & Participate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Telcordia Legal Conditions Common to All Invitations to Fund and Participate . . . . . . . . . 14

2004 GR Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Notices to the Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Telcordia Professional Installation Methods and Power and Protection Re-Certification Program 34

Completed Distributable Technical Analysis Report Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Telcordia Quality Registration Services™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Tradeshows and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Special Savings Coupon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Recent Document Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Generic Requirements Documents and Nonproprietary Special Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

“Documents Plus” Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Telcordia Families of Documents (FDs) and Families of Requirements (FRs) . . . . . . . . . . 51

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about GR documents

The Telcordia GR Process

Generic Requirements documents (GRs) provide the Telcordia Technologies, Inc. view of proposed generic criteria for telecommunications equipment, systems, or services considering a wide variety of factors, including interoperability, network integrity, funding client expressed needs, and other inputs.The Telcordia Technologies GR process implements the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“the Act”) directives relative to the development of industry-wide generic requirements relating to telecommunications equipment. Pursuant to the Act, Telcordia invites members of the industry to fund and participate in the development process of such GR documents. Invitations to Fund and Participate are issued in the Digest of Technical Information, and are posted on the Telcordia Web site at (www.telcordia.com/digest).At the conclusion of a GR project, Telcordia publishes the GR (GR-CORE). The purchase price entitles the buyer to automatically receive the GR (GR-CORE) along with any Issues List Report(s) (GR-ILR) and Revision(s), if any are released under that GR project, until that GR is completely republished. An ILR will contain relative technical issues that arose during the development of the GR on which Telcordia would like further input from the Industry. The ILR may present issues for discussion, with or without proposed resolutions, and will also communicate resolutions that lead to changes to the GR.Telcordia may also solicit general industry nonproprietary comments regarding such GR material, at the time of its publication or through subsequent Industry Interaction notices appearing in the Telcordia Digest. While unsolicited comments are welcome, any subsequent work effort by Telcordia regarding such comments will depend on funding support for such work. Telcordia acknowledges receipt of comments and will let the submitter know their status.Older Telcordia generic requirements documents that are still in Technical Reference (TR) form may continue to have Revisions published. As appropriate, Telcordia will convert these older TRs to GRs. If such conversions require substantive changes, Telcordia will work those changes in accordance with the GR process.For more information about Telcordia Generic Requirements projects currently under development, and for proposed future GR work projects, visit the Generic Requirements page on the Telcordia Web site at www.telcordia.com.

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this month’s feature

Telcordia® Network Engineer. . . . Do More — With Less

As network complexity grows, competition intensifies, and

operational budgets continue to feel the squeeze, the need to

optimize business processes and operations through

technology becomes a mission-critical priority. It's not

enough to simply keep a network operating smoothly

anymore — consolidated network management and data

flow are needed to make the network more efficient, to

deliver more services, and to increase profitability.

Previously, telecommunications service providers were focused on expansion — the strategy was to provision excess capacity in advance of demand. With increasing competition and corporate emphasis on cost controls, the current motivation for a service provider is optimization — increasing the effectiveness of network management and data flow to increase operational efficiency, and delivering the optimal choice of services more cost-effectively. Leveraging a service provider’s existing infrastructure to deliver multiple services and serve more subscribers involves partnering with other service providers and managing networks that span a spectrum of technologies and equipment vendors. The role of telecommunications companies is thus expanding to include the operations of multiple suppliers and multiple networks. The challenge becomes universal — how do companies operate interna-tionally, how do they provide for adequate and reliable supply, what IT investments are necessary to change the way providers retain customers?

Today's next-generation-communications service providers require a reliable, supporting infrastructure to be competitive, profitable, and responsive to customers’ needs — not just today but also for analyzing tomorrow’s events. The ability of a provider to integrate its infrastructure and application tools determines how well information about their networks is acquired, utilized, managed, and retained. Information from multiple systems needs to be made available to all affected departments within the company for effective and timely decision-making.

Telcordia Provides aGeospatial Solution

Telcordia® Network Engineer, part of the new Telcordia® Elementive™ Portfolio discussed in last month's issue, provides an open, integratable, and scalable geospatial environment in which service providers can visually manage and plan their networks.

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Network Engineer documents and designs an end-to-end model of all network elements that facilitates seamless data integration between systems on the network, including provisioning and service assurance systems. With Network Engineer acting as the central repository, all components within an Operations Support System (OSS) environment can collaborate by sharing network inventory data. It provides a sophisticated geodatabase that houses all network and physical inventory information, giving service providers a centralized repository for seamless, real-time, flowthrough network and service provisioning, allowing them to maximize network resources, improve customer service, increase data flow, and achieve operational efficiency.

Benefits of NetworkEngineer

Additional benefits of Network Engineer include the following:

• Beyond tracking current network inventory, it also allows for historical and planned network views, thus supporting other key functions, including procurement, planning, provisioning, engineering, operations, workforce management, and service assurance.

• The intelligent, fully customizable system makes it easy to document both inside and outside plant equipment, creating an end-to-end model of the entire network infrastructure.

• Within a graphical environment, Network Engineer displays the model against detailed, land-based features and customer information.

• It is designed with a unified data model and open industry standards to allow for tailoring of the application to meet specific business operations requirements.

• With powerful communication tools, it has a data-centric foundation that supports integration with other systems. It streamlines daily business processes by allowing multiple users to access its data simultaneously.

• The built-in work order manager makes it easy to query the stored inventory database, analyze virtually any network element, and publish detailed reports.

Engineer More Effectivelywith Intelligent GIS

Capabilities

As described above, Network Engineer is a geospatial network management solution – providing an open, integratable geospatial environment for the comprehensive design and management of the network and associated inventory. With a Geographic Information System (GIS) basis, Network Engineer manages customers and facilities with a spatial representation.

Network Engineer extends the ESRI® ArcGIS™ technology, a family of integrated software products that form a complete GIS built on industry standards for geographic data creation, management, integration, and analysis. Together, Telcordia and ESRI bring innovative GIS-based engineering solutions that document, design, and maintain the physical network infrastructure.



An illustration of an OSS Workflow using Network Engineer is depicted below.

Fiber-To-The-PremisesSupport

Just announced last month, Telcordia® Network Engineer now fully supports Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology. FTTP support will allow service providers to efficiently manage their existing high-speed broadband network and support the communications technologies essential to extending fiber-optic cabling and equipment to homes and businesses.

“The leading service providers are expected to deploy FTTP technology early next year, bringing consumers almost unlimited bandwidth and an array of emerging new services. Network Engineer with FTTP support will help carriers lower their initial network build-out costs and overall operational expenditures by addressing next generation network planning,” said Tom Counts, President of MESA Solutions, a Telcordia subsidiary. “With a focus on long-term customer relationships, our priority is to deliver products that help support and optimize our customers' investment in their service delivery networks.”

Get Better Tools for MorePowerful Networks

Network Engineer provides everything needed to geospatially manage a network, from planning to ongoing management. You've read the overview, let's take a more detailed look at what it provides:

tSpatiallyEnabledDatabase



• Intelligent, GIS-Based Data Modeling, whose individual map features have built-in relationship and behavior intelligence – matching real-world conditions. One can overlay and query complex network data on a land base, access property records, display street and other infrastructure information, and view aerial photography of any service area.

• Network Documentation, for better data flowthrough and improved operational efficiency. Critical network data is documented and geographically linked, giving an accurate map of the physical network (including both inside and outside plant facilities). This data is immediately available to procurement, provisioning, service assurance, fault management, and workforce management systems.

