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Synchronization provides the heartbeat of the carrier-class network, wireline or wireless, legacy TDM, SONET, IP or Packet Optical.
Sync is often taken for granted. But when Sync fails, the network fails, and customers feel the impact through failed calls, dropped connections, quality issues, poor throughput, failures and errors. Critical sync failures can take down 911 services, and isolate carrier clients or entire cities.
To help our customers with their Synchronization challenges, Empowered combines products from Symmetricom, the worldwide leader in precise precise time and frequency with services and support from Empowered’s team of skilled and experienced resources.
Synchronization Solutions
- Primary Reference Sources (PRS): GPS-referenced atomic clocks with high stability, that keep sync signals stable - over time, between networks, and when problems occur
- IEEE 1588, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Solutions: The emerging standard for providing precise timing and synchronization over packet-based, Ethernet networks.
- Carrier-Class Integrated Platforms: SSU 2000 and TimeHub 5500 platforms generate and distribute synchronization signals for larger telco offices, and TimeProvider 1000, 1100 and 5000 platforms support smaller installations and remote sites
- NTP Servers: Modular solutions and appliances to provide accurate, reliable, and secure time synchronization to Enterprise IT and telecommunications networks.
- DOCSIS Timing Interface (DTI) Solutions: Deliver precise synchronization to the cable headend and the downstream edge of broadband cable networks.
- Management Systems: Carrier class visibility, monitoring, management and control of the end-to-end synchronization network
- Expert Services: Skilled experts to help advance your projects, from onsite consulting and audits, to cutover support, to full turn-key implementation, and ongoing support.
Overview / Benefits
High quality Synchronization is essential for:
- Legacy voice, CBR and fax services,
- All forms of Wireless,
- Today’s modular Cable networks, based on DOCSIS 3.0
- Services carried over converged networks based on IP and Ethernet
- Tomorrow’s Packet Optical Networks, and
- The next-generation services these networks deliver.
Sync is also essential for quality assurance, network performance, service availability and seamless interoperability between carriers, networks and access methods.
Empowered Value-Add
Our Sync Experts combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.
To get the most from your Sync products, Empowered can help you:
- Audit your existing Synchronization environment, and justify improvements needed
- Explore and explain your available options to support new and evolving technical standards and services, while keeping legacy equipment and services running smoothly
- Build in Resilience – Provide high quality synchronization signalling, with high stability
- Maximize uptime – Ensure critical services get precise phase alignment and high stability during holdover periods.
- Plan technology trials of new technologies in synchronization, with analysis tools, and skills to evaluate trial results
- Phase out legacy Synchronization Equipment before failures accelerate, assist with upgrade implementations, and recover displaced equipment to support remaining sites
- Determine solutions to deploy to support your deployment scenario, to meet sync service requirements, redundancy and service quality goals
- Source and implement the right solution for your needs, with Engineering and Design Support, Turn-Key Installation, and Cut-over Assistance
- Assess your existing Network Management and OSS environment, evaluate approaches for integrating Sync Element Management, and justify improvements needed
- Maintain, rebuild and supplement Synchronization expertise within your teams
- Provide the ongoing technical and maintenance support you need
Empowered has unparalleled expertise in designing and deploying carrier-class Sync solutions for Canada’s leading carriers, and around the globe. Those skills and expertise extend to synchronization testing, analysis, and management, refined through our work with our customers in lab trials and field deployments of new technologies like DOCSIS 3.0 and PTP.