Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency technologies, announced today that it has incorporated IEEE 1588 PTP (precision timing protocol) capabilities into its SyncServer® S300 and S350 network time server products. PTP provides the enhanced time synchronization accuracy that is quickly becoming mandatory for latency sensitive applications found on LANs. The new PTP features for the SyncServer devices use hardware based, packet-time stamping for nanosecond caliber accuracy and precision, thereby making even more accurate time synchronization possible for PTP clients on the network.

The new capabilities of the SyncServer S300/S350 network time servers further enhance the SyncServer’s role as a comprehensive time source for accurate, reliable and secure network timekeeping operations. In addition, the SyncServer has proven PTP client interoperability with FSMLabs’ TimeKeeper software for Linux and the new Domain Time II PTP software for Windows. IT managers can now quickly and easily deploy both the SyncServer and PTP client software to accurately synchronize Linux and Windows-based machines across the network.

Paul Skoog, product marketing manager for Symmetricom, noted, “Newer low latency applications benefit from time accuracy greater than that provided by traditional NTP. For those network architects who are in the process of evaluating and deploying PTP to achieve better time stamp accuracy, the SyncServer S300/S350 provides the essential PTP features and the smoothest transition path from NTP to PTP for their networks.”

Skoog added, “The beauty of the new PTP feature is that every S300 Series SyncServer ever sold has hardware time stamping built in. A simple software upgrade enables the new PTP functionality for existing deployments while preserving the NTP capability already in place. The PTP option also includes a new Time Interval measurement on the S350 that is useful to measure the accuracy of hardware-based PTP clients on the network. This technique verifies the time-synchronization accuracy achieved over the network between the SyncServer and a hardware based PTP client down to five nanoseconds resolution.”

Jeffry Dwight, president of Greyware Automation Products, the leading provider of time synchronization, management, and auditing software for Windows, noted, "We chose the SyncServer 350 to develop the PTP support in the Domain Time II software. The ease-of-use, accuracy and reliability of the S350 is ideal for our rigorous testing under various network conditions."

Symmetricom’s S300 and S350 SyncServers with PTP provide extremely robust hardware time stamp accuracy servicing over 4000 delay request messages per second, all with less than 25 nanosecond time stamp accuracy. Unlike software time stamping, hardware time stamping removes all internal asymmetric paths delays and related errors caused by the operating system. The result is far better time synchronization accuracy between the SyncServer and the PTP client.

The new PTP option for the S300/S350 SyncServers delivers best of Enterprise class performance in a single NTP/PTP grandmaster clock. The new features interoperate with IEEE 1588 PTP version 2 software slaves. The S300/S350 provides the following key PTP features and benefits:

  • A combination Enterprise NTP/PTP Time Server providing a single time source for the network, for both PTP and NTP clients.
  • Nanosecond accurate PTP time stamps for better computer-to-computer time synchronization.
  • Tracking of PTP slave activity on the SyncServer for assurance that PTP slaves are synchronizing.
  • Performance monitoring of PTP traffic load on the SyncServer for assurance that the server is servicing all requests and is not overloaded.
  • For the S350, time interval measurements and statistics for measuring hardware-based PTP slave accuracy relative to the SyncServer.

Availability

The IEEE 1588 PTP features for the SyncServer S350 and S300 products are now available. Additional product information can be found at:

http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ieee-1588-ptp-solutions/ptp-servers/SyncServer-S350-PTP/

http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ntp-servers/ntp-network-appliances/SyncServer-S300/

About Symmetricom, Inc.

Symmetricom (NASDAQ: SYMM), a world leader in precise time solutions, sets the world’s standard for time. The company generates, distributes and applies precise time for the communications, aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure and metrology industries. Symmetricom’s customers, from communications service providers and network equipment manufacturers to governments and their suppliers worldwide, are able to build more reliable networks and systems by using the company’s advanced timing technologies, atomic clocks, services and solutions. All products support today’s precise timing standards, including GPS-based timing, IEEE 1588 (PTP), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Synchronous Ethernet and DOCSIS® timing. Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit: www.symmetricom.com.

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