• Network Planning and Management, which utilizes accurate, real-time views of network resources, allowing one to fully comprehend their physical network. Through attribute, spatial, or thematic queries, network planners can visualize existing capacity and available bandwidth, better manage network growth, analyze demographics, and locate customers and/or equipment. With both upstream and downstream network traces, network planners can identify the total network length, attenuation loss, fault location, as well as all the connected facilities along the path of a network. It all adds up to more comprehensive, timely, and accurate network information and analysis, which in turn allows for better network management and improved customer service.

• Network Design, which supports network engineering capacity expansion projects for both inside and outside plant equipment. Powerful network design features include a standardized telecommunications data model, intelligent design and placement features, model building tools for the creation of network models, map production, and work order processing capabilities.

• Full-Circuit Documentation, including design and definition, supporting an end-to-end communications network at both the logical level and the physical level. Network Engineer lets one define the circuit path either from a customer to a switch or between ports, and locate all physical inventory along the logical route. This complete circuit documentation enables geospatial and physical inventory data to be associated with the most logical entities for integration with provisioning systems.

• Connectivity Management, via the GIS platform and easy-to-use graphical user interface. One can manage connectivity and service area views at the equipment level, giving high-quality pictures of access, service, transmission, and radio networks. Network Engineer allows one to create and maintain connectivity at the database level, helping to manage complement, port, and strand connectivity from the customer service point to the central office and network operation center.



Automate Work OrderManagement

Network Engineer increases productivity by automating processes. It allows one to configure the transitions, status, and overall workflow within the work order system, according to the needs of specific engineers. All data modifications are managed through the process, which allows multiple views of the network — including as-built or future build-out plans. Network Engineer also provides for complex version management, allowing multiple users to simulta-neously display and edit geographical data. It supports the full power of the ESRI® ArcMap™ management tools and complex hierarchical version trees (versions of versions), utilizing a relationship class to manage work orders-to-versions.

Get Complete ISP and OSPManagement

The Inside Plant (ISP) management feature of Network Engineer documents and associates inventory with a network structure, allowing one to maximize all available resources. Using a graphical editor, one can manage available floor space, rack footprint, equipment-to-rack relationships, and card-to-equipment-slot relationships. Also provided is Model Selector, a tool for creating and maintaining saved model palettes of equipment for selection and placement of an active model. This tool increases design produc-tivity (drag and drop designs) and helps to ensure adherence to company standard designs.

The Outside Plant (OSP) management feature enables documen-tation, placement, and editing of connected network inventory through the GIS, including network spans, structures, transmedia (wireline, mobility, IT environments, fiber, copper, and coaxial cable), and equipment. All network elements and related structures can be placed in connected networks of transmedia, which are recorded in a work order for utilization by construction personnel.

Move to Open Systems Network Engineer is built on an open information framework that incorporates standards-based integration technologies such as COM, Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation, Java™ Messaging Service (JMS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). The framework is a comprehensive realization of New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) core principles, which Telcordia has been helping to shape since the inception of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) NGOSS initiative. Simply put, our extensible open information framework enables introduction of other Telcordia and non-Telcordia products, network resources, and service elements without costly integration.

A Case Study: RelianceInfocomm – Telcordia®

Network Engineer inProduction

By implementing a nationwide, world-class broadband communi-cations infrastructure, Reliance Infocomm, a division of Reliance Industries, is restructuring India’s communication’s landscape.

Reliance has built a comprehensive network covering the majority of the country’s population – from the largest cosmopolitan city in Maharashtra to the remote villages in the province of Orissa. The



network consists of a complete nationwide, digital state-of-the art infrastructure, replete with international gateways for global connections, and representing all areas of telecommunication, data management, networking, hosting, and applications.

Planning tools are vital when it comes to modeling and managing a new network. Reliance selected the Network Engineer application for its GIS-based solution to create, document, display, and manage a definitive fiber network model of all network elements – displayed against landbase features and customer information – as Network Engineer operates as a scalable, enterprise-wide information system, relying on client/server and transaction concepts to offer enterprise level access to both geospatial and descriptive data.

According to Milind Deshpande, General Manager, Reliance Infocomm, “In the midst of planning, implementing, and operating new telecom services, Reliance felt this was the ideal opportunity to implement a complete GIS – such as Network Engineer – since the technology can be leveraged at each step of the project, from planning to construction and operation.”

Designed to cost effectively address the needs of the evolving communications industry, through intelligent mapping, spatial analysis, network facility management, and centralized data storage, the Network Engineer management of Reliance’s end-to-end fiber and copper network includes:

• Geospatial database design

• Fiber, copper, coaxial, and wireless network management

• Strand mapping

• Fiber route mapping

• Network documentation

• Work order management

• Outside and inside plant management

• Connectivity tracing

• Complete Bill of Materials

• Expansion analysis

• Up-to-date printed maps at any scale

• User-defined reports

• User-defined queries and analysis

• Landbase development

• As-built mapping.

Tightly integrated systems enable the transfer of data from the GIS to the OSS. The GIS acts as the design and documentation application for the OSS, providing the detailed physical network inventory, and enabling data flow to downstream provisioning and service assurance systems. A Network Engineer/OSS interface, developed by MESA Solutions, synchronizes inventory on both systems. MESA Solutions provides geospatial network management consulting, systems integration, and products to the communi-cations, utilities, transportation, and public sector markets.



Reliance’s sophisticated network requires the OSS to manage activities such as ordering and tracking of network components. The facilities data that is transferred from the Network Engineer database provides relevant information on additions, modifications, and removal of equipment, chassis, plugins, ports, and network connectivity data.

Thus, Network Engineer – which manages the detailed physical network inventory, becomes the point of origin for critical information. Users now have instant access to existing plant records to support updates, maintenance, and repairs to the network – via the open Network Engineer database. Reliance is now equipped with a flow-through OSS.

Enjoy a SmoothImplementation and

Ongoing Support

Telcordia provides extensive support from implementation to continued operational consulting. Through MESA Solutions, we stand ready to help maximize network resources as you define your overall business objectives, operational procedures, and workforce responsibilities. MESA offers a wide range of services for your geospatial investments, including GIS consulting, project management, systems implementation and integration, legacy system migration, custom application development, and expertise on ESRI’s ArcGIS technology. All of which provides the resources you need to keep your network operating at its peak.

Contact Telcordia To DoMore With Less

Learn more about how Network Engineer can help you consolidate your network management functions, while giving you a clear, comprehensive picture of your entire network, thus helping you achieve more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective network operations. Contact Telcordia for more information on Network Engineer, or for more details on Network Engineer in production at Reliance Infocomm.

Contact: Susan Coe, Marketing Manager

MESA Solutions

+ 1.256.864.3053 [email protected]

Network Engineer is just one component of Elementive OSS, the new

generation of open, configurable software from Telcordia. Individual

components integrate easily within multivendor environments,

providing the flexibility to address your needs your way. And with a

standards-based architecture, Elementive OSS offers lower up-front

investments and reduced total cost of ownership.

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Network Engineer


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invitations to fund & participate

Summary of Current Invitations to Fund & Participate

Document, Etc. Telcordia Contact Response Date Date(s) in Digest

New GR — GR-3111-CORE, Issue 1, Generic Requirements for Products Used in the Outside Plant with High-Speed Data Circuits, Telephony Category 3 and Category 5 Applications

Ernie Gallo

+ 1.973.829.4638

December 31, 2003 November – December 2003

GR-909-CORE, Issue 2, Generic Criteria for Fiber in the Loop Systems

Rob Bond

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December 15, 2003 October – December 2003

Wireless Engineering/Installation Technical Advisory Group (W-E/I TAG) Forum

And

New GR, Equipment Installation Requirements for Wireless Switch and Cell Site Facilities

Larry Puccio+ 1.732.699.3791

OR

Jeff Christensen+ 1.732.699.5520

December 15, 2003 May – December 2003

The detailed and descriptive 2004 Telcordia GR Forecast is now available!

