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[null,"RATING SCALE TO BE UTILISED DURING THE BID EVALUATION PROCESS"]
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[null,"Rating","Definition","Score"]
[null,"Full Compliance (FC)","This means that the Tenderer’s Proposal  meet the requirements in the Tender Documents.",5]
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[null,"Good","Satisfies the requirement with minor additional benefits. Above average demonstration by the supplier of the relevant ability, understanding, experience, skills, resource and quality measures required to provide the goods / services. Response identifies factors that will offer potential added value, with supporting evidence.",4]
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[null,"Acceptable","Satisfies the requirement. Demonstration by the supplier of the relevant ability, understanding, experience, skills, resource, and quality measures required to provide the goods / services, with supporting evidence.",3]
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[null,"Minor Reservations","Satisfies the requirement with minor reservations. Some minor reservations of the supplier’s relevant ability, understanding, experience, skills, resource and quality measures required to provide the goods / services, with little or no supporting evidence.",2]
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[null,"Serious Reservations","Satisfies the requirement with major reservations. Considerable reservations of the supplier’s relevant ability, understanding, experience, skills, resource and quality measures required to provide the goods / services, with little or no supporting evidence.",1]
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[null,"Unacceptable","Does not meet the requirement. Does not comply and/or insufficient information provided to demonstrate that the supplier has the ability, understanding, experience, skills, resource & quality measures required to provide the goods / services, with little or no supporting evidence.",0]

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[null,"Technical Evaluation Criteria"]
[null,"Item","Compliance","Scoring","Weighting"]
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[null,"Mandatory Requirements"]
[null,"The system shall support a minimum of 40 channels beginning of Life (BoL) configuration"]
[null,"The system shall support Colourless, Directionless, Contentionless and Gridless (CG/CDG/CDCG) Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) DWDM equipment "]
[null,"The system shall support  Optical Transport Network (OTN) with Protection and Restoration using Layer 1 – Automatic Switching Optical Networks/Generic Multiprotocol Layer Switching (ASON/GMPLS)."]
[null,"The system shall support Optical Line Amplifier/Repeater (OLA/OLR) equipment along with Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) Facility."]
[null,"The system shall support   Network Management System (NMS) Server Hardware (Active and Standby) configuration"]
[null,"The system shall support NMS client hardware."]
[null,"The system shall support Portable Terminal for O&M of DWDM and OTN Equipment."]
[null,"Only equipment manufactured to recognised relevant international standards, and complying with the relevant ITU-T, IEEE, ETSI performance recommendations and reports, shall be accepted."]
[null,"The MTBF figures (in years) of all offered equipment shall be stated.  For modular systems the supplier shall specify the MTBF figures for each replaceable component.  The assumed environmental conditions in the given MTBF figures shall also be specified.            "]
[null,"The metric system shall be used in all technical documentation."]
[null,"The equipment shall implement 100Gbps OR 200Gbps on the line side and OTU4/100GbE, OTU2/10GbE and 1GE on client side."]
[null,"The DWDM network shall be based on a minimum of 100Gbps line per channel with Flexible wavelength grid."]
[null,"Equipment should support multiple protection architecture based on OCH/OMS or OTS with optical switching module or OTN switch, having protection switching achieved within 50ms."]
[null,"The Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC) channel and service channel must be separated and OSC channel shall not be amplified."]
[null,"The line card (Transponder) must be tunable type and can be tuned to any of 80 or more channels on standard and/or offset ITU-grid within the full C-Band spectrum."]
[null,"The DWDM system shall support Remote NMS Reconfiguration having at least 80 Och reconfiguration with access to all channels and capable of switching between common port and switched ports."]
[null,"The optical equipment should be able to cater for the required link Budget (total loss of cable for each span) along with 3 dB End of Life (EOL) margin for each span."]
[null,"The DWDM system shall be in-service upgradeable from one wavelength up to its maximum wavelength capacity."]
[null,"The DWDM system shall support Automatic Power Equalization (APE). The system shall be capable of automatically adjusting power per channel to its optimum value, if and when channels are added or removed without the need for manual adjustment."]
[null,"The DWDM system shall support in built OTDR functionality and be able to measure fibre parameters without impacting traffic while DWDM system is in service."]
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[null,"Generic Requirements ",null,null,{"v":20,"d":"20.00"}]
[null,"The DWDM system shall have the modularity and scalability of at least 80 Ch system architecture for Point-to-Point, ring and mesh network application."]
