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TIA Publishes New Radio Communications Equipment Standard TIA-902.CAAB

Contact:	Sharon Grace	For Immediate Release
	(703) 907-7721 sgrace@tiaonline.org	June 23, 2003

Arlington, Va. -- The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has published a new standard, "Radio Communications Performance Recommendations -- Public Safety Wideband Equipment -- Scalable Adaptive Modulation (SAM)," TIA-902.CAAB. This standard provides definition, methods of measurements and performance standards for radio equipment used in the private (dispatch) land mobile services that employ scalable adaptive modulation, for transmission and receptions of data using digital techniques, with or without encryption, with a frequency of 1 GHz or less. The definition and description of the system in which this equipment operates is given in the document TIA/EIA-902.A. The TIA Wide Air Interface Standard (TIA-902.CAAB) defines the requirements of both the physical layer and data link layer in the OSI reference model for the radio interface in which this equipment operates. Use of this standard is encouraged for any application of similar equipment with SAM modulation, and may be applicable to equipment other than those listed above. However, this standard is not intended to cover transceiver equipment employing any or all modulation types or access methods. Therefore, the applicability of this document to digital transceiver equipment other than that called out in the scope must be carefully examined. TIA-902.CAAB was created by TIA TR-8.6 Subcommittee on Equipment Performance Recommendations and released February 2003. To obtain copies of the document, please contact Global Engineering Documents at (800) 854-7179 or at http://global.ihs.com.

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P.A. Release 03-88/06.23.03