Please CLICK HERE to view the Forecast as it appears in the just-published, 4Q03 issue of the Digest Plus. (This version of the Forecast is more detailed and descriptive than

the table included in this issue of the monthly Digest.)

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Telcordia Legal Conditions Common to All Invitations to Fund and Participate in the Development of Proposed Generic Requirements Set Forth in the Digest In accordance with Section 273 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the Act) relating to the development of industry-wide generic requirements, for the development of each generic requirements work project that meets the criteria defined in the Act, Telcordia will publish a notice that eitherA. Invites industry to a workshop to discuss the interest level in one or more potential generic

requirements projects before proceeding publicly to invite the industry to fund and participate in such projects, or

B. Invites interested members of the industry to fund and participate in planned generic requirements work without first convening such a workshop.

The following conditions are to be read as if included, in full, in each Invitation to Fund and Participate set forth in the Digest. They are presented here rather than in the specific Invitations presented in this Section of the Digest to avoid redundancy. Of course, contractual terms and conditions are set forth in the respective Generic Requirements Participation Agreements and attachments that will be made available to potential funders.1. If sufficient interest and funding are attained, Telcordia will establish for the funders a

Telcordia Technical Forum to perform the generic requirements work as described in the GR Work Statement. Additional interactions with funders may be via letters, conference calls, faxes, and electronic mail, and may also include group meetings.

2. Funding participants will have the opportunity to: provide nonproprietary technical input to be considered in the requirements development; comment on the draft text; and work towards the resolution of any technical disputes. Funding participants will receive the GR document, and any Revision and/or Issues List Reports (ILRs), if produced under the respective project. Funding participants will also be entitled to exercise other rights and undertake responsibilities as provided by the applicable agreements with Telcordia and by law.

3. Non-funders ordinarily will not have the opportunity to submit questions or to provide comments on any of the draft text prior to the publication of the GR at the completion of the project.

4. Telcordia reserves the right to alter or withdraw the proposal if there is insufficient interest in the invitation that is open to all interested parties including network equipment suppliers, telecommunications service providers, and any other interested members of the industry.

5. Telcordia does not make procurement decisions for its clients.



The GR below was included in the 4Q03 issue of the Digest Plus, 2004 GR Forecast edition; therefore a description is provided below.

New GR — GR-3111-CORE, Generic Requirements for Products Used in the Outside Plant with High-Speed Data Circuits, Telephony Category 3 and Category 5 Applications

Telcordia proposes to write a new GR document that will address copper products used in the outside plant with high-speed data circuits such as DSL. Currently, the industry uses the Category 3 and 5 requirements for the Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronic Industries Alliance (TIA/EIA) 568A standard. The TIA/EIA document addresses a Local Area Network (LAN) environment and is not meant to cover a telephony application such as the products used in the outside plant. Telcordia proposes development of Telephony Category 3 and 5 application requirements that will be better suited to a telecom environment. In addition to development of these proposed requirements, it is anticipated that much of the funding group effort will be focused on defining appropriate detailed test methods and procedures that are better suited to a telephony application.

Pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, related to the development of industry-wide generic requirements, Telcordia invites all interested industry members to fund and participate in the development of this proposed new GR document. If your company is interested in funding and participating in this project, or for more information, please contact Telcordia.

Contact: Ernie GalloTelcordia Technologies, Inc.445 South StreetRoom MCC-1J-120GMorristown, NJ 07960

Phone: + 1.973.829.4638

+ 1.973.829.5866 (FAX)

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Contact By: December 31, 2003

Project Start Date: January 2004

Estimated Completion: June 2004

Participation Fee: $7,500

Conditions: Please read the legal conditions on page 14.




GR-909-CORE, Issue 2, Generic Criteria for Fiber in the Loop Systems

GR-909-CORE-based Fiber-in-the-Loop (FITL) systems have been widely deployed by a number of Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) over the last decade. While initially focused on providing narrowband telephony services, these systems have been gradually upgraded to address broadband services, especially residential Internet access service.

The benefits of an all-optical network extending directly to customer premises have long been discussed, but the economics of such an access architecture have been elusive. Recent advances in optical and optoelectronic component technology have helped reduce the per-subscriber costs of these systems. This, together with the potential operational cost savings of a passive optical network (PON) has generated renewed interest by LECs in Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) access systems.

Telcordia is proposing the development of Issue 2 of GR-909-CORE to address recent advances in optical access technology and integrated access technology (i.e., integrated service delivery using packet transport). It is anticipated that the proposed new issue of GR-909-CORE will consider revisions of FITL system and operations criteria for improved support of Passive Optical Networking (PON) [point to multipoint] FTTP architectures. Issue 2 of GR-909-CORE will provide the framework to allow both G.983-based (ATM) PONs and IEEE 802.ah based PONs. New FITL system and operations criteria in support of packet voice transport will also be considered. System and management criteria for improved support of xDSL drop technology may also be considered.

The specific issues to be addressed in the reissue of GR-909-CORE will be decided by the funding participants, but may include:

• Additional Criteria in Support of FTTP Systems – This may include a review of the optical transmitter and receiver criteria in support of emerging FTTP systems and the FITL criteria impacts of customer located Optical Network Units (ONUs).

• Packet Transport Criteria – System and management criteria related to maintaining quality of service for voice, video, and data services on a packet-based FITL system (capacity management, queue management, service prioritization, etc.) may be considered.

• Powering – GR-909 powering criteria impacts of supporting lifeline voice service, secondary line voice service, data, and video services may be considered.

• Packet Voice Service Delivery – Existing GR-909-CORE criteria do not address the need to deliver voice-grade access circuits over broadband packet access interfaces. System performance (packet loss, delay, etc.), transmission metrics, and management criteria (voice quality monitoring and fault management) may be considered in support of packet voice services. This will build on the criteria published by Telcordia in GR-3109-CORE and GR-3110-CORE (Packet Voice IDLC), applying them directly to FITL network elements and more fully considering softswitch network



criteria (e.g., signaling aggregation, conference bridging support, etc.).

• High-Speed Data Service Delivery – Existing GR-909-CORE criteria do not address the support of high-speed data service (e.g., Internet access). Telcordia proposes the specification of new generic requirements to address this application, including Quality of Service (QoS) support and FITL system-to-network interfaces.

• Broadband Drop Support – Existing GR-909-CORE criteria do not address the use of xDSL technology in the drop from the ONU to the customer. Additional system and management criteria may be considered to address this application (e.g., transmission line rate and reach, delay, xDSL spectral compatibility, and performance [cell loss, jitter tolerance, etc.]).

Pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, related to the development of generic requirements, Telcordia invites all interested industry members to fund and participate in the development of GR-909-CORE, Issue 2. If your company is

interested in participating in this activity, or for more

information, please contact Telcordia.