[null,"The devices are capable of being configured to any type of DWDM systems i.e., OTU, OADM, OLA etc. and associated with Elements Management System (EMS) and Network Management System (NMS)."]
[null,"The equipment must support the WSS and implementation of GMPLS (RFC 3945) and/or ASON (ITU-T G.8080) for restoration requirement in the offered model and sub-rack. The GMPLS/ASON control plan is adopted in Optical Channel (Och) scenarios."]
[null,"ITU-T, ETSI and IEEE terminology shall be adhered to where applicable.     "]
[null,"For all equipment offered the supplier shall state their support and maintenance contract options, terms, costs and durations thereof.              "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the launch date and the planned manufacture discontinuation date for each piece of equipment offered.               "]
[null,"The duration of continuing support (repairs and supply of spares) for the equipment beyond the manufacture discontinuation date must be stated.              "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the frequency and budgetary costs for network element software upgrades, if any, over the next 5 years.  Actual planned dates should be stated if available.   "]
[null,"i)      Both technical and marketing brochures for all equipment offered shall be supplied with the response documentation to the enquiry.            "]
[null,"Technical handbooks giving detailed information about the systems on offer shall be provided for all equipment offered."]
[null,"The equipment must support the WSS and implementation of GMPLS (RFC 3945) and/or ASON (ITU-T G.8080) for restoration requirement in the offered model and sub-rack. The GMPLS/ASON control plan is adopted in Optical Channel (Och) scenarios."]
[null,"The equipment shall have a plan/concrete roadmap of inter-working with the IP/MPLS routers. The inter-working should be based on ITU-T, IETF, and OIF standards"]
[null,"The DWDM network shall be 400Gbps and 800Gbps per channel ready for future traffic capacity upgrade or expansion requirements."]
[null,"The line card (Transponder) must be able to sync fast enough so that effective switching time from main to protection path does not exceed 50ms. Service-level switching time must not exceed 50ms neither for line side protection switching nor for client-side protection switching."]
[null,"For proposals with 100Gbps/200Gbps service boards, pluggable coherent CFP/CFP2/CFP4 optical modules shall be used to facilitate subsequent maintenance, improve device integration, and reduce power consumption."]
[null,"The DWDM system shall support incremental equipping to align with the number of wavelengths transmitted, facilitating flexible and scalable 'pay-as-you-grow' configurations."]
[null,"System Requirements ",null,null,{"v":15,"d":"15.00"}]
[null,"Client Interface Requirements "]
[null,"STM-1 (optical)               "]
[null,"STM-4                    "]
[null,"STM-16"]
[null,"STM-64                    "]
[null,"OTH/MPLS-TP"]
[null,"OTU-1"]
[null,"OTU-2"]
[null,"OTU-4"]
[null,"Fast Ethernet/MPLS-TP/IP/FC"]
[null,"100BASE-TX "]
[null,"100BASE-FX  "]
[null,"100BASE-SX"]
[null,"Gigabit Ethernet/MPLS-TP/IP/FC: 1000BASE-"]
[null,"1000BASE-SX                "]
[null,"1000BASE-EX                "]
[null,"1000BASE-ZX                "]
[null,"10 Gigabit Ethernet/MPLS-TP/IP/FC                 "]
[null,"10GBASE-SR                "]
[null,"10GBASE-LR                "]
[null,"10GBASE-ER"]
[null,"Traffic cross connection requirements",null,null,{"v":10,"d":"10.00"}]
[null,"The system shall have a fully meshed backplane to support soft cross connection between all cards."]
[null,"The power supply, control, clock, and cross-connect boards of the bidding equipment shall be configured with 1+1 protection."]
[null,"The system shall support a minimum of 1 Terabits of traffic switching"]
[null,"The system configuration to support the requirement in (c) shall be provided."]
[null,"The maximum traffic switching shall be provided, and the upgrade path and process stated."]
[null,"The system shall support automatic switching for all services with use of Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) and traditional schemes."]
[null,"The supplier shall state additional automatic switching protocol supported by their system."]
[null,"The maximum transporting distance (reach of line card/transponder) needs to be sufficient to cover the Broadband Infraco longest path requirement within the NLD Single Mode Fibre (SMF) fibre network."]
