The Wassenaar Arrangement - Dual-Use and Munitions Lists - July 1996
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Note 1 The control status of components, "lasers", test and "production" equipment, materials and "software" therefor which are specially designed for telecommunications equipment or systems is determined in Category 5, Part 1.
Note 2 "Digital computers", related equipment or "software", when essential for the operation and support of telecommunications equipment described in this Category, are regarded as specially designed components, provided they are the standard models customarily supplied by the manufacturer. This includes operation, administration, maintenance, engineering or billing computer systems.
5.A.1. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS
a. Any type of telecommunications equipment having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:1. Specially designed to withstand transitory electronic effects or electromagnetic pulse effects, both arising from a nuclear explosion;2. Specially hardened to withstand gamma, neutron or ion radiation; or
3. Specially designed to operate outside the temperature range from 218 K (-55°C) to 397 K (124°C).
Note 5.A.1.a.3. applies only to electronic equipment.Note 5.A.1.a.2. and 5.A.1.a.3. do not apply to equipment on board satellites.
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b. Telecommunication transmission equipment and systems, and specially designed components and accessories therefor, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:Note Telecommunication transmission equipment:
a. Categorised as follows, or combinations thereof:1. Radio equipment (e.g., transmitters, receivers and transceivers);2. Line terminating equipment;3. Intermediate amplifier equipment;
4. Repeater equipment;
5. Regenerator equipment;
6. Translation encoders (transcoders);
7. Multiplex equipment (statistical mutiplex included);
8. Modulators/demodulators (modems);
9. Transmultiplex equipment (see CCITT Rec. G701);
10. "Stored programme controlled" digital crossconnection equipment;
11. "Gateways" and bridges;
12. "Media access units"; and
b. Designed for use in single or multi-channel communication via any of the following:
1. Wire (line);2. Coaxial cable;
3. Optical fibre cable;
4. Electromagnetic radiation; or
5. Underwater acoustic wave propagation.
1. Employing digital techniques, including digital processing of analogue signals, and designed to operate at a "digital transfer rate" at the highest multiplex level exceeding 45 Mbit/s or a "total digital transfer rate" exceeding 90 Mbit/s;
Note: 5.A.1.b.1. does not control equipment specially designed to be integrated and operated in any satellite system for civil use.2. Being underwater communications systems having any of the following characteristics:
a. An acoustic carrier frequency outside the range from 20 kHz to 60 kHz;b. Using an electromagnetic carrier frequency below 30 kHz; or
c. Using electronic beam steering techniques;
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3. Being equipment containing any of the following:a. "Network access controllers" and their related common medium having a "digital transfer rate" exceeding 156 Mbit/s; orb. "Communication channel controllers" with a digital output having a "data signalling rate" exceeding 2.1 Mbit/s per channel;
Note If any uncontrolled equipment contains a "network access controller", it cannot have any type of telecommunications interface except Those described in, but not specified in 5.A.1.b.3.
4. Employing a "laser" and having any of the following characteristics:
a. A transmission wavelength exceeding 1,000 nm; orb. Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 45 MHz.
Note 5.A.1.b.4.b. does not control commercial TV systems.
c. Employing coherent optical transmission or coherent optical detection techniques (also called optical heterodyne or homodyne techniques);
d. Employing wavelength division multiplexing techniques; or
e. Performing "optical amplification";
5. Being radio equipment operating at input or output frequencies exceeding 31 GHz;
Note 5.A.1.b.5. does not specify equipment designed or modified for operation in any ITU allocated band.
6. Being radio equipment employing any of the following:
a. Quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) techniques above level 4 if the "total digital transfer rate" exceeds 8.5 Mbit/s;b. QAM techniques above level 16 if the "total digital transfer rate" is equal to or less than 8.5 Mbit/s; or
c. Other digital modulation techniques and having a "spectral efficiency" exceeding 3 bit/sec/Hz;
Note 1 5.A.1.b.6. does not control equipment specially designed to be integrated and operated in any satellite system for civil use.
Note 2 5.A.1.b.6. does not control radio relay equipment for operation in an ITU allocated band:
a.1. Not exceeding 960 MHz; or2. With a "total digital transfer rate" not exceeding 8.5 Mbit/s; and
b. Having a "spectral efficiency" not exceeding 4 bit/sec/Hz.
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7. Being radio equipment operating in the 1.5 MHz to 87.5 MHz band and having any of the following characteristics:a. Incorporating adaptive techniques providing more than 15 dB suppression of an interfering signal; orb. Having all of the following:
1. Automatically predicting and selecting frequencies and "total digital transfer rates" per channel to optimise the transmission; and2. Incorporating a linear power amplifier configuration having a capability to support multiple signals simultaneously at an output power of 1 kW or more in the 1.5 MHz to 30 MHz frequency range or 250 W or more in the 30 MHz to 87.5 MHz frequency range, over an "instantaneous bandwidth" of one octave or more and with an output harmonic and distortion content of better than -80 dB;
8. Being radio equipment employing "spread spectrum" or "frequency agility" (frequency hopping) techniques having any of the following characteristics:
a. User programmable spreading codes; orb. A total transmitted bandwidth which is 100 or more times the bandwidth of any one information channel and in excess of 50 kHz;
Note 5.A.1.b.8.b. does not control cellular radio equipment operating in civil bands.
