Application
Field officers, technicians or technical supervisors from carriers, contractors or other service providers apply the skills and knowledge in this unit. This unit applies to a switching, transmission or radio network and the various transmission paths including cable, optical fibre, radio, microwave and satellite that support it. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1. Evaluate system needs | 1.1. Determine need for additional electronic equipment from telecommunications project plan 1.2. Specify purpose of equipment and ascertain need for additional network equipment with customer |
2. Analyse network and select design option | 2.1. Analyse possible impacts on network and network service requirements 2.2. Generate options for system design that are realistic for the enterprise and network 2.3. Evaluate and select preferred option based on enterprise business strategy outcomes, service policy and compliance with relevant legislation 2.4. Discuss and confirm selected option with customer |
3. Assess system compatibility | 3.1. Assess compatibility of each equipment unit and intended use with other installed units from system plans, equipment manuals, installation environment and industry knowledge 3.2. Modify design accordingly 3.3. Provide customer with design and obtain sign off |
Required Skills
Required skills |
communication skills to liaise with customers and technical staff to ensure requirements are known and can be met within timeframes literacy skills to interpret technical specifications and related documentation planning and organisational skills to plan and prioritise own work problem solving skills to: deal with unexpected situations on the basis of safety and specified work outcomes manage unexpected configuration anomalies technical skills to: analyse the impact of additional telecommunications equipment on the network assess compatibility between existing and additional equipment determine customer requirements and a design specification identify the technical requirements, constraints and manageability issues for a given customer network requirement |
Required knowledge |
electrical and optical properties to be measured integration, compatibility and interoperability of equipment legislation and licensing relevant to installation of telecommunications equipment including spectrum allocation power requirements and electrical safety transmission type and signals that may be encountered |
Evidence Required
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Overview of assessment | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | Evidence of the ability to: evaluate system need for additional electronic equipment and design options analyse network and design systems assess system compatibility. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | Assessment must ensure: telecommunications network where additional equipment design may be conducted relevant regulatory and equipment documentation that impact on electronic system design. |
Method of assessment | A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit: direct observation of the candidate undertaking network analysis and design review of reports completed by the candidate oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of types of systems and application and compatibility issues. |
Guidance information for assessment | Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended. Aboriginal people and other people from a non-English speaking background may have second language issues. Access must be provided to appropriate learning and assessment support when required. Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate, and appropriate to the oral communication skill level, and language and literacy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed. In all cases where practical assessment is used it will be combined with targeted questioning to assess required knowledge. Questioning techniques should not require language, literacy and numeracy skills beyond those required in this unit of competency. Where applicable, physical resources should include equipment modified for people with special needs. |
Range Statement
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. | |
Determine need may include: | customer requirements existing infrastructure network growth forecasts test results. |
Additional electronic equipment may include: | radio networks: fixed mobile switching various transmission paths: cable microwave optical fibre radio satellite transmission. |
Customer may include: | a carrier customer representative internal organisational customer. |
Possible impacts may relate to: | age and construction building facility location distances between units and installations impacts on existing services and customers need for outages ownership of installation site site type. |
Compatibility may relate to: | electrical interfaces protocols. |
Sectors
Unit sector | Telecommunications |
Competency Field
Telecommunications networks engineering |
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Refer to Unit Descriptor