[null,"Optical amplifiers such as pre-amplifier and booster can be used, if necessary. Optical amplifier needs to compensate the loss of optical power according to type of use."]
[null,"The system must support clock recovery and stamping based on NTP for Synchronization requirements."]
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[null,"Line Interface Requirements",null,null,{"v":10,"d":"10.00"}]
[null,"Support of ITU-T G.652d single-mode optical fibre is mandatory.       "]
[null,"The supplier shall state modulation schemes used to achieve the OUT-k line rates described in ITU-T G.709 recommendations."]
[null,"The supplier shall state highest line rate that their system can achieve. Details on how the line rate is achieved shall be provided."]
[null,"The supplier shall state whether the modulation schemes are user-configurable, i.e. adaptable modulation.  "]
[null,"The supplier shall state whether the modulation schemes software selectable per wavelength.                 "]
[null,"Compliance to ITU-T G.694.1 Spectral grids for WDM applications: DWDM Frequency Grid is mandatory. Any advancement from the standard ITU-T grid shall be stated and explained in detail.    "]
[null,"Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexing (ROADM) capability is mandatory."]
[null,"The supplier shall provide information of the architecture and capabilities of the ROADM, including capabilities of remote re-configurability, and colourless, directionless and contention-less multiplexing.   "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the minimum and maximum number of wavelengths that the equipment supports. A minimum of 40 channels is mandatory."]
[null,"The equipment shall support point-to-point, ring, star, and mesh topologies."]
[null,"The equipment shall be able to add or drop any wavelength of 100 Gbps or 200 Gbps at any access nodes."]
[null," The solution shall support automatic optical power management, auto levelling, and monitoring.  "]
[null,"The equipment shall be able to monitor the transmit and receive fibre strands and provide fibre traces similar to the traditional Spectrum Analyzer.               "]
[null,"The supplier shall describe the Forward Error Correction (FEC) used and its associated coding gain and overheads.                 "]
[null,"The supplier shall describe the maximum system reach without regeneration, with details of how the reach is achieved."]
[null,"The details required under (o) are: rate per channel, number of channels used (maximum), channels spacing, placement of repeaters, OSNR values for each span, type and description of signal amplification used for each span, the hop lengths, and the modulation scheme used per channel."]
[null,"The bidder's solution shall support 10 x STM-64 / 10GBE LAN PHY / 10GE WAN PHY signals mapped into ODU4."]
[null,"The bidder shall describe their solution for mapping 10GE LAN PHY/10GE WAN PHY to ODU-2."]
[null,"The proposed system shall comply with GFP mapping according to ITU-T G.7041 and the bidder shall describe its support to the following Ethernet encapsulation schemes referencing the offered 10G/100G Transponders/Muxponders as applicable. Moreover, the bidder shall clarify if the mapping of Ethernet to OTN is according to G.709 and if both GFP-F and GFP-T mapping options are available, emphasizing the benefits of the supported encapsulation scheme. 10 GbE into ODU2e in timing transparent manner"]
[null,"100GbE overhead processing shall conform to the IEEE802.3ba standard."]
[null,"Amplification  ",null,null,{"v":5,"d":"5.00"}]
[null," The supplier shall state the preferred optical amplifier technology:       "]
[null,"I.    Semi-Conductor Amplifiers (SOA).            "]
[null,"II.   Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifiers (EDFA).           "]
[null,"III.  Raman Amplifiers.                "]
[null,"IV.  Hybrid Amplifiers.                "]
[null,"Must have automatic gain equalization and automatic power control function"]
[null,"The equipment shall support a hop distance of 200km without a repeater. Parameters for ITU-T G652D shall be used."]
[null,"The supplier shall state the maximum hop distance, with and without amplification that is supported by the equipment as well as, the amplification technology used."]
[null,"N x 100/200 Gb/s DWDM system can support the function of line power dynamic adjustment which does not influence the regular working service."]
[null,"The equipment shall support in-service gain/tilt adjustment without interruption of service."]
[null,"The system shall support adding or removing channels without interrupting services."]
[null,"Optical Receiver Requirements ",null,null,{"v":5,"d":"5.00"}]
[null,"The supplier shall state the worst case minimum required Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (OSNR) for each transporter or muxponder provided.                    "]
[null,"The equipment shall support electronic dispersion compensation.      "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the maximum tolerable chromatic dispersion (pm/nm)   "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the maximum tolerable mean Differential Group delay measured in picoseconds (as related to polarisation mode dispersion (PMD))  "]
[null,"The system shall support the following optical supervisory channel parameters:"]
[null,"a. Must have separate optical supervisory channel."]