Note: 5A001.b.8. does not control equipment operating at an output power of 1.0 Watt or less.
9. Being digitally controlled radio receivers having all of the following:
a. More than 1,000 channels;b. A "frequency switching time" of less than 1 ms;
c. Automatic searching or scanning of a part of the electromagnetic spectrum; and
d. Identification of the received signals or the type of transmitter; or
Note 5.A.1.b.9. does not control cellular radio equipment operating in civil bands.
10. Employing functions of digital "signal processing" to provide voice coding at rates of less than 2,400 bit/s.
c. "Stored programme controlled" switching equipment and related signalling systems, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
Note Statistical multiplexers with digital input and digital output which provide switching are treated as "stored programme controlled" switches.
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1. "Common channel signalling" operating in either non-associated or quasi- associated mode of operation;2. "Dynamic adaptive routing";
Note 5.A.1.c.2. does not control packet switches or routers with ports or lines not exceeding the limits in 5.A.1.c.3.
3. Being packet switches, circuit switches and routers with ports or lines exceeding any of the following:
a. A "data signalling rate" of 2.1 Mbit/s per channel for a "communications channel controller"; orNote 5.A.1.c.3.a. does not control multiplexed composite links composed only of communication channels not individually controlled by 5.A.1.c.3.a.
b. A "digital transfer rate" of 156 Mbit/s for a "network access controller" and related common medium;
4. "Optical switching";
5. Employing "Asynchronous Transfer Mode" ("ATM") techniques.
d. Optical fibre communication cables, optical fibres and accessories, as follows:1. Optical fibres and optical fibre cables of more than 50 m in length having any of the following characteristics:a. Designed for single mode operation; orb. For optical fibres, specified by the manufacturer as being capable of withstanding a proof test tensile stress of 2 x 109 N/m2 or more;
Technical Note
Proof Test: on-line or off-line production screen testing that dynamically applies a prescribed tensile stress over a 0.5 to 3 m length of fibre at a running rate of 2 to 5 m/s while passing between capstans approximately 150 mm in diameter. The ambient temperature is a nominal 293 K (20°C) and relative humidity 40%.
N.B. Equivalent national standards may be used for executing the proof test.
2. Optical fibre cables and accessories designed for underwater use.
Note 5.A.1.d.2. does not control standard civil telecommunication cables and accessories.
N.B. For fibre-optic hull penetrators or connectors, see 8.A.2.c.
e. "Electronically steerable phased array antennae" operating above 31 GHz.
Note: 5.A.1.e. does not control "electronically steerable phased array antennae" for landing systems with instruments meeting ICAO standards covering microwave landing systems (MLS).
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5.B.1. TEST, INSPECTION AND PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
a. Equipment and specially designed components or accessories therefor, specially designed for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment, materials, functions or features controlled by Category 5 - Part 1.Note 5.B.1.a. does not control optical fibres and "optical fibre preform" characterization equipment not using semiconductor "lasers".
5.C.1. MATERIALS
a. Preforms of glass or of any other material optimised for the manufacture of optical fibres specified in 5.A.1.d.
5.D.1. SOFTWARE
a. "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment, functions or features controlled by category 5 - Part 1.b. "Software" specially designed or modified to support "technology" specified in 5.E.1.
c. Specific "software" as follows:
1. "Software", other than in machine-executable form, specially designed or modified for the "use" of digital cellular radio equipment or systems;2. "Software" specially designed or modified to provide characteristics, functions or features of equipment specified in 5.A.1. or 5.B.1.;
3. "Software" which provides the capability of recovering "source code" of telecommunications "software" controlled by Category 5 - Part 1;
4. "Software", other than in machine-executable form, specially designed for "dynamic adaptive routing".
N.B. For "software" for "signal processing" see also 4.D. and 6.D.
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5.E.1. TECHNOLOGY
a. "Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development", "production" or "use" (excluding operation) of equipment, functions or features, materials or "software" controlled by Category 5 - Part 1.b. Specific "technologies", as follows:
1. "Required" "technology" for the "development" or "production" of telecommunications equipment specially designed to be used on board satellites;2. "Technology" for the "development" or "use" of "laser" communication techniques with the capability of automatically acquiring and tracking signals and maintaining communications through exoatmosphere or sub-surface (water) media;
3. "Technology" for the processing and application of coatings to optical fibre specially designed to make it suitable for underwater use;
4. "Technology" for the "development" of equipment employing "Synchronous Digital Hierarchy" ("SDH") or "Synchronous Optical Network" ("SONET") techniques;
5. "Technology" for the "development" of "switch fabric" exceeding 64,000 bit/s per information channel other than for digital cross connect integrated in the switch;
6. "Technology" for the "development" of centralized network control or "dynamic adaptive routing";
7. "Technology" for the "development" of digital cellular radio systems;
8. "Technology" for the "development" of broadband "Integrated Services Digital Network" ("ISDN");
9. "Technology" for the "development" of QAM techniques, for radio equipment, above level 4;
10. "Technology" for the "development" of "spread spectrum" or "frequency agility" (frequency hopping) techniques.
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