If Interested, Contact: Rob Bond

www.telcordia.com/solutions/integrated-access/gr/Telcordia Technologies, Inc.445 South StreetRoom MCC-1J112GMorristown, NJ 07960

Phone: + 1.973.829.4975

+ 1.973.829.5965 (FAX)

[email protected]


Project Start Date: November 15, 2003

Estimated Completion: March 2004




www.telcordia.com/solutions/integrated-access/gr/



Wireless Engineering/Installation Technical Advisory Group (W-E/I TAG) Forum

And

New GR, Equipment Installation Requirements for Wireless Switch and Cell Site Facilities

Telcordia is proposing the establishment of a Wireless Engineering/Installation Technical Advisory Group (W-E/I TAG) forum. This forum would address the engineering and installation quality needs of the wireless community and develop a Generic Requirements (GR) document to specifically address Cell and Switch Site instal-lations. These requirements are anticipated to be consistent with the requirements of the wireless community and provide a baseline of generic requirements to which all engineering/installation suppliers can be measured against. Examples of the proposed requirements include: Bonding and Grounding, Cabling, Ironwork, Power, General Assembly, and Fire-Stopping. Participation at the proposed Wireless E/I TAG meetings will afford the members an opportunity to hear and share ideas that are germane to the Wireless quality process. This will be a technical working group wherein no product(s) will be promoted. Represen-tation at meetings will be limited to two participants per company. Below is a summary of the benefits companies can gain through participation in Wireless E/I TAG meetings:

• Networking with other Wireless Service Providers, to achieve a better understanding of each others technical and operational needs and concerns, both as individual companies and in general.

• A forum to raise and discuss company-specific issues of interest to the industry generally, to explain how service providers or suppliers might make changes in their procedures and policies that would allow your company to improve its processes or services.

• Three meetings per year to define wireless installation quality improvements/requirements.

• Input to wireless engineering/installation requirements for inclusion in a Wireless GR document.

Participation in interim conference calls to discuss agenda items, minutes, and action item registers associated with the Wireless E/I TAG is also included in the funding fee.The deliverable for year 2003-2004 is planned to include development of the forum and issuance of an Installation GR entitled “Equipment Installation Requirements for Wireless Switch and Cell Site Facilities.” Pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, related to the development of industry-wide generic requirements, Telcordia invites all interested industry members to fund and participate in a W-E/I TAG forum, with associated development of a new GR, as proposed above. If your company is interested in funding and participating in this activity, or for more information, please contact Telcordia.

Contact: Larry PuccioE/I TAG ChairpersonTelcordia Technologies, Inc.444 Hoes Lane, Room 4F-624Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone: + 1.732.699.3791

[email protected]




Or

Jeff ChristensenProject ManagerTelcordia Technologies, Inc.444 Hoes Lane, Room 4F-628Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone: + 1.732.699.5520

[email protected]


Project Start Date: 4th Quarter 2003

Estimated Completion: 4th Quarter 2004




2004 GR Forecast December 2003


High-Level, Early Forecast of Proposed Telcordia GR Work Projects in 2004

(Information as of December 1, 2003)

Please CLICK HERE to view the detailed version of the 2004 GR Forecast as it appears in the 4Q03 Digest Plus

1. Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)

Project Manager GR Title/Subject Est. Price

per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Roberta Silverberg+ [email protected]

FR-15– GR-1129– GR-1298– GR-1299– GR-2938– SR-3968– SR-3969– SR-5140– SR-5208– SR-5219

Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)

$129.7K January - December OPEN

Barry Rossiter+ [email protected]

GR-1298 AINGR: Switching Systems(Section 9, Automatic Message Accounting)

$94K January - December OPEN

2. Billing Usage Measurements – Automatic Message Accounting (AMA)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Sara Knapp+ [email protected]

GR-1100 Billing Automatic Message Accounting Format (BAF)


GR-508GR-533GR-862GR-1083GR-1087GR-1147GR-1343GR-1504GR-2844GR-3012GR-3058

AMA Generic Require-ments Updates

*up to three of the documents listed to be updated

$20 - $25K for each GR($37.5K if participat-ing in all 3 GR updates)

January - December OPEN

Barry Rossiter+ [email protected]

GR-1298 AINGR: Switching Systems(Section 9, Automatic Message Accounting)






http://www.telcordia.com/resources/genericreq/digest/downloads/2004-grforecast.pdf



3. Broadband Operations & Network Technology


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Rudi Schubert+ [email protected]

No planned work at this time.

$40K February - January OPEN

4. Consumer Communications Equipment


Per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Stan Pietrowicz+ [email protected]

SR-3004 Consumer CPE Requirements & Testing Guidelines


New GR Wireline Short Message Service


5. Common Channel Signaling/Signaling System 7 (CCS/SS7)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Carol DeFazio+ [email protected]

GR-82GR-317GR-394GR-606GR-905GR-1241GR-1432

CCS/SS7 Network Element and Interconnection Generic Requirements

Continued work to resolve implementation issues and address interoperability concerns.


Stan Wainberg+ [email protected]

GR-246 SS7 Generic Requirements Update consistent with Standards resolutions.


GR-310 CCS OS - STP Interface $80K January - December OPEN

6. COMMON LANGUAGE Coding


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Anthony Giamboi+ [email protected]

GR-485 CLEI Codes $10.95K October 2003 -March 2004

OPEN









7. E9-1-1 Services


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Carol De Fazio+ [email protected]

GR-3112

New GR

Next Generation Network (NGN) Interconnection Specifications GR Update

Network LocationInformation Server (LIS)Generic Requirements

OR

NGN Network ElementGeneric Requirements


GR-3113

GR-3114

New GR

Update to GR-3113, Local LIS Generic

Requirements

Update to GR-3114,E9-1-1 Tandem-to-IP

PSAP: SIP Interface

E9-1-1 Tandem-to-IP PSAP Interface based on H.323

OR

Requirements for SIP or H.323 Gateway Function for E9-1-1 Tandem E-Enhanced MF signaling to PSAP




8. Energy Systems (Power) & Network Protection

Network Facilities and OSP Products for Distribution Network Elements:


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Trevor Bowmer+ [email protected]

GR-1515 Detection/Control of Ther-mal Runaway in Batteries


GR-3020 Nickel Cadmium Batteries in the Outside Plant

GR-1200

SR-4228

Accelerated Life Testing of VRLA Batteries at High Temperatures

VRLA Battery String Certi-fication

GR-347 Telecommunications Power Cable

$12K - $15K


GR-513 LSSGR - Power $20K January - December OPEN

GR-151 24-, 48-, 130- and 140-Volt CO Power Plant Rectifiers

TA-406 DC Bulk Power System for Confined Locations

GR-947 Telecom. Switchmode Rec-tifier/Power Supply


TR-967 Low-Power Telecommuni-cations Power Supply/Rec-tifier

TR-1003 Embedded DC/DC Con-verters

TR-1293

GR-2957

Permanent Engine-Genera-tors for Remote Electronic Sites

Below-Ground Flywheel Energy Storage Systems

$10K or $15K*

*can fund either one or both documents


New GR Fuel Cells for Back-Up Energy Storage in Remote Sites

$25K - $30K





9. Fiber Optic Media, Components, and Systems


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


GR-20 Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Cable


GR-1435 Multi-fiber Optical Connectors


GR-1312 Optical Fiber Amplifiers and Proprietary DWDM Systems


10. Integrated Access Systems (IAS) – Digital Loop Carrier Systems


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Rob Bond+ [email protected]

GR-909 Generic Criteria for Fiber in the Loop Systems

$43K before 11/15/03

$47.3 after 11/15/03

November 2003 - March 2004

OPEN

11. Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Nadine Abbott+ [email protected]


12. Network Facilities, Components, and Central Office Equipment, & NEBS�


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Randall Ray McCarver+ [email protected]

GR-63 NEBS - Fire Resistence Requirements and Sound Power Measurements Techniques


Jeff Christensen+ [email protected]

New GR Installation Requirements for Wireless Switched & Cell Sites










per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Ernie Gallo+ [email protected]

GR-487 Electronic Equipment Cabinets

$10K* January - December OPEN

GR-49

TR-975

TR-1195

TR-937

Network Interface Devices

Unprotected Terminal Blocks

Cross-Terminal Blocks

Building Entrance Terminals


GR-974

GR-1361

GR-2916

Telephone Line Protector Units

Gas Tube Protector Units (GTPUs)

Protector Block Assemblies


TR-1011 AC Power Surge Protection Devices

$7.5K* January - December OPEN

GR-2890 Fiber in the Loop Active Network Interface Device


* Participate in all five projects for $45K and save $12.5K.

