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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards may relate to: | Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) standards and codes AS Communications Cabling Manual (CCM) Volume 1 AS/NZS 3000:2007 AS/NZS 3080:2003 AS/NZS 3084:2003 AS/NZS 3085.1:2004 AS/NZS IEC 61935.1:2006 AS/NZS IEC 61935.2:2006 AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14763.3:2007 AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15018:2005 AS/NZS ISO/IEC 24702:2007 Australian building codes and regulations cabling security codes and regulations compliance with appropriate Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) technical standard requirements for underground, aerial, Category 5, 6, 6A, 7 or 7A, and unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) Environmental Protection Acts fire regulations noise abatement and heritage legislation OHS relevant international standards technical standards AS/ACIF S008:2006 and AS/ACIF S009:2006 Trade Practices Act. |
Work order may include: | authority to proceed with change to the network list of activities to be undertaken schedule of activities. |
Relevant personnel may include: | carrier or service provider staff electrical contractor equipment manufacturer equipment supplier external customer on site operation staff. |
Likely effects may include: | congestion drop out excessive latency limited coverage loss of coverage loss of service poor grade of service (GoS) poor signal quality routing problems. |
Network may include: | cellular mobile networks data and voice IP network national wide area networks (WAN) optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks public switched telephone network (PSTN). |
Impact may include: | disruption of service to residential customers intermittent performance loss of service and revenue to an enterprise. |
Customers may include: | building owner communications consultant contractor to a major supplier end users equipment owner householder operations staff. |
Network engineering strategies may include: | provision of redundant path rerouting of traffic supply of temporary equipment to maintain minimal services. |
Outages may include: | loss of service to customers due to a network disruption planned outage in the case of network upgrade unplanned outage in relation to fault. |
Network Operations Centre may include: | engineering unit within a carrier responsible for: controlling the network coordinating repairs or changes to the network monitoring the network performing diagnostic tests. |
Enterprise practice may include: | procedures for implementing installation procedures for implementing maintenance reporting tasks. |
OHS and environmental requirements may relate to: | decommissioning and isolating worksite and lines prior to commencement gas and other hazard detection equipment identifying other services, including power and gas safety equipment: flashing lights safety barriers trench guards warning signs and tapes witches hats safe working practices, such as the safe use and handling of: asbestos chemicals materials tools and equipment work platforms special access requirements suitable light and ventilation environmental considerations: clean-up protection noise, dust and clean-up management stormwater protection waste management. |
Customer traffic may include: | analog or digital forms of: data image voice. |
Integration testing may include: | compatibility interface units interoperability. |
Performance test may include: | bandwidth blocking call rate congestion distortion drop out rate functionality interference latency network tests optical transmission tests packet loss rate quality of service (QoS) radio transmission test recovery rate redundancy signal to noise ratio switching tests transmission tests transmission tests transmitted power measurements upload and download rate. |
Manufacturer's specifications may include: | electrical environmental parameters mechanical regulatory. |
Acceptance testing may include: | testing equipment following major upgrade testing newly installed equipment. |
Escalate may include: | greater involvement from the NOC specialist personnel requesting vendor specialist technical support. |
Quality assurance may include: | acting on logs, reports and other data to guide ongoing quality improvements reporting on installation or maintenance activities updating logs. |
Network stability may include: | alarm monitoring congestion activity report fault incidence report network management report traffic flow measurements. |