For Immediate Release - Monday, June 11, 2009
Elliott Laboratories confirmed as a Notified Body
Sunnyvale, CA, June 11, 2009- In an important expansion to its wireless testing and certification capabilities, Elliott Laboratories, an NTS company has recently been confirmed as a Notified Body by the European Commission as a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) under the Radio & Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (R&TTE Directive) of the telecom annex under the US-EU Mutual Recognition Agreement.
The Notified Body status for the European Union's R&TTE Directive grants Elliott Laboratories the ability to issue formal compliance and regulatory opinions for the CE marking of radio devices. The European Community (EC) has established a mutual recognition scheme for regulated products. Under this scheme, each EC country shall provide to the EC a list of laboratories and other bodies, referred to as "notified bodies", which can declare that a regulated product conforms to the "essential requirements" detailed in the applicable directive.
"The recent achievement of our CAB accreditation is an important element of our strategy for the expansion of our wireless services portfolio," said Eddie Pavlu, General Manager of NTS Silicon Valley. "Our goal is to develop a 'one-stop-shopping' experience for a wide range of wireless device manufacturers, which will eliminate the added costs and complexities of working with multiple service providers to achieve certifications needed to market products all over the world."
Elliott's services as an R&TTE Notified Body include conformity assessments of radio communications devices such as WiFi, WLAN, Bluetooth, RFID and short range devices in accordance with Annex III - Identification of essential radio tests for the R&TTE Directive and Annex IV - Providing advice on how to structure and present a Technical Construction File (TCF) and providing Statements of Opinion on compliance of products with the essential requirements of the R&TTE Directive for radio, EMC and safety based on a TCF.
More information about Elliott Laboratories' Notified Body program can be found at www.elliottlabs.com/notified_body.htm
About Elliott Laboratories, an NTS Company
Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Elliott Laboratories is a world-class compliance testing laboratory. With over 25 years of experience servicing the needs of electronic product manufacturers in various industries, Elliott's clients save time and money by achieving their compliance requirements quickly and efficiently, enabling them to bring their products to market without costly delays. Elliott Laboratories operates one of the West Coast's premier EMC testing facilities in Fremont, California, with one 10-meter semi-anechoic chamber and two 5-meter semi-anechoic chambers, in addition to a full suite of EMC immunity/susceptibility labs. And in the company's Sunnyvale, California facility, a two acre Open Area Test Site (OATS) complex houses 4 test sites capable of testing at 3-meter and 10-meter distances. Additionally, the Sunnyvale facility houses Elliott's two 3-meter chambers, ESD Lab, Screen Room, EMC debug lab, Product Safety lab and more. These two facilities, lying just 15 miles apart, represent one of the most modern and high bandwidth testing centers in the industry, capable of servicing the needs of a wide range of product manufacturers.
In June 2008, Elliott Laboratories was acquired by National Technical Systems (NASDAQ: NTSC). The merger with NTS enables Elliott Laboratories to continue its growth trajectory and expand into new service categories and new markets. As part of the NTS organization Elliott now offers it clients a broad range of services to help them achieve their compliance engineering goals. Although many things have changed since the company was founded in 1979, Elliott's commitment to excellent service and customer satisfaction remain the same.
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