Notes:
1. Components, lasers, test and production equipment, materials and software therefor, which are specially designed for telecommunications equipment or systems are described in this Category.
2. Digital computers, related equipment or software, when essential for the operation and support of telecommunications equipment specified in or of a type described in this Category, are regarded as specially designed components, provided they are the standard models customarily supplied by the manufacturer. This includes operation, administration, maintenance, engineering or billing computer systems.
5A1 Equipment, Assemblies and Components
5A001 a. Any type of telecommunications equipment having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:
1.Specially designed to withstand transitory electronic effects or electromagnetic pulse arising from a nuclear explosion;
2.Specially hardened to withstand gamma, neutron or ion radiation;
3.Specially designed to operate outside the temperature range from 218 K (-55°C) to 397 K (124°C);
Note: Sub-head a.3 of this entry applies only to electronic equipment.
Note: Sub-heads a.2. and a.3. of this entry do not apply to equipment on board satellites.
b.Telecommunication transmission equipment or systems, and specially designed components and accessories therefor, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:
Note: Telecommunication transmission equipment:
Categorised as follows, or combinations thereof:
Radio equipment (e.g., transmitters, receivers and transceivers);
Line terminating equipment;
Intermediate amplifier equipment;
Repeater equipment;
Regenerator equipment;
Translation encoders (transcoders);
Multiplex equipment (statistical multiplex included);
Modulators/demodulators (modems);
Transmultiplex equipment (see CCITT Recommendation G.701);
Stored programme controlled digital crossconnection equipment;
Gateways and bridges;
Media access units; and
Designed for use in single or multi-channel communication via:
Wire (line);
Coaxial cable;
Optical fibre cable;
Electromagnetic radiation;
Underwater acoustic wave propagation.
1.Employing digital techniques, including digital processing of analogue signals, and designed to operate at a digital transfer rate at the highest multiplex level exceeding 45 Mbit/s or a total digital transfer rate exceeding 90 Mbit/s;
Note: Sub-head b.1. of this entry does not specify equipment specially designed to be integrated and operated in any satellite system for civil use.
2.Being stored programme controlled digital cross connect equipment with a digital transfer rate exceeding 8.5 Mbit/s per port;
3.Being equipment containing:
a.Modems using the bandwidth of one voice channel with a data signalling rate exceeding 28,800 bit/s;
b.Communication channel controllers with a digital output having a data signalling rate exceeding 2.1 Mbit/s per channel; or
c.Network access controllers and their related common medium having a digital transfer rate exceeding 156 Mbit/s;
Note: Equipment, not elsewhere specified, containing a network access controller, cannot have any type of telecommunications interface;
except:
Those described in, but not specified in, sub-head b.3. of this entry.
4.Employing a laser and having any of the following characteristics:
a.A transmission wavelength exceeding 1,000 nm;
b.Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 45 MHz;
c.Employing coherent optical transmission or coherent optical detection techniques (also called optical heterodyne or homodyne techniques);
d.Employing wavelength division multiplexing techniques; or
e.Performing optical amplification;
5.Being radio equipment operating at input or output frequencies exceeding:
a.31 GHz for satellite-earth station applications;
b.26.5 GHz for other applications;
Note: Sub-head b.5.b. of this entry does not specify equipment for civil use conforming with an International Telecommmunications Union (ITU) allocated band between 26.5 and 31 GHz.
6.Being radio equipment:
a.Employing quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) techniques above level 4 if the total digital transfer rate exceeds 8.5 Mbit/s;
b.Employing quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) techniques above level 16 if the total digital transfer rate is equal to or less than 8.5 Mbit/s; or
c.Employing other digital modulation techniques and having a spectral efficiency exceeding 3 bit/sec/Hz;
Note:
1.Sub-head b.6. of this entry does not specify equipment specially designed to be integrated and operated in any satellite system for civil use.
2.Sub-head b.6. of this entry does not specify radio relay equipment for operation in an International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) allocated band:
a.
1.Not exceeding 960 MHz; or
2.With a total digital transfer rate not exceeding 8.5 Mbit/s; and
b.Having a spectral efficiency not exceeding 4 bit/sec/Hz.
7.Being radio equipment operating in the 1.5 to 87.5 MHz band and having either of the following characteristics:
a.
