Specifications

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AS/CA S002:2010 COPYRIGHT
OCTOBER 2010
Introduction
This introduction for the AS/ACIF S002:2010 Analogue interworking and non-
interference requirements for Customer Equipment for connection to the Public
Switched Telephone Network Standard is not an authoritative section of this
Standard and is only provided as guidance for the user of the Standard to outline
its objectives and the factors that have been taken into account in its
development and to list the principal differences between the new and the
previous edition.
The reader is directed to the clauses of this Standard for the specific requirements
and to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for the
applicable telecommunications labelling and compliance arrangements.
Note: Further information on the telecommunications labelling and compliance
arrangements can be found in The Telecommunications Labelling (Customer
Equipment and Customer Cabling) Notice (the TLN). The TLN can be obtained
from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) website at
www.acma.gov.au.
The objective of this Standard is to provide the requirements and test methods for
customer equipment (CE) and in the case of compound CE the parts of the
compound CE that are designed or intended for connection to an analogue
PSTN two-wire service in order to meet the regulatory arrangements for such
equipment in Australia.
The objective of this revision is to bring the Standard into alignment with other
Customer Equipment Standards and with the services provided on Australian
telecommunications networks.
The principal differences between this edition of AS/ACIF S002 and the previous
edition are:
(a) the references to other Standards have been updated.
(b) a new recommendation has been added for keypad locks (Clause 5.1.8.5).
(c) the table in Appendix A specifying PSTN service tone characteristics has
been updated in line with technology changes.
(d) the frequency range over which the voltage is specified for insertion loss has
been reduced to 15.3 to 50 Hz (Clause 5.2.3.3.).
(e) the 50 Hz meter signal detection requirements (Clause 5.5.1.3) and
associated test methods have been removed.
(f) the Loop-in PSTN line requirements (the former Clause 5.5.2 in the 2005
edition) and associated test methods have been removed.
(g) the upper frequency limit of the Power Spectral Density mask has been
extended to 30.175 MHz to align with other Customer Equipment Standards
to cater for VDSL2 services (Clause 5.4.2.4).
(h) new longitudinal power level requirements (Clause 5.4.6) and associated
test methods have been added, now aligning with other Customer
Equipment Standards.