Ernie Gallo+ [email protected]

New GR:GR-3111

Generic Requirements for Products Used in the Outside Plant With High Speed Data Circuits, Telephony Category 3 & Category 5 Applications

$7.5K January - June OPEN





Network Facilities and OSP Products for Distribution Network Elements:


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


TR-173

TR-354

TR-620

TR-1231

TR-1246

TR-2811

TR-2812

SR-4480

Cleaners, Encapsulants,

and Other Materials:

Rubber Insulating Gloves

Re-Enterable Encapsulants

Wasp and Hornet Spray

Moisture Displacement Lubricants

Corrosion washes

Cable Placing Lubricants

Cleaning Solvents for OSP

Chemicals used in Performance

Additional documents

may be identified and/or

added by Telcordia and by

funding participants.

$30K*

*Extent of the work will be deter-mined by the num-ber of partici-pants.






per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


TR-156

TR-180

TR-251

TR-267

TR-979

TR-789

Support Hardware -

Aerial:

Drop Wire Splice

Pole Hardware Attachments

Service Wire Splice

Drop Wire Clamp

Wire Connectors

Lashed Cable Supports



added.

Document selection may

also be determined by the


$30K*



TR-60 Wood Poles $25K January - December OPEN

New GR Non-Wood Poles $35K January - December OPEN





per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


TR-50

TR-51

TR-450

TR-452

TR-456

TR-961

TA-1055

Public Telephone (PT)

Components:

PT Mounting Accessories

Telephone Mountings

Public Telephone Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency Dial (DTMF)

PT Handsets

Public Terminals

PT Coin Chassis

PT Electronic Coin Chute



added.




$30K*



TR-58

TR-79

TR-183

TR-206

TR-294

Air Pressure Systems:

Pipe & Distribution Panels

Pressure Contactors

Flow Transducers

Air Pipe Cable

Transducer Housings



added.




$25K*







per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Trevor Bowmer+ [email protected] GR-2886

GR-2887

GR-2888

Tools and Hardware:

Connectorizing Tools for Coaxial Cable

Tools for Installing Broadband Coaxial Networks

Hardware for Installing Broadband Coaxial Networks

$32K*



New GR GR for Generic Tools for Installing Communications Networks



added by Telcordia or with





Metallic Cables – Intrabuilding Cables and Interconnection Wires:


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


GR-492

GR-111

GR-126

GR-136

GR-137

GR-139

TR-122

TR-124

TR-131

TR-132

TR-133

TR-188

SR-3253

Metallic Cables and Wires:

Telecommunications Cables

Telecommunication Wire

Riser Cable

Outdoor, Premise & Uni-versal CrossConnect Wire

Distributing Frame Wire

CO Cable

CO Coaxial Cable

Multi-Pair Aerial Wire

Multiple Pair Buried Wire

Network Plenum Cable

Network Shielded Wire

Network Inside Cable

Transition and Plugged Cable Stubs

Metallic Cable Coding Plan



added.




$40K*






High Performance Coaxial Cable Connectors:


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status


GR-139

TA-466

GR-2880

GR-2881

GR-1503

GR-2889

New GR

Coaxial Connectors:

Separable Electrical Con-nectors

CO Coaxial Cable

Interface of Central Office Cable Connectors

Plenum Coaxial Cable

Indoor Coaxial Cable

Coaxial Connectors

Coaxial F-Port

High Performance Coaxial Connectors for CO and Remote Switch Applications



added by Telcordia and

may also be determined by

the funding participants.

$50K for all documents

$35K for new documents only

$30K for existing GRs only



13. Network Integration/Synchronization


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status







14. Operator Services Systems (OSS) and Database Services (e.g., LIDB)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Arleen Elliott+ [email protected]


15. Reliability & Quality


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Spilios Makris+ [email protected]

No planned work at this time

16. Security Systems


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

John Kimmins+ [email protected]


17. Switching Systems (LSSGR) Functions & Features/Services


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Sara Knapp+ [email protected]


18. Telecommunications Management Network (TMN)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Eric Seldner+ [email protected]









Contact Telcordia For MoreInformation About the

Telcordia GenericRequirements Process

Patricia A. FayGeneric Requirements Process ManagerTelcordia Technologies, Inc.8 Corporate Place Room 3M-116Piscataway, NJ 08854+ 1.732.699.8304

[email protected]

19. Next Generation Networks (NGN) Voice over Packet (VoP)


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Anindo Bagchi+ [email protected]


20. Wireless Technologies


per Client

Estimated

Project Period

Project

Status

Jeff Christensen+ [email protected]

New GR Installation Requirements for Wireless Switched & Cell Sites


John Wojewoda+ [email protected]

Please contact Mr. Wojewoda for all other wireless-related inquiries.





December 2003


notices to the industry

Telcordia Professional Installation Methods and Power and Protection Re-Certification Program

Telcordia is pleased to introduce an easy method for renewing your Professional Installation Methods and Power and Protection

Certifications, which began on March 1, 2003. Now, rather than allowing your three-year certification to expire, you can renew it any time within those three years by registering for a re-certification exam. These exams are easily accessible via the Internet and take only one hour to complete.

The cost to update your Certification is $250.00 per course. A requirement of re-certification is that if you attain an 80% or better score for your certification to be renewed for three (3) years in that course. If you do not attain an 80% and you wish to be re-certified, you are required to retake the course for certification.

In order to participate in the re-certification testing, you must have attended the course in question since January 1, 1999, and achieved a minimum grade of 80%. The courses involved are those in Profes-sional Installation Methods & Power and Protection Curriculums.

This program allows you to maintain your industry recognized certification by assuring that you are current in the accepted standards of today. The achievement of certification will aid you in ensuring the safety of personnel, proper installation and operation of equipment, and maintaining quality service.

To register, please call 1.800.TEACHME.

For information about the Professional Installation Methods or

Power and Protection Certification Programs, please call 1.800.TEACHME or visit us at www.800teachme.com.

You may also contact Bill Dusablon, Curriculum Manager, at + 1.630.960.6984 or e-mail [email protected] with any questions you might have regarding current industry Installation and Power requirements.

Completed Distributable Technical Analysis Report Announcements

At the request of many suppliers, Telcordia is providing in the Digest a monthly listing of completed Distributable Technical Analysis Reports (DAs) prepared under the voluntary, optional Telcordia Technical Analysis Program.

The document listing below includes only Distributable Reports that were developed as “Distributable Technical Analysis Reports” (DAs).

Any supplier who has had a Distributable Technical Analysis Report prepared within one year of the Digest publication date can request that report availability be included in the Digest listing. The supplier is responsible for distributing copies of the report in accordance with its agreement with Telcordia. Inclusion of a Distributable Technical Analysis Report in the Digest is completely voluntary by the supplier and does not reflect results of any analyses.

http://www.800teachme.com


notices to the industry December 2003


Interested parties may contact the supplier directly for copies of the Distributable Technical Analysis Reports, that will be made available under appropriate nondisclosure agreements.

If you would like a Distributable Technical Analysis Report(s) listed in future issues of the Digest, please call + 1.732.699.8428 to make arrangements for the appropriate person under your Auditing Agreement to confirm your request in writing.