1.Automatically predicting and selecting frequencies and total digital transfer rates per channel to optimize the transmission; and
2.Incorporating a linear power amplifier configuration having a capability to support multiple signals simultaneously at an output power of 1 kW or more in the 1.5 to 30 MHz frequency range or 250 W or more in the 30 to 87.5 MHz frequency range, over an instantaneous bandwidth of one octave or more and with an output harmonic and distortion content of better than -80 dB; or
b.Incorporating adaptive techniques providing more than 15 dB suppression of an interfering signal;
8.Being radio equipment employing spread spectrum or frequency agility (frequency hopping) techniques having either of the following characteristics:
a.User programmable spreading codes; or
b.A total transmitted bandwidth which is 100 or more times the bandwidth of any one information channel and in excess of 50 kHz;
9.Being digitally controlled radio receivers having more than 1,000 channels, which:
a.Search or scan automatically a part of the electromagnetic spectrum;
b.Identify the received signals or the type of transmitter; and
c.Have a frequency switching time of less than 1 ms;
10.Providing functions of digital signal processing as follows:
a.Voice coding at rates of less than 2,400 bit/s;
b.Employing circuitry which incorporates user-accessible programmability of digital signal processing circuits exceeding the limits of head b. of entry 4A003;
11.Being underwater communications systems having any of the following characteristics:
a.An acoustic carrier frequency outside the range from 20 to 60 kHz;
b.Using an electromagnetic carrier frequency below 30 kHz; or
c.Using electronic beam steering techniques;
c.Stored programme controlled switching equipment and related signalling systems, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features, and specially designed components and accessories therefor;
Note: Statistical multiplexers with digital input and digital output which provide switching are treated as stored programme controlled switches.
1.Common channel signalling;
Note: Signalling systems in which the signalling channel is carried in and refers to no more than 32 multiplexed channels forming a trunk line of no more than 2.1 Mbit/s, and in which the signalling information is carried in a fixed, time division multiplexed channel without the use of labelled messages, are not considered to be common channel signalling systems.
2.Containing Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) functions and having either of the following:
a.Switch-terminal (e.g., subscriber line) interfaces with a digital transfer rate at the highest multiplex level exceeding 192,000 bit/s, including the associated signalling channel (e.g., 2B+D); or
b.The capability that a signalling message received by a switch on a given channel that is related to a communication on another channel may be passed through to another switch;
Note: Sub-head c.2. of this entry does not include:
1.The evaluation and appropriate actions taken by the receiving switch;
2.Unrelated user message traffic on a D channel of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).
3.Multi-level priority and pre-emption for circuit switching;
Note: Sub-head c.3. of this entry does not specify single-level call pre-emption.
4.Dynamic adaptive routing;
5.Routing or switching of datagram packets;
except:
When applied to networks using only network access controllers or to network access controllers themselves;
6.Routing or switching of fast select packets;
except:
When applied to networks using only network access controllers or to network access controllers themselves;
7.Designed for automatic hand-off of cellular radio calls to other cellular switches or for automatic connection to a centralized subscriber data base common to more than one switch;
8.Being packet switches, circuit switches and routers with ports or lines exceeding either:
a.A data signalling rate of 64,000 bit/s per channel for a communications channel controller; or
Note: Sub-head c.8.a. of this entry does not include the multiplexing over a composite link of communications channels not specified in sub-head c.8.a.
b.A digital transfer rate of 33 Mbit/s for a network access controller and related common medium;
9.Optical switching;
10.Employing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) techniques;
11.Containing stored programme controlled digital crossconnect equipment with a digital transfer rate exceeding 8.5 Mbit/s per port;
d.Centralized network control having both of the following characteristics:
1.Receives data from the nodes; and
2.Processes these data in order to provide control of traffic not requiring operator decisions, thereby performing dynamic adaptive routing;
Note: Head d. of this entry does not include the characteristic of control of traffic as a function of predictable statistical traffic conditions.
e.Optical fibre communication cables, optical fibres and accessories, as follows:
1.Optical fibres or cables of more than 50 m in length having either of the following characteristics:
a.Designed for single mode operation; or
b.For optical fibres, capable of withstanding a Proof Test tensile stress of 2 × 109 N/m2 or more;
Note: Proof Test: On-line or off-line production screen testing that dynamically applies a prescribed tensile stress over a 0.5 to 3 m length of fibre at a running rate of 2 to 5 m/s while passing between capstans approximately 150 mm in diameter. The ambient temperature is a nominal 293 K (20°C) and relative humidity 40%.
