This Standard applies to Customer Equipment (CE) that is:

(a) designed with multiple ports (local or network) that provides or is intended to provide access (gateway functions) to a Telecommunications Network; and

(b) capable of switching, storage, processing, conversion, integration, line isolation/coupling or multiplexing of analogue or digital voice or voice equivalent communication.

CE is not excluded from the scope of this Standard by reason only that it is capable of performing functions additional to those described in this Standard.