ANSI C63.10 2020 Published

 

The American National Standard of Procedures for Compliance Testing of Unlicensed Wireless Devices, IEEE/ANSI C63.10 2020, has been published.

ANSI C63.10 is the U.S. consensus standard covering methods and instrumentation and test facilities requirements for measurement of radio frequency (RF) signals and noise emitted from unlicensed wireless devices (also called unlicensed transmitters, intentional radiators, and license-exempt transmitters) operating in the frequency range 9 kHz to 231 GHz.

At the time of this 2020 version publication, January 29, 2021, the version accepted by the FCC for wireless certification remains ANSI C63.10 2013, effective from July 13, 2016. The new version must first be incorporated by reference within the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 47, §2.910. Publication will often come with a reasonable transition period as defined in §2.950.

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IEEE/ANSI C63.10-2020

History of C3.10

Subpart J—Equipment Authorization Procedures

FCC rules update for Part 15 UPCS devices

Just published in the federal register, the Federal Communications Commission has updated part 15, specifically 15.31 on the measurement standards to be used for Unlicensed Personal Communications Service (UPCS) under part 15, subpart D.

ANSI C63.17 2013 replaces the 2006 version of the standard.

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Federal Register Post for January 21, 2015

Opportunity for innovative cordless broadband use - FCC modifies Part 15

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In a report and order released today, the FCC is amending part 15 subpart D covering Unlicensed Personal Communications Service devices (UPCS band). The introduction of the R&O is as follows;

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By this action, we modify Part 15 of the rules governing the operation of Unlicensed Personal Communications Service (UPCS) devices in the 1920-1930 MHz frequency band (UPCS band) to promote more efficient use of the UPCS band and to facilitate the introduction of a new generation of unlicensed devices capable of supporting broadband connectivity using Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) technology. Specifically, we eliminate the least-interfered channel monitoring threshold for UPCS devices and reduce the number of duplex system access channels that a UPCS device must define and monitor from 40 to 20 channels in order to use the least-interfered channel access method.  These changes will provide UPCS devices, particularly those designed to transmit with wider bandwidths, access to more usable channels (i.e., combined time and spectrum windows) than are permitted under the existing rules and unleash innovative cordless broadband technologies in the UPCS band, while limiting the potential for causing interference to other devices.  We also modify the rules to remove outdated provisions and to make other minor updates.

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ET Docket No. 10-97