2.Optical fibre cables and accessories designed for underwater use(1);
f.Phased array antennae, operating above 10.5 GHz, containing active elements and distributed components, and designed to permit electronic control of beam shaping and pointing.
Note: Head f. of this entry does not specify landing systems with instruments meeting International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards (microwave landing systems (MLS)), published by ICAO in Annex 10 of Volume 1.
5A101 Telemetering and telecontrol equipment usable for missiles.
Note: This entry does not specify equipment specially designed to be used for remote control of model planes, boats or vehicles and having an electric field strength of not more than 200 microvolts per metre at a distance of 500 m.
5A990 The export of goods specified in this entry is prohibited to any destination in Iran, Iraq or Libya.
Tropospheric scatter communication equipment using analogue or digital modulation techniques.
5B1 Test, Inspection and Production Equipment
5B001 a. Equipment and specially designed components and accessories therefor, specially designed for:
1.Development of equipment, materials, functions or features specified in entries 5A001, 5B001, 5C001, 5D001 or 5E001, including measuring or test equipment;
2.Production of equipment, materials, functions or features specified in entries 5A001, 5B001, 5C001, 5D001 or 5E001, including measuring, test or repair equipment;
3.Use of equipment, materials, functions or features exceeding any of the least stringent export control requirements specified in entries 5A001, 5B001, 5C001, 5D001 or 5E001, including measuring, test or repair equipment;
Note: Head a. of this entry does not specify optical fibres and optical fibre preform characterisation equipment not using semiconductor lasers.
b.Other equipment as follows:
1.Bit error rate (BER) test equipment designed or modified to test the equipment specified in sub-head b.1. of entry 5A001;
2.Data communication protocol analyzers, testers and simulators specially designed for functions specified in entry 5A001;
3.Stand alone stored programme controlled radio transmission media simulators/channel estimators specially designed for testing equipment specified in sub-head b.5. of entry 5A001.
5C1 Materials
5C001 Preforms of glass or of any other material optimized for the manufacture of optical fibres specified in head e. of entry 5A001.
5D1 Software(2)
5D001 a. Software specially designed or modified for the development, production or use of goods specified in entries 5A001, 5B001 or 5C001;
b.Software specially designed or modified to support technology specified in entry 5E001;
c.Specific software as follows:
1.Generic software, other than in machine-executable form, specially designed or modified for the use of stored programme controlled digital switching equipment or systems;
2.Software, other than in machine-executable form, specially designed or modified for the use of digital cellular radio equipment or systems;
3.Software specially designed or modified to provide characteristics, functions or features of equipment specified in entries 5A001 or 5B001;
4.Software which provides the capability of recovering source code of telecommunications software specified in this Category;
5.Software specially designed for the development or production of software specified in this entry.
5E1 Technology
5E001 a. Technology required for the development, production or use (excluding operation) of goods specified in entries 5A001, 5B001, 5C001 or 5D001;
b.Specific technologies, as follows:
1.Required technology for the development or production of telecommunications equipment specially designed to be used on board satellites;
2.Technology for the development or use of laser communication techniques with the capability of automatically acquiring and tracking signals and maintaining communications through exoatmosphere or sub-surface (water) media;
3.Technology for the processing and application of coatings to optical fibre specially designed to make it suitable for underwater use;
4.Technology for the development or production of equipment employing Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) or Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) techniques;
5.Technology for the development or production of switch fabric exceeding 64,000 bit/s per information channel other than for digital cross connect integrated in the switch;
6.Technology for the development or production of centralized network control;
7.Technology for the development or production of digital cellular radio systems;
8.Technology for the development or production of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN);
9.Technology for the development of QAM techniques, for radio equipment, above level 4.
5E101 Technology required for the development, production or use of goods specified in entry 5A101.
5E990 The export of goods specified in this entry is prohibited to any destination in Iran, Iraq or Libya.
Technology required for the development, production or use of goods specified in entry 5A990.
For fibre-optic hull penetrators or connectors, see head c.of entry 8A002.
See also sub-Categories 4D and 6D for software for signal processing.