Completed Distributable Technical Analysis Reports (DAs)

Supplier Product Criteria Area(s)* Document

Juniper Networks+ 1.408.745.3169

Reliability Analysis of the Juniper Networks M20 Internet Backbone Router

PR DA-1311, Volume 1, Issue 1, November 2001(Digest Date: September 2002)


Reliability Analysis of the Juniper Networks M160 Internet Backbone Router

PR DA-1436, Volume 1,Issue 1, January 2002(Digest Date: September 2002)


Reliability Analysis of the Juniper Networks M40E Internet Router

PR DA-1350, Volume 1,Issue 1, February 2002(Digest Date: September 2002)


Reliability Analysis of the Juniper Networks T640 Internet Routing Node

PR DA-1406, Volume 1,Issue 1, July 2002(Digest Date: September 2002)

Catena Networks+ 1.613.599.6430 Ext. 8221

Features, Functions, and Performance Analysis of the GR-303 Generic Interface of the Catena Networks CN1000 Remote Digital Terminal, Software Release 1.0

FFP DA-1409, Volume 1,Issue 1, December 2002(Digest Date: December 2002)

Federal-Mogul SPG+ 1.610.280.1389

NEBS™ Fire Resistance Analysis of the Federal-Mogul SPG Roundit 2000 SE

PR DA-1477, Volume 1,Issue 1, June 2003(Digest Date: August 2003)

* Criteria Areas: Features, Functions, & Performance (FFP); Environmental Compatibility (EC); Product Reliability (PR); Quality Technology (QT); and System Change Analysis (SCA)



Telcordia Quality Registration Services™

Since 1993, Telcordia Quality Registration Services™ (TQR™) has been accredited as a Quality System Registrar by the American National Accreditation Program for Registrars of Quality Systems, a partnership of the Registrar Accreditation Board and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI-RAB NAP) to perform ISO 9000 and TL 9000 series quality system registration. With this accredi-tation, TQR can be called upon to review and register the quality management systems of other companies, such as suppliers to the telecommunications industry. Third-party registration indicates that a company has implemented a defect prevention program and the company’s quality systems meet the requirements of the appropriate ISO 9000 standard.

ISO is an international standards organization made up of the national standards bodies of 91 countries. The United States (US) is represented by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ISO 9000 series is a set of five international standards on quality management and quality assurance. The US has adopted these standards as the ANSI/ASQC Q9000 series. The ISO 9000 standards refer to a quality management system that was first adopted by the European community in 1987 to help eliminate trade barriers and provide conformity among quality systems of suppliers, but now has become recognized and used worldwide. ISO 9000 standards guide both manufacturing and service companies to build quality into their products and services.

As an accredited Registrar, TQR reviews quality systems of companies in the telecommunications and associated industries. The process begins with a TQR review of a company’s quality systems documentation to compare it to the appropriate ISO 9000 standard. This is followed by an initial preassessment visit (which is optional) to the company’s premises, and then a more extensive audit of the company’s entire quality management system as it applies to designated product lines and plant locations. TQR issues a report on its findings after completing each step.

If a problem has been detected, the company being audited has 30 days to produce a plan detailing how it plans to correct the problem. When the TQR Registration Committee is satisfied that appropriate corrective actions have been taken, they issue the appropriate ISO 9000 registration. The length of the process depends on an individual company, and whether they already have a defect-prevention program in place.

After it has registered a company, TQR conducts an on-site surveillance audit every six months or annually for three years. The entire process must be repeated every three years in order for a company to maintain its ISO 9000 registration. Companies that have achieved ISO 9000 receive a certificate of registration. They can use the TQR registration mark to indicate they are registered by TQR, and the accreditation body’s mark on their stationery and promotional material, although not on their products themselves. Registered companies are placed in the Registrar’s Supplier Registry. The TQR Supplier Registry appears on the following pages.



If Interested, Contact: Peter M. Ortolani

Audit Program ManagerTelcordia Quality Registration ServicesTelcordia Technologies, Inc.444 Hoes Lane, Room RRC-4F624Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone: + 1.732.699.4246

+ 1.732.336.2244 (FAX)

[email protected]

http://tqr.telcordia.com

TQR Supplier Registry

Company Location/ContactDate Registered

Standard/Certificate # Scope of Registration

Positron Public Safety SystemsPositron TechnologiesPower Division

5101 Buchan Street Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4P2R9

Patrick Parent + 1.514.345.2200

10/19/93 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00003

PPSS: design, development, & servcing of E911 systemsPT: contract manufacturing, prototyping, supply chain, & servicingPD: design, development, & servicing

Sparton Technology 4901 Rockaway Blvd., S.E.Rio Rancho, NM 87124-4469

2400 E. Atlantic Way Deming, NM 88030

Bob Quintana + 1.505.892.5300

8/4/94 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00008

Microprocessor-based Pressure Management Systems, Pressure and Flow Transducers, Electronic and Manufacturing, Intrusion Detection Sensors and Systems, Power Monitoring and Control Systems, and Automatic Utility Meter Reading and other Enhanced Residential Services

Manufacturer of Cable Assemblies, Wiring Harnesses, and Electronics for Automotive, Commercial and Industrial Markets






C-COR 60 Decibel Road 9001 State College, PA 16801

999 Research Pkwy.Meriden, CT 06450

CCOR de MexicoA.v. LaPaz 2713-BParque IND. Pacifico. CP 22670Tijuana, B.C., Mexico

Scott Ripa+ 1.203.639.2723

10/17/94 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00034

Design, Development, and Manufacture of Global Broadband Communications Equipment

Dura-Line Corporation

1284 East GlendaleSparks, NV 89431

1445 South 23rd StreetMiddlesboro, KY 40965

Ave. 5 de FebreroNo. 1309Queretaro, QroMexico C.P. 76130

Autoro Valencia+ 1.606.248.6456

11/14/94 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00012

Design, Development, and Manufacture of Plastic Pipe, Duct, and Conduit

Motorola BCS S. A. de C. V. (Nogales, Mexico)

P.O. Box 1288 Nogales, AZ 85628

Sergio Rivera + 1.800.343.4566

1/9/95 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00015

Design, Development, and Production of Distribution Equipment for Cable TV, Cable Modems, and TV Converters

Telmar Network Technology

16781 Noyes Avenue Irvine, CA 92606

Gary McMullin1.800.262.7427

1/9/95 TL 9000TQRS-00016

Distribution, Test, and Repair of Telecommunications Equipment

Wilcom P.O. Box 508 Laconia, NH 03247

Michael Frankauski+ 1.603.524.2622

5/8/95 ISO 9001:1994TQRS-00018

Design, Development, Production, and Servicing of Telephone Test Equipment and Line Treatment Products

Applied Innovation Inc.

5800 Innovation DriveDublin, OH 43017

Dave Regler+ 1.614.798.2000

7/12/95 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00019

Design, Development, Production, and Servicing of Telecommunication Network Management Equipment and Software

TQR Supplier Registry (Continued)

Company Location/Contact Date Registered




Precision Communication Services, Inc.

7710 North 30th Street Tampa, FL 33610

1801 10th StreetPlano, TX 75074

1406 N. Main StreetTarboro, NC 27866

Gerald Seidelmann+ 1.813.212.9273

11/6/95 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00020

Repair and Refurbishment of Telecommunication Equipment

Dantel, Inc. 2991 North Argyle AvenueFresno, CA 93727

Ron Murrey+ 1.559.292.1111, Ext. 322

12/18/95 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00022

Design, Development, Production, and Servicing of Alarm Monitoring and Control Systems for Telecommunications Applications

ACTERNA 12410 Milestone Center DriveGermantown, MD 20876

Larry Baranyi+ 1.240.404.1960

12/15/96 TL 9000TQRS-00030

Design and Manufacture of Products and Services that help Communications Providers Install and Maintain Communications Networks and Equipment

Omron Manufacturing of America, Inc.

3705 Ohio Avenue St. Charles, IL 60174

Roger Saltzman+ 1.630.513.0400, Ext. 132

1/20/97 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00031

Industrial Controls

Pair Gain Communications Inc.

