United Kingdom's National Physical Laboratory Deploys Symmetricom Timing Solutions for Critical Accuracy
The UK's national standards organizations trusts the precision of a Symmetricom hydrogen maser clock, NTP Time Servers and Domain Time II Time Synchronization software to provide official, critically accurate time.
San Jose, CA (PRWEB via Overdrive) June 8, 2005 -- Symmetricom (NASDAQ:SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time
and frequency products and services, today announced National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the United Kingdom's
national standards organization that maintains the nation's standards for time,
deployed Symmetricom's Domain Time II software to monitor the time
servers for complete redundancy, reliability and critical accuracy in reporting
time to the general public. They also rely on a wide range of Symmetricom
precise timing solutions, including their hydrogen maser clock for maintaining
standard time as well as four Symmetricom time servers for distributing time
across its internal network.
“Our internal clocks and the Symmetricom
time servers are as reliable as any time devices in the world, but given the
fact that businesses rely on us for providing time, we needed an absolute
guarantee of 100-percent accuracy and 24x7 access,” commented Peter Whibberley,
senior research scientist for NPL. “Since our international reputation is at stake every
time someone requests time from us, we wanted to build an extra level of
redundancy into the system. Domain Time II time synchronization software monitors the time
servers.”
NPL successfully maintains time with a Symmetricom maser clock
and distributes time to the general public via radio signals and dial-up
connections. After receiving multiple requests to provide time over the
Internet, the organization converted two of the Symmetricom NTP (Network Time Protocol) time servers, giving the general
public access to obtain the time.
NPL sought a redundancy solution that would inform them
immediately if any problems occurred in the system as well as giving them total
control as not to have to rely on any outside sources such as GPS (global
positioning system). Having successfully utilized Symmetricom's hydrogen maser
clock, as well as two TymServe 2100s and two NTS-200s network time servers, NPL's selection of Domain Time
II time synchronization software to monitor the time servers came easy.
"National Physical Laboratory’s measurement research and
innovation are respected around the world and play a key role in supporting the
competitiveness of UK companies,” commented Paul Skoog, product marketing
manager for Symmetricom. “With the high stakes of accuracy, it is critical they
maintain precise, accurate and reliable time, with Symmetricom's timing
solutions as the most reliable in the world.”
For a complete case study
on how National Physical Laboratory turned to Symmetricom when they needed to
deploy a new methodology for providing time please visit or click on the
following URL: www.npl.symmttm.com">www.npl.symmttm.com
About National Physical
Laboratory
NPL is the United Kingdom's national standards laboratory, an
internationally respected and independent centre of excellence in research,
development and knowledge transfer in measurement and materials science. For
more than a century we have developed and maintained the nation's primary
measurement standards - the heart of an infrastructure designed to ensure
accuracy, consistency and innovation in physical measurement. For more
information, visit www.npl.co.uk.
About Symmetricom, Inc.
As a
worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing” to customers around the
world, including communication service providers, network equipment
manufacturers, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), aerospace contractors,
enterprises, governments and research facilities. Since 1985, the company's
timing, frequency and synchronization solutions have helped define the world's
standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireless and
wireline networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time
management. Deployed in more than 90 countries, products include atomic clocks,
cesium and rubidium standards, VME, crystal oscillators, PCI cards and Global Positioning System
(GPS) solutions for instrumentation applications, as well as network time
servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization and time
synchronization solutions. In 2002, Symmetricom acquired TrueTime and Datum,
enhancing its position in the world time and frequency markets. Symmetricom is
based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit
www.symmetricom.com.
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