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Telcordia DIGEST of Technical Information

Your Source for Generic Requirements and Other Information

The Telcordia DIGEST of Technical Information is a monthly publication that provides the telecommunications industry with informative and timely information, including Telcordia Generic Requirements (GR) work projects that are open for industry participation, interesting feature articles, recent technical-document releases, notices to the industry, and other informative items. Telcordia Generic Requirements documents (GRs) are developed by telecommunications engineers and other technical specialists who are familiar with the stringent parameters of requirements work and understand the needs of local exchange carriers and the telecom industry. We invite your company's participation in Telcordia GR work projects.

More information on TELCORDIA GR DOCUMENTS can be found here including status of GR development projects, the purpose of Telcordia GRs, and the benefits of industry participation.

Each monthly DIGEST is available in PDF format from this Web site. SUBSCRIBE and / or DOWNLOAD monthly issues of the DIGEST here. You may also access many of the DIGEST sections in HTML format from the left menu.

Highlights of the May 2008 DIGEST

The May 2008 issue of the DIGEST of Technical Information is now available. This issue contains a feature article titled Meeting Customers' Expectations for New Service. Read about a new solution from Telcordia designed to enable service providers to achieve online success.

No new document releases are announced in this issue.

Click on "Latest Documents" from this Web page to view the abstracts of recently released Telcordia GRs and nonproprietary SRs that were announced in previous DIGEST issues.

Nineteen (19) Invitations to Participate in proposed Telcordia GR work projects are extended to the industry in this issue, beginning on page 19:

  • GR-1188-CORE, Issue 3 — LSSGR: CLASS(SM) Feature: Calling Name Delivery Generic Requirements (FSD 01-02-1070) and GR-3103-CORE, Issue 4 — Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Interface Specification for Line Information Database (LIDB)
  • New GR — Consolidation and Updating of Metallic Cable Documents
  • New GR — Generic Requirements for High Density Feeder Distribution Interconnection and Integrated Voltage Protection (IVP)
  • GR-1209-CORE, Issue 4 — Generic Requirements for Passive Optical Components, and GR-1221-CORE, Issue 3 — Generic Reliability Assurance Requirements for Passive Optical Components
  • GR-909-CORE, Issue 3 — Generic Criteria for Fiber in the Loop Systems
  • GR-1275-CORE, Issue 10 — Central Office/Network Environment Equipment Installation/Removal Generic Requirements, and GR-1502-CORE, Issue 7 — Central Office/Network Environment Detail Engineering Generic Requirements
  • GR-2930-CORE, Issue 2 — Network Equipment Building System (NEBSTM) Raised Floor Generic Requirements for Network and Data Centers
  • GR-4228-CORE, Issue 1 — VRLA Battery String Certification Levels Based on Requirements for Safety and Performance
  • GR-347-CORE, Issue 3 — Generic Requirements for Telecommunications Power Cable
  • GR-1217-CORE, Issue 2 — Generic Requirements for Separable Electrical Connectors Used in Telecommunications Hardware
  • GR-1100-CORE, Issue 13 — Billing Automatic Message Accounting Format (BAF) Generic Requirements
  • GR-3058-CORE, Issue 6 — Voice over Packet (VoP): Next Generation Network (NGN) Accounting Management Generic Requirements
  • New GR — Generic Requirements for Hardened Multi-Fiber Optical Connectors (HMFOCs)
  • GR-199-CORE, Issue 7 — TL1 Memory Administration Messages
  • GR-833-CORE, Issue 7 — TL1 Network Element and Transport Surveillance Messages
  • GR-835-CORE, Issue 1 — TL1 Network Element and Network System Security Administration Messages
  • New GR — Generic Requirements on Element Management Systems (EMSs)
  • New GR — Operations Generic Requirements on Network Elements Supporting IPTV
  • New GR — EMS/NMS Interface Generic Requirements for Managing Ethernet-Based Networks

Please contact the project manager identified within each Invitation for more information on how your company can participate in the development of any, or all, of these potential Telcordia GR work projects.

The DIGEST PLUS

Telcordia also offers a printed publication — the DIGEST PLUS, which includes a quarterly compilation of the new document releases that appeared in the DIGEST, as well as informative feature articles, and other items of interest to the telecommunications industry. Details of this complimentary publication are in this month's DIGEST. For more information about the DIGEST PLUS, or to subscribe online, click here.

Comments About the DIGEST

Any comments or questions regarding the DIGEST content, suggested enhancements, or ideas for future articles are welcomed and may be sent via e-mail to digest@telcordia.com. Written comments can be sent via postal mail to:

Christine Golombos
Editor, DIGEST of Technical Information
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1J218
Piscataway, NJ 08854-4182

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