6260 South Bay RoadCicero, NY 13039

Rick Piesins, VP+ 1.315.698.4411

6/24/03 ISO 9001:2000TQRS-00035

Quality Management System (QMS) for cable assembly, engineering and installation service provider for the telecommunications industry

TQR Supplier Registry (Continued)

Company Location/Contact Date Registered


December 2003


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Section 1 — Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)

GR-1129-CORE This document provides proposed generic requirements for an AIN Service Switching Point (SSP) to support interfaces to an AIN Intelligent Peripheral (IP). The IP is used to provide information to a network user and/or to collect information from a network user via a circuit-switched bearer connection. A range of devices other than an IP may communicate with an SSP, SCP, or Adjunct by using the Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI) as described in this GR. A functional model of an IP is provided to assist in describing the interfaces; it is not intended to suggest any particular implemen-tation.

The purpose of this document is to inform industry, including IP suppliers, switching system suppliers, Operations System (OS) suppliers, SCP and Adjunct suppliers, and service creators of the proposed SSP generic requirements, which reflect the needs of Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) that have participated with Telcordia in this work. It is not intended to imply an implementation.

The proposed AIN SSP generic requirements are for supporting:

• The interface between an IP and an AIN SSP. The interface described by the proposed generic requirements may be used by an IP or by any other device that conforms to the interface.

• The interface between an IP and an AIN SSP to which the IP does not have a direct Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) connection.

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• Certain fields in messages that are used between an SCP/Adjunct and an SSP for exchanging information with an IP

• Certain fields in messages to support AIN operations such as maintenance (e.g., IP out of service) and security

• Data needed for Automatic Message Accounting (AMA)

Issue 8 includes the following major changes:

• Section 4:

— Requirements were modified to describe the processing that should take place at the SSP when an outstanding Invoke exists due to a Cancel_Resource_Event being received by the SSP for its connection to the IP. The preexisting requirements covered two of the four cases. The other two cases are covered with the modifications in this issue of the document.

• Section 5:

— Requirements were added to describe the processing that should take place between the local and remote SSP when an outstanding Invoke exists due to a Cancel_Resource_Event being received by the local SSP for its connection to a remote IP. The new requirements that were added dealt with all four of the possible cases.

— Changes were made to requirements to remove an undefined error code (i.e., the error code did not have a description in the list of defined error codes and, therefore, did not exist) and replace it with an appropriate preexisting error code.

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Network Generic Requirements (AINGR) document set, which contains nine documents related to AIN. The modules are available individually or as the complete FR-15 set. See page page 55 for FR-15 pricing.]

GR-1298-CORE This document provides proposed generic requirements for the AIN Service Switching Point (SSP). The requirements include the detection capability of SSPs that enables them to determine that a query is needed and to launch the query; the query population rules; Service Control Point (SCP)/Adjunct response processing; participant (i.e., end user) interactions; capacity concerns; operations capabilities; Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) (i.e., usage measurements for billing); and interactions with other switch features.

A Service Switching Point (SSP) is a switch with the capability to query external service logic or databases to continue processing a call or continue offering a service to an end user. An AIN SSP queries AIN SCPs or AIN Adjuncts to obtain this processing data.

Issue 9 of GR-1298-CORE reflects changes to requirements in Sections 4, 5, 8, and 9.

Major changes include the following:

• Section 5:

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— Requirements were added to allow the receipt of the Analyze_Route message in response to the O_Disconnect and O_Suspended Query messages. A note was added along with the requirements to provide additional guidelines on the way the capability should be used.

— Changes were made for the processing of errors associated with the Update message. The changes correspond to the additional parameters that were added to Section 6 of GR-1299-CORE for reporting errors to the SCP.

• Section 9:

— New Collect_Information message AMA requirements were added. The previous AMA requirements cover the cases where AMAslpID is returned, and where No AMAslpID is returned. There were no AMA requirements for receipt of the Collect_Information message without both AlternateDialingPlanIndicator (ADPI) and Vertical Service Code (VSC). The new Collect_Information AMA requirements, as part of addressing the cases without ADPI and VSC, also included scenarios with and without SDS, with and without AMAslpID, and with and without a call attempt, for both the separate records approach and the merged records approach of recording AMA usage data.

— New AMA requirements were added for receipt of the Analyze_Route message in response to O_Suspended and O_Disconnect_Called. These new AMA requirements allow for a switchbased option to append an Indicator Module Code (Module Code 204) to the final AMA record generated from a serial triggering call scenario. This Module Code informs the billing system that the originating caller remained off-hook after the previous call and immediately before the event-initiated call. The new AMA requirements also included scenarios with and without SDS, and with and without AMAslpID, for both the separate records approach and merged records approach of recording AMA usage data.

— A review of Section 9 for text that indicates either “under study” or “for future developments” resulted in identifying nine occurrences that required updating. The nine occurrences were updated either by eliminating the “under study” or “for future development” statements due to previous requirements being added, or the addition of text to clarify the reason for being under study or for future development. In some cases, explanatory text was added to provide caution on using certain AIN messages in specific scenarios.

— New AMA requirements were added to allow for recording AMA Structure Code 221 to be generated for AIN Default Routing call scenarios when involved in the Terminating Call Model.







GR-1299-CORE This document provides proposed generic requirements for the AIN Switch – Service Control Point (SCP)/Adjunct Interface. The proposed generic requirements for the interface include primarily the application protocol used by the switch, SCP and Adjunct, as well as lower layer protocols used by the SCP. The application layer protocol is based on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) Application Service Element (ASE). Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1), as defined in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Recommendation X.208, is used to describe the ANSI TCAP messages that are sent over the interface.

This document also includes proposed generic requirements for the lower layer protocols for the SSP-SCP interface. A proposal for the lower layer protocols for the SSPAdjunct interface is provided in Section 3.1 of TR-NWT-001127, Advanced Intelligent Network

Adjunct Generic Requirements. The lower layer protocols for the SSP-SCP interface are based on Signaling System Number 7 (SS7).

Issue 9 includes the following major changes:

• Section 2:

— A change was made to a requirement to allow noncorrelated messages to be sent without an Invoke ID. The new requirement allows for the inclusion of the Invoke ID for noncorrelated message to be optional.

• Section 3:

— A change was made to an existing requirement and explanatory text added to indicate that the Origination_Attempt EDP-N should be sent in a Response Package. The text points out that sending an EDP-N in a Response is an exception since EDP-Ns and EDP-Rs are generally sent in Conversation Packages. The change to this requirement is consistent with existing requirements in GR-1298 related to Create_Call and the Origination_Attempt EDP-N.

• Section 5:

— An existing requirement was modified to include the new UpdateFailure parameter as part of the Failure_Report message. This change was made to facilitate the reporting of errors related to the updating of data objects at the SSP based on requests from the SCP.

• Section 6:

— Changes were made to allow for the support of the Call Treatment Indicator field in the AlternateTrunkGroup parameter. The field was already defined but was not part of the subset of capabilities that the switch was expected to process. A description of the way the associated subfields should be processed is also provided.

— A requirement was added to define a number of additional parameters to be used with the Update message function (i.e., the SSP updating data objects based on a request from the SCP).

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The parameters were created to add in the reporting of errors for this function.



Section 2 — Billing Usage Measurements — Automatic Message Accounting (AMA)

No new releases this month.

Section 3 — Broadband Operations and Network TechnologyNo new releases this month.

Section 4 — Consumer Communications Equipment


Section 5 — Common Channel Signaling/Signaling System 7 (CCS/SS7)


Section 6 — COMMON LANGUAGE® CodingNo new releases this month.

