The Electronic Communications Committee, abbreviated ECC

The Electronic Communications Committee, abbreviated ECC

 is a European organization for spectrum management.

It is a part of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications

Administrations, CEPT. As the name of the mother organization indicates ECC

mainly consists of national frequency authorities.

As within ITU-R the work within ECC is organized in work groups. Each work

group concentrates on a specific topic. Of most interest for microwave radio links

is the Spectrum Engineering work group 19, SE19. , This group deals with

spectrum management for fixed services, including microwave radio links. To put

it simply, ECC SE19 specifies how to apply the ITU-R spectrum

recommendations for fixed services in Europe. For example specification of

channel patterns for different channel bandwidths.

Members of the ECC with the right to vote are the European national frequency

regulation authorities and network operators. Equipment manufacturers, like

Ericsson, can participate as observers

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI, is an European

independent, non-profit organization with the task to produce technical standards

for telecommunication equipment.

ETSI produces European standards and is recognized by the European Union

and national regulatory authorities within the EU. The standards are however

produced to be globally applicable and are recognized also by regulatory

authorities in many non-European countries.

Equipment standards issued by ETSI describe technical characteristics for many

parts of microwave systems, for example for transmitters, receivers and

antennas.

The ETSI standardization work is organized in technical committees subdivided

into work groups.

Standards for microwave transmission equipment are produced mainly within the

ETSI workgroup Transmission and Multiplexing 4, TM4, which is a part of the

Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing Committee, ATTM.

Members with voting rights are equipment manufacturers, like Ericsson, and

network operators.