Telcordia 2012 Generic Requirements (GR) Offers

SR-6002
Telcordia Generic Requirements: 2012 Offers Issue 3, September 2011
Harmonize with industry standards - e.g., SCTE, ANSI, NEC, UL, and other recognized
industry groups.
Help ensure mechanical and hardware compatibility through reference to several of the
other GR documents concerning connectors, termination ports, and interconnection
devices.
Help ensure electrical compatibility and protection coordination through reference to GR
documents such as GR-2908, Generic Requirements for Surge Protectors on Coaxial Lines
at Customer Premises, and GR-2910, Generic Requirements for Bonding and Grounding
Hardware on Coaxial Drop Cable, as well as other GR documents such as the latest issue
of GR-1089, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electrical Safety - Generic Criteria for
Network Telecommunications Equipment.
This GR will be coordinated and harmonized with the recent revisions to the metallic twistedpair
cable products used in similar applications and environments (e.g., GR-421, Generic
Requirements for Metallic Telecommunications Cables; GR-3163, Generic Requirements for
Metallic Telecommunications Service and Distribution Drop Wires; and GR-3164, Generic
Requirements for Metallic Telecommunications Premises Wires). GR-3163 and GR-3164 will
be used to help define effective functional performance requirements for the cable
applications in indoor/outdoor environments, as well as common jacket material requirements
that both products share.
Planned technical items for this new GR include the following:
1. Consolidate numerous coaxial cable applications into a single GR.
2. Update material choices for cable jacket and insulation materials, and harmonize with
recent work on GR-3164 (inside cables) and GR-421 (PIC cables).
3. Update the Quality Assurance subsection in Section 2 to include the latest Quality
Management System (QMS) philosophy, including ISO9000 and TL 9000 approaches to
product quality and reliability issues.
4. Revise the packaging subsections in Section 3 to harmonize with GR-421 and GR-3164.
5. Update referenced procedures while bringing necessary technical information explicitly
into the new GR. Where possible and appropriate, requirements shall be harmonized with
relevant SCTE and UL industry standards.
6. Update jacket and dielectric materials requirements to create functional performance
criteria and move away from implicit material-specific requirements.
7. The Telcordia Technical Forum (TTF) group for this GR will review application changes to
ascertain the necessary electrical performance (attenuation, frequencies, etc.) to match
the service demands for the current and future-planned networks, including DAS and
Ethernet systems.
A more detailed, section-by-section plan for the revisions to these coaxial cable documents is
available on request (SR-6004, Issue 2).
The Value of Participation
As a participating company in the development of this proposed new GR, you will have the
opportunity to influence its content in the following specific ways:
Determine the technical scope of the new document
Decide how to best consolidate and update technical content from the GRs that will be
replaced by the new GR, and incorporate that content into the new GR
Raise, discuss, and define coaxial cable product-related issues via face-to-face and/or
conference call meetings with your industry peers
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