Symmetricom Intros NTP Card

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), aworldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, todayannounced its new carrier class, high performance NTP plug-in server cardsupporting QoS for Next Generation applications such as IPTV, Billing RecordManagement, QoS Measurement Systems and IP Service Level Agreements (SLA)Monitoring. The new carrier class NTP server card is fully integrated intoSymmetricom’s TimeHub™ Building Integrated Timing Supply (BITS) system.Carrier class NTP meets QoS requirements of Next Generation Networks (NGN).

“Carriers are finding that ‘best effort’ enterprise class NTP is notsufficient for QoS assurance in packet networks and advanced services, suchas IPTV and billing record management,” commented Barry Dropping, seniordirector product line management for Symmetricom. “With the introduction ofSymmetricom’s high performance NTP servers on a card, the BITS platform cannow deliver carrier class NTP to meet demanding NGN packet timingrequirements, providing performance, scalability, availability and securityfor delivery of advanced services.”

Telecommunication carriers have typically deployed enterprise class NTPservers in central locations to provide coarse time stamping forapplications such as billing records and time correlation of alarm events.NTP that was in the domain of the data center could be distributed widelyacross the network since accuracies of half a second were generallyadequate, and transaction rate loading was low. However, NGN applicationssuch as IPTV are highly dependant on carrier class NTP. Time coordination ofmassive amounts of digital content in the head end serving locations isreliant on accurate and secure NTP timestamps.

Symmetricom’s NTP server cards are fully integrated into the TimeHub BITSsystem. NTP cards can be installed as single servers or redundant pairs inany available master or expansion shelf output slot. Already in large scaledeployment with major North American carriers, the TimeHub 5500 is the nextgeneration BITS designed for carrier class networks. It is a modular, fullyredundant timing distribution system that tracks incoming timing referencesand qualifies the signals against network timing standards. It then filtersand distributes precise timing to all equipment in the central office.

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