A Technical Analysis of the Common Carrier/User Interconnections Area (1970) / Chapter Skim
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Section 6-- Certification Program
Section 6-- Certification Program
Pages 48-56
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The Federal Communications Commission regulates the operation of radio and television broadcasting stations through the issuing of station and personnel licenses. A certification of satisfactory inspection by an inspector, who is himself certified as competent, is required before an electric power utility will permit the connection of its power lines to a new home, office building or factory.
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In addition, a standardsdevelopment program in this area requires the work of knowledgeable people with sufficient training and experience in the design, manufacture, installation, operation, and maintenance of modern complex communication equipment and systems. Without this depth of practical technical knowledge, the resulting standards will fall short of the requirements for a workable certification program.
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The degree of inspection performed as a part of equipment certification determines the probability that the equipment will meet the standards. An enforced equipment_certification program requires not only an evaluation of equipment samples but evaluation of the manufacturing organization to establish that procedures for quality of component procur~ent, manufacturing, testing, personnel training, and quality control ensure that there is a consistency of production quality.
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In its simplest form, installation and maintenance certification would apply to a protective coupling unit designed to prevent harm to the public telephone network. If the protective features are not in a separate unit, but are incorporated into the user's equipment, then these procedures must apply to pertinent parts of equipment and facilities in the user system connected to the telephone line.
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A maintenance organization, in order to secure certification, should carry the necessary stock of replacement units, spare parts, and other material needed for service of the equipment. Training programs for service personnel should also be implemented in a way that meets or exceeds minimum standard requirements, PHASE-IN PROGRAM In the Applicable Experience Section (Section 8)
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The Panel has not investigated a schedule for this, but it could be considered as an element in the overall certification program. SELF-CERTIFICATION If a user-manufacturer sets up his own program for equipment certification and verifies that he, in fact,meets all the stated requirements of a producer of specific products, and that the finished product has been installed and inspected according to published standards, the resulting program would be called self-certification.
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for system design' The Panel also believes that any significant dispersal of responsi bility for service and cost would ultimately jeopardize the performance of ,the telephone network. The Panel also believes that this can be prevented by so structuring a program of standards and certification that the final authority for each segment of the program rests with the federal regulatory commission having jurisdiction ovel?
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To retain the greatest practicable degree of centralized responsibility, the Panel recommends, therefore, that all standards and certifying organizations cooperating in the program derive their authority from the same federal regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the services of the common carrier. The tariffs would contain the provisions governing interconnections.
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CONCLUSIONS (a) The establishment of standards and the enforced certification of user-supplied equipment and personnel fom an acceptable way of ensuring network protection.
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