[null,"b. The wavelength of optical supervisory channel is 1510 nm or 1620nm ± 10nm."]
[null,"c. OSC transmit and receive power level measurement feature must be available as part of link performance monitoring functionality."]
[null,"d. The BER performance of optical supervisory channel should be in the range of 1.0Exp (-3) to 1.0Exp (-12)."]
[null,"e. The failure and replacement of filters units cannot affect the DCN communication via OSC."]
[null,"f. The failure of an OSC unit must be non-traffic affecting"]
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[null,"Power Requirements ",null,null,{"v":10,"d":"10.00"}]
[null,"All transmission equipment shall operate a nominal voltage of 48 V DC positive earthed supply (Range: 40.8 V to 57.6 V).           "]
[null," The Network Management System computers and workstations shall operate a nominal voltage of 230 V AC (Range: 216.2 V to 243.8 V), and nominal frequency 50Hz (range 47.5 Hz to 52.5 Hz), mains power.                "]
[null,"The equipment shall have reverse polarity protection.          "]
[null,"Power feed to sub-racks shall be arranged using DC circuit breakers so as to permit disconnection of any sub-rack without affecting supply to other connected sub-racks within the rack.  "]
[null,"The supplier shall state the DC power consumption of all offered equipment.  "]
[null,"Bidding equipment shall be environmental (site cooling) and power efficient to sustain South Africa power grid loadshedding effects."]
[null,"Environmental Requirements "]
[null,"All equipment shall operate as specified under the following environmental conditions: "]
[null,"Altitude:      0 - 2500 metres above sea level     "]
[null,"Temperature:     -5° C to +50° C         "]
[null,"The equipment shall fit into a standard cabinet as specified in Broadband Infraco Specification NE-NT-SP-0001: Cabinet Specification      "]
[null,"Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Security ",null,null,{"v":5,"d":"5.00"}]
[null,"The equipment shall have dual, redundant power inputs."]
[null,"The equipment shall have dual, redundant control modules/processors "]
[null,"The supplier shall provide details on how highly available and dependable links (such as 99.95% of time) may be achieved.   State the assumptions to be considered, as well at the calculation methodology used.                 "]
[null,"The system must support Optical Line Active/Protection switching using Optical Protection switch (OPS) or OTN switch"]
[null,"The bidding equipment shall use the OTN architecture and support multiple protection modes, such as optical line 1+1 protection, ODUk SNCP protection, intra-board 1+1 protection, and client 1+1 protection. The switching time must be less than 50 ms excluding detection time."]
[null,"Protection switch of all traffic shall be triggered on optical power monitoring and there shall be provision to set the LOS thresholds."]
[null,"Automatic switching shall be triggered by line faults (LOS, LOF etc.), OCh layer faults."]
[null,"The switching priority of Optical Line Active/Protection switching should support functions like Clear Switching, Forced Switching, Automatic Switching"]
[null,"Revertive and non-revertive protection operation must be provided."]
[null,"Provisionable protection \"generic hold-off function\" must be provided."]
[null,"The system should have a fault notification function in order to notify the external terminal equipment connecting to downstream system of fault occurred on the network"]
[null,"Requirements of Online System Performance Monitoring",null,null,{"v":5,"d":"5.00"}]
[null,"The DWDM equipment system shall support monitoring and estimating OSNR, measuring optical power of each channel. Operator shall be able to view the related data in NMS."]
[null,"The NMS must support optical impairment awareness of the user during trail creation and beyond. This means the user can see the actual measurements from the network and judge whether the optical trail’s OSNR meets Och signal performance requirements."]
[null,"The NMS shall support latency detection and map function."]
[null,"The NMS must support Graphical network usage chart – graphically show used/free resources over the whole network or drill-down into a link (lambda and sub-lambda levels). For links, it should be possible to display availability in case of network growth."]
[null,"For Restoration, all OADM sites must be able to Re-Route optical channels. Re-routing will be possible from any path to any path among all paths connected to that node."]
[null,"The system must be able to create consecutive restoration paths one after another at multiple fibre cut scenario, as long as a single path is available between the two nodes."]