Section 7 — E9-1-1 Services


Section 8 — Energy Systems (Power) and Network Protection


Section 9 — Fiber Optic Media, Components, and Systems






Section 10 — Integrated Access Systems (IAS) — Digital Loop Carrier Systems


Section 11 — Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)No new releases this month.

Section 12 — Network Facilities, Components, Central Office Equipment, and NEBS™

GR-1275-CORE This document provides proposed generic requirements associated with the support that Installation Suppliers or Telecommunication Carriers (TC) are expected to provide with their products, features, or services. These services might be associated with the installation of new or expanded equipment, as well as the removal of existing equipment.

This GR incorporates into one document the proposed generic requirements associated with the installation or removal of telecom-munications equipment from a Central Office environment.

The generic requirements contained in this document are intended to familiarize the Installation Supplier with a typical TC's installation procedures and requirements by:

• Outlining the general requirements and workmanship requirements for additions, modifications, removals, and/or other services involving telecommunications equipment.

• Defining the necessary documentation required, in the Telcordia view, for the installation activity.

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[GR-1275-CORE is a module of FR-INSTALL-19, the Central Office

Environment Installation Requirements and Services document set, which contains three documents related to Central Office instal-lation requirements and services. The modules are available individually or as the complete FR-INSTALL-19 set. See page page 55 for FR-INSTALL-19 pricing.]

Central Office Environment Installation/Removal Generic Requirements

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GR-1502-CORE GR-1502-CORE provides proposed engineering generic requirements that Detail Engineering Service Providers (DESPs) are expected to provide with their services. Adherence to these generic requirements are necessary to help ensure that newly installed equipment operates in accordance with design parameters in owned or leased telecommunications equipment buildings of a Telecommu-nications Carrier (TC), and to ensure that equipment is installed in a safe and efficient manner. These proposed engineering and documentation generic requirements are the criteria to which DESPs may be compared against for job acceptance purposes. However, TCs may, at their discretion, specify their own individual additional regional requirements for specific installations or types of orders.

The proposed generic engineering requirements contained in this document are intended to be applicable to all types of engineered telecommunications equipment, i.e., switching, transmission, and common systems; and include frame, circuit-protection device, and power, etc. However, this document is not all-inclusive; additional engineering guidance may be required to engineer a specific piece of equipment, or to meet additional regional practices or requirements.

Issue 2 of GR-1502 reflects technically revised sections, or the addition of new sections as follows:

• Sections 1 through 21

• Sections 24 through 37 (excluding Section 33)

• Appendixes A and B, which are now the references and glossary sections (formerly Sections 38 and 39)

• A Requirement-Object Index (ROI), which lists all of the requirements and their location in this document.

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Environment Installation Requirements and Services document set, which contains three documents related to Central Office instal-lation requirements and services. The modules are available individually or as the complete FR-INSTALL-19 set. See page page 55 for FR-INSTALL-19 pricing.]

Section 13 — Network Integration/Synchronization


Section 14 — Operator Services Systems (OSS) and Database Services (e.g., LIDB)


Section 15 — Reliability and QualityNo new releases this month.

Central Office Environment Detail Engineering Generic Requirements

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Section 16 — Security of Telecom Software Systems


Section 17 — Switching Systems (e.g., LSSGR) Functions, Features, and ServiceNo new releases this month.

Section 18 — Telecommunications Management Network (TMN)


Section 19 — Next Generation Networks (NGN)/Voice over Packet (VoP)


Section 20 — Wireless


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Central Office Environment Detail Engineering Generic Requirements

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AXESSSM Point Service includes a multi-faceted document classification scheme (by product, by technology, or by document type) stored in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Telcordia can implement AXESSSM Point Service for your entire company, specific workgroups, or individuals for easy, instant access to selected Telcordia documentation.

The Ultimate in Customer Service and Support

Once activated within your company, you will have a direct, user-friendly, secure link to the Telcordia integrated information delivery service that provides Web-based access to your selected Telcordia documentation.

AXESSSM Point Features:

What’s New – Daily notification of new and updated documents.

Browse – Browse through the collection of on line documents by organized categories.

Basic Search – Full-text searching based on specified criteria.

Advanced Search – Powerful, highly flexible, searching through full-text or selected options.

Specialized Services – Access to licensed Telcordia product group data, view and download information, or access a forum to exchange information with suppliers and user groups (Requires password and login).

Feedback – A direct communication vehicle to AXESSSM Point support.

Archived Documents – Search, view, and download obsolete or superseded Requirements and Information Products documents.

Help – AXESSSM Point Service on line user guide to help you find answers to common questions.

Benefits of AXESSSM Point Service

• Convenience

— Immediate access to a broad array of Telcordia resources

— Perform searches/research on demand

— No more misplaced documents

— Current information always at your fingertips

— Employees and workgroups have consistent information

— Fast, direct reporting of trouble and easy trouble tracking

• Productivity

— Eliminate the need to duplicate and store documents

— Eliminate the need to manage and update product documentation

— Significantly reduce the time spent searching for information, troubleshooting problems, and issuing trouble reports.

— Eliminate document ordering

Client Requirements

Company employees simply need desktop access to the corporate Intranet along with a standard Web browser and the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® plug-in.

Enterprise Requirements

You choose the service level that meets your needs -- enterprise-wide, workgroup, or individual.

If necessary, our experts will handle end-to-end system integration, connecting a Telcordia AXESSSM Point distribution node to your Intranet to provide improved performance and security.

As your needs change, Telcordia can make adjustments, helping to ensure that all employees who need instant access have instant access.

Getting Started Is Easy

To learn more about the Telcordia® AXESSSM Point Service, call your local Telcordia Account Executive or contact:

Kelly JohnsonDocument Development, Delivery, & Consulting

Phone: + 1.732.699.2405

E-mail: [email protected]

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COMMON LANGUAGE® Codes

Supplier Contracts . . . . . . . +1.732.699.3514Carrier Licenses . . . . . . . . +1.732.699.8859FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.336.3568

Documentation/Information & Ordering

USA & Canada . . . . . . . . . . 1.800.521.2673Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.699.5800FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.336.2559

Generic Requirements

Process Manager . . . . . . . +1.732.699.8304

NEBS™ Technical Services

Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.973.829.5700

Network Integrity and Disaster Recovery Service

Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.758.3030E-mail . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

Telcordia® Numbering Services Center

USA & Canada . . . . . . . . . . 1.866.804.7378

Telcordia® Learning Services Center Course Information

USA & Canada . . . 1.800.TEACH.ME (832.2463)Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.630.960.6300FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.630.960.6230

Documentation Coordinators

Verizon Communications

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . +1.703.974.4137FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.703.974.8732Credit Card Orders . . . . . . +1.732.699.5828

BellSouth

Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . +1.205.977.3918FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.205.977.3157AXESSSM Point Service Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . +1.205.977.8921

Cincinnati Bell Inc.

Credit Cards Only . . . . . . . +1.732.699.5828

Industry Clients

Orders and Information . . . . . 1.800.521.2673

Worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.699.5800FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.336.2559

SBC APEX Network

Documentation Center . . . . . +1.517.788.6872FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.517.787.4583AXESSSM Point Service Coordinator

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Telcordia

Orders and Information . . . . . +1.732.699.2409FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +1.732.336.2627

Qwest

Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . +1.303.965.5878

Web Sites

Telcordia Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.telcordia.com

Digest of Technical Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.telcordia.com/digest

Information SuperStore (All Telcordia Information Releases) . . . http://telecom-info.telcordia.com

Telcordia® Numbering Services Center . . . . . . . . . . . . www.numberingcenter.telcordia.com

Telcordia® Routing Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.TRAinfo.com

Telcordia Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.800teachme.com


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