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Hi Steve, I don't have experience with those tests in particular but I took some telecommunications equipment (ISDN based video conferencing equipment) my company was developing and manufacturing in Taiwan through a range of tests in Australia some years ago. We were obliged to outsource the testing, which was predominantly focused on emissions levels and network-facing electrical characteristics, to a dedicated organisation that performs these types of tests regularly. I remember vaguely that there were certain international tests (US / European?) that could streamline validation of equipment for import in to Australia, though I can't remember exactly which. Perhaps you should look up what kind of testing your interface hardware has passed (check the back of the documentation, stickers on the hardware, or contact the manufacturer and/or importer). It's likely that a few tests have already been made. In Australia, my understanding is that there are legal requirements for importers to show this documentation at the time of import, and I'd imagine it's quite similar in most developed countries. In terms of more rigorous higher level firmware-level testing for fax equipment, I have no experience, but would be surprised if many countries had requirements in this area. If tests are not legally required, then the likelihood that most equipment is ever tested at this level is probably quite low. Also, due to the nature of electronics manufacturing, it's quite likely that most manufacturers re-use firmware in different products or product-lines over time. A fair portion of these will probably also be licensing third-party firmware. What all this means is that repeatedly testing to a rigorous level what amounts to essentially 'the same' firmware, over and over again as it is released in slightly different products, is something that neither manufacturers nor regulators probably have much interest in doing. Note that the above just represents my experience with other telecommunications products - I am no expert in faxing. Regards, Walter ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx < /dev/null *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@xxxxxxxxx*