Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network — Part 3: Packet and cell based technology — AS/CA S003.3:2010) 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
1 Name of Technical Standard
(1) This Technical Standard is the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Access Equipment for connection to Telecommunications Network — Part 3: Packet and cell based technology — AS/CA S003.3:2010) 2010.
(2) This Technical Standard may also be cited as the AS/CA S003.3-2010.
2 Commencement
This Technical Standard commences on the day after it is registered.
3 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.
4 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.
5 Application
This Technical Standard applies to customer access equipment that uses either or both of the following:
(a) a packet or cell based technology to attain a port connection;
(b) a packet or cell based port for an external connection.
Example
Customer access equipment that incorporates Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technologies.
6 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 3: Packet and cell based technologies (AS/CA S003.3:2010), 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 http://www.frli.gov.au.