Telcordia 2012 Generic Requirements (GR) Offers

SR-6002
Telcordia Generic Requirements: 2012 Offers Issue 3, September 2011
• Influence critical issues and the best practices and performance test procedures that will
benefit the industry
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Network with your industry peers and gain a better understanding of each participating
company’s needs and concerns.
Telcordia Invites Your Participation
To proceed with this project, it is expected that Telcordia will need five industry participants.
While the project can proceed with fewer participants, deliverables may change as a result.
The participating industry members will be apprised regularly of project status and any
changes in deliverables.
NOTE: Customers can also qualify for participation in this GR project at no cost if Telcordia
has realized over $40M in revenue from the Customer for the time frame of 2/1/10 - 1/31/11.
A GR Participation Agreement will still need to be signed, but there will be no incremental fees
for participation. This offer is applicable to this GR-487-CORE, Issue 4, only, and is not valid
on future issues of this GR or other GRs, unless specifically stated in an IFP. If you would
like to take advantage of this special qualification for this GR effort, please contact
Carol St. Jacques at + 1.732.699.6595 or at cstjacqu@telcordia.com.
Document Proposed: GR-902-CORE, Issue 2 — Generic Requirements for
Handholes and Other Below-Ground, Non-Concrete Splice
Vaults
Project Manager: Ernie Gallo, + 1.732.699.3312
E-mail: egallo@telcordia.com
Projected Start Date: December 2011 (subject to contracted participation level)
Estimated Completion: May 2012
Est. Project Fee: $15,000 (includes Enterprise License for GR-902, Issue 2)
Project Description: Telcordia proposes that a new issue (Issue 2) of GR-902 be developed
with industry input and participation.
GR-902 defines the generic requirements for a non-concrete splice closure, which is a partially
buried closure that provides ready access to telecommunications distribution points. It may be
constructed of metallic or nonmetallic materials. Buried distribution cable, which may be
multipair cable or coaxial cable, enters the closure through its buried base. Incoming cables
are then terminated to a terminal block or coaxial tap.
GR-902 was last released in January of 2005, and Telcordia proposes the update be developed
to address current industry issues and to consider the following:
Correlate the GR to TIER ratings of the Federal Highway Authority, State Department of
Transportation, and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
to make GR-902 more relevant and useful
Provide more explicit requirements for the use of pull boxes and node sites in FTTx
networks, which are aimed at the broadband market and local community who desire to
have telecom plant out of sight and below ground level
Introduce a new handhole/vault category and new functional criteria for use in joint
(power + communications) duct-conduit runs, which may have applications in congested
areas within urban environments to serve femtocells and Distributed Antenna System
(DAS) wireless networks.