[null,"The solution shall support and provide all type and capacity of CG/CDG/CDCG WSS (ROADM) to Re-Route any optical Channel from any path to any path between all paths connected to that node."]
[null,"The equipment must support the WSS and implementation of GMPLS (RFC 3945) and/or ASON (ITU-T G.8080) for restoration requirement in the offered model and sub-rack. The GMPLS/ASON control plan is adopted in Och scenarios."]
[null,"The control plane should support automatic discovery of the network topology and network resources."]
[null,"ASON/GMPLS should support the calculation of the source node route."]
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[null,"Network Management System ",null,null,{"v":10,"d":"10.00"}]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide details of the Network Management System for managing the equipment, including its Fault, Configuration Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) management of capabilities. "]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide hardware, software and third party software requirements for the network management system.                 "]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide management system requirements pertaining to the design of the Data Communications Network (DCN).            "]
[null,"A support and philosophy of hot standby configuration Network Management System (NMS) that automatically assumes control of the network elements in the event of failure of the main NMS, shall be provided.               "]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide information on support of hardware virtualisation and the requirements thereof.                    "]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide information on the north-bound interfaces supported by the management system (for example SNMP, CORBA).             "]
[null,"Suppliers shall provide information on the south-bound interfaces supported by the management system.             "]
[null,"NMS shall provide end-to-end visualization of wavelength paths."]
[null,"NMS shall provide end-to-end display of optical power measurements"]
[null,"NMS shall provide details for end-to-end wavelength channel provisioning and automated wavelength channel restoration."]
[null,"NMS shall provide visualization of OTDR report of fibre spans."]
[null,"NMS shall be connected to the proposed node equipment via IP interface."]
[null,"NMS should provide web-based client interface which enables anywhere management."]
[null,"NMS must support E2E service configuration, monitoring and performance checking."]
[null,"NMS should support quicker end-to-end provisioning of multi-service, including WDM circuit, SDH circuit, Ethernet circuit, and wavelength transport."]
[null,"NMS must support Ethernet OAM standards such as Y.1731"]
[null,"The NMS shall support remote downloading of all types of software and firmware required by DWDM and OTN equipment."]
[null,"The system shall support up-gradation of the software version preloaded in the system without loss of traffic or configuration."]
[null,"The NMS should have the capability of auto discovery of new NE."]
[null,"NMS shall provide the inventory details of all systems in the network up to card and SFP/XFP level with simple operation"]
[null,"NMS shall have report generation capacity such as Number of configured WDM circuits, SDH circuits, Ethernet paths, used and unused capacity of each Network Element etc."]
[null,"NMS shall provide Comprehensive network map (geographic and synoptic) of all the managed elements with a sophisticated alarm and traffic status display, real time alarm and traffic monitoring and giving a full access to all NE technical management features through a user-friendly interface."]
[null,"NMS shall support Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Telemanagement Forum (TMF), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) & REST Northbound Interface (NBI)"]
[null,"NMS shall have the capability for interworking with 3rd. Party SDN/Orchestration Solutions."]
[null,"NMS shall support Warm/Hot Standby Server Redundancy Solution (Max. 10 Sec. for Switching over between Main & Standby Servers)."]
[null,"In Warm/Hot Standby concept, NMS shall support automatic switch-over between Main Server and Standby Server (without user-intervention)."]
[null,"In Warm/Hot Standby concept, after switch-over to Standby server, all clients must be automatically switched-over to Standby Server (without user-intervention)."]
[null,"The NMS shall support network management of Optical and IP equipment from the bidder’s product portfolio."]
[null,"The NMS shall consist of Server and clients-based architecture."]
[null,"There will be provision to use Laptop/Notebook as Local Craft terminal (LCT) with appropriate software to connect DWDM and OTN equipment directly so that configuration and monitoring can be done from the Laptop. The LCT shall be able to connect all network elements on the same network (autonomous system) from a locally connected device"]
[null,"The NMS software must operate on Unix, Linux, and/or Windows-based operating systems. It should support multi-tasking and multi-user functionality. The software architecture offered should be open and configurable to accommodate future extensions. The quotation for the software license should cover the lifetime of the system."]
[null,"NMS should provide real time surveillance of network faults from the various alarm captured from the network elements."]
