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Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations

(1988 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

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"wide area network".

A data communication system which:

(a) Allows an arbitrary number of independent "data devices" to

communicate with each other;

(b) May include "local area networks"; and

(c) Is designed to interconnect geographically dispersed facilities. (b) Communication equipment or systems for "stored-programme-controlled

circuit switching":

"stored-programme-controlled circuit switching”----

The technique for establishing, on demand and until released, a direct (space-division switching) or logical (time-division switching) connection between circuits based on switching control information derived from any source or circuit and processed according to the stored programme by one or more electronic computers.

Electronic computers "embedded" in stored-programme-controlled communica- tion switching equipment or systefns are to be regarded as specially designed components therefor.

This Item includes statistical multiplexers, with digital input and digital output, referred to this Item by Item IL 1519(c), if they satisfy the definitions of either “data (message) switching" or "stored-programme-controlled circuit switching".

N.B.

See Item IL 1519(c) for statistical multiplexers which provide only fixed routing, i.e. routing which is neither:

(a) Determined when the fircuit established; nor

(b) Dynamically alterably.

(This ends the Technical notes. For a complete list of definitions of terms used in this Item, see Note 8 below; see/also Item IL 1565 for additional definitions relating to electronic computers and Item IL 1566 for additional definitions relating to "software".)

Listed as follows:

(a) Communication equipment or systems for "data (message) switching", including

those for "local area networks" or for "wide area networks”;

(b) Communication equipment or systems for "stored-programme-controlled circuit

switching"; except:

(1) Key telephone systems, provided that:

(1) They do not provide direct dial access to a group of shared exchange lines

or "trufik circuits";

(ii) They are not designed to be upgraded to "private automatic branch

exchanges" ("PABXs");

(iii) The software" supplied:

(a) Is limited to:

(1) The minimum "specially designed software" necessary for the use (i.e. installation, operation and maintenance) of the equipment or systems; and

(2) Machine-executable form; and

Does not include "software":

(1) Embargoed by Items IL 1527, 1566(a)(5) or Item ML 11 on the

Munitions List; or

(2) To permit user-modification of generic "software" or its

associated documentation; and

If the equipment or systems are not designed for installation by the user without support from the supplier, then the "software" necessary for commissioning is:

(a) Exported on a temporary basis only; and

(b) Kept under the control of the supplier;