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Telecommunications Technical Standard (Surge Protective Devices for Telecommunication Applications - AS / NZS 4117) 2015 - Australian Government

Description

You are required to comply with this technical standard if you manufacture, supply or modify individual stand-alone surge protective devices that are designed or intended to be:

  • used to suppress the effect of transient overvoltage
  • connected between telecommunications conductors or between a telecommunication conductor and the protective earth system.

The purpose of this technical standard is to help protect the:

  • integrity of a telecommunications network or a facility
  • health and safety of people who operate, work on, use or may be affected by the operation of a telecommunications network or facility.

It is also intended to ensure that customer equipment:

  • can be used to give access to an emergency call service
  • is interoperable with a telecommunications network.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Act(s) name

Telecommunications Act 1997 Australian Government

Administering agency

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Communications Infrastructure

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