[null,"The NMS Should shall support the creation, configuration, provisioning and management of the traffic based on bandwidth and QoS requirements."]
[null,"The NMS shall provide service provisioning and changes reports for individual user or operator."]
[null,"The system shall be able to collect all standard quality parameters/indicators for WDM/OTN/SDH based part as well as for packet switch part in accordance with related standard. Data shall be available for online and offline data analysis. System shall provide tools to analyze and report quality parameters/indicators from network-to-network level (for each network service). It means that the system shall provide quality reports not only on node/element level but also on network service level."]
[null,"For Performance reports, all performance parameters to be monitored on 15min, hour, day, month and weekly basis. d) The receiving level monitoring is to be provided on a real time basis - both in a table as well as graphical view with time stamp."]
[null,"The system should be able to monitor service quality parameters regarding availability on a real-time basis."]
[null,"The system shall support monitoring of  packet drops in the case of Ethernet interface."]
[null,"Support to Management Information Base (MIB) access must be available for integration / real time utilization monitoring by third party systems i.e., Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) etc."]
[null,"Facilities should be available to backup stored log data and other data."]
[null,"System shall support following authentication and authorization mechanisms for security management on management system level as well as on element level:"]
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[null,"RADIUS or TACACS+ or Microsoft authentication protocol"]
[null,"Facilities shall be provided to ensure that only authorized users are allowed to access all or a certain part of the system. These include comprehensive log-in operator identities and password facilities. Low level protection for read only access to faults and performance information, Medium-level protection for access to configuration status and features and High-level protection for control of access to aforesaid clauses and to change in the configuration and control parameters. All log in and log out attempts with every work activity shall be logged in the security Log File of the NMS system."]
[null,"The NMS shall be capable of managing the national backbone network equipment, including DWDM, OTN, IP routers for (NLD and metro) and microwave equipment where applicable"]
[null,"Network Planning Tool",null,null,{"v":2.5,"d":"2.50"}]
[null,"Design and Planning Tools. "]
[null,"The supplier shall provide an optical link design tool, with the following minimum capabilities:"]
[null," I.   Optical link budget calculation."]
[null," II.  Chromatic Dispersion calculation."]
[null,"III. Optical Signal to Noise (OSNR) Determination."]
[null,"IV. Production of a Bill of Material (BOM). "]
[null,"V.  A detailed report of the planned channel. "]
[null,"VI. A network inventories. "]
[null,"VII. What if analysis."]
[null,"VIII. Capacity utilization report. "]
[null,"The planning tool shall be able to interchange data with the Network Management System as per below diagram."]
[null,"The supplier shall provide information on software and hardware requirements of the optical link design planning tool.               "]
[null,"Miscellaneous Requirements ",null,null,{"v":2.5,"d":"2.50"}]
[null,"Spares"]
[null,"I.      The supplier shall provide a spares breakdown for each item of equipment offered."]
[null,"Tools and Test Equipment"]
[null,"I.    The supplier shall provide a list of test equipment considered necessary to perform on-site maintenance and fault-finding on all offered equipment.  Test sets that are proprietary to the manufacturer shall only be recommended where commercial general-purpose test equipment cannot be employed, or where its use would be grossly uneconomic.      "]
[null,"II.   The supplier shall supply a list of special tools, connector cords, card extenders, etc. that are considered necessary to perform on-site maintenance and fault finding on the on all offered equipment.                   "]
[null,"Documentation"]
[null,"I.    Handbooks (Instruction Manuals) are required for each piece of equipment.  They must be comprehensive enough to enable a competent Technician to identify each component, test point and terminal and to check supply voltages and signal voltages/signal conditions throughout the module/unit/equipment.  "]
[null,"II.   All critical voltages and voltage limits shall be indicated on circuit diagrams or included in the text.  All signal levels or signal conditions shall be similarly detailed, together with permissible limits for satisfactory operation of the equipment.          "]
[null,"Warranty"]
[null,"I.    Suppliers shall state the warranty period on all offered equipment after installation and the terms thereof."]
[null,"Repairs"]
[null," I.   The supplier shall provide a repair service for faulty units, sub-units and modules removed from site Broadband Infraco’s technicians.  This service shall form part of the support service to be negotiated with the supplier post awarding."]
[null,"System"]
[null,"I.     The system shall support Intelligent Network Control Plane (e.g. GMPLS). "]