Are there any equipment standards applying to WLAN devices?
Equipment supply is regulated by a labelling regime notice (made under section 182 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992) and suppliers of equipment covered by the ACMA standards (made under section 162) that are listed in that notice must comply with requirements and label equipment accordingly. There are currently two ACMA standards under that notice that are applicable to 2.4 GHz. The first is the Radiocommunications (Data Transmission Equipment Using Spread Spectrum Modulation Techniques) Standard 2003, which was limited to coverage of WLANS using spread spectrum modulation. This ACMA standard mandated Australian standard AS/NZS 4771:2000. The second is the Radiocommunications (Short Range Devices) Standard 2004, which mandates AS/NZS 4268:2003. All WLAN modulation schemes have been now included into the Short Range Devices standard and by early 2007 the spread spectrum standard should be withdrawn. The spread spectrum standard has level 2 compliance requirements whereas the short ra
