Telecommunications Equipment Testing

Telecommunications equipment needs to perform properly at all times, and especially under adverse conditions, emergencies,  or disasters.

NEBS requirements
Stork experts evaluate telecommunications network equipment to GR-63-CORE: NEBS™ Requirements Physical Protection, a specification developed by Telcordia. This specification refers to physical qualification testing for telecommunications network equipment installed in an office building or other weather-protected, temperature-controlled location, and includes temperature extremes of –40° to 70°C for nonoperational storage tests. It also includes an 8-day operating-temperature humidity test profile that runs from –5° to 55°C. Packaging qualification is achieved by the successful completion of transportation, vibration, and handling tests. Other tests include heat dissipation, illumination or readability, altitude, acoustics, contamination, operational sine vibration, and disasters such as fire and earthquake.

NEBS™ stands for Network Equipment-Building System and describes the environment of a typical Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) Central Office (CO). This description includes spatial and environmental criteria. NEBS™ was developed by Bell Labs in the 1970s to standardize equipment that would eventually be installed in a CO and to simplify the design and deployment of telecommunications equipment in the Bell System. Telcordia, and its predecessor, Bellcore, has maintained the NEBS™ documents since the divestiture of the Bell System in 1984. NEBS™ requirements are utilized all over the world for a host of commercial, utility and defense applications.

Other telecommunications specifications and standards
Stork experts also perform testing to both GR-63 (Physical Protection) and GR-1089 (EMI/EMC/Electrical Safety) NEBS standards, as well as the European ETSI 300-019-XXX (Physical Protection) and ETSI 300-386 (EMI/EMC) test standards for telecommunications equipment. Stork Garwood can also qualify your unit to GR-1089 in a completely controlled environment. Additional in-house testing includes CE Mark, FCC certification, Product/Electrical Safety, wireless, and Bluetooth.

Verizon Certified ITL
Stork Garwood Laboratories, Inc. has been accepted as a Verizon Independent Testing Laboratory (ITL). This allows Garwood Labs to test products for submittal to Verizon for Telcordia NEBS GR-63-CORE and GR-1089-CORE test programs. Stork Garwood is proud to be among very few test laboratories in the country approved by Verizon for testing telecom products for utilization in Verizon networks. 

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Stork locations offering Telecommunications Equipment Testing:

Stork experts conduct testing to meet the following Telcordia specifications and Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS) Requirements:

• Climatics: Temperature, Humidity, Altitude, Temperature-Shock
• Fire Resistance
• Vibration: Transportation / Office
• Earthquake/Seismic: Zones 1 - 4
• Acoustic Noise
• Impact Shock

GR-63 CORE Physical Protection Standards
GR-1089 CORE EMC/Electrical Safety 

• Airborne Contaminants
• Illumination/Acoustic Noise
• Seismic/Vibration
• Fire Spread/Needle Flame Analysis
• Temperature/Humidity/Altitude
• Transportation/Handling
• 1st and 2nd Level Lightning and AC Power Fault
• DC Potential
• Electrical Safety/Bonding and Grounding
• ESD
• Radiated and Conducted Emissions/Immunity
• Short Circuit