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Symmetricom has announced that it has partnered with Wintegra to deliver a cost-effective, high-performance, versatile and power-efficient reference design for customers requiring IEEE 1588 (Precision Time Protocol) compliant products. The reference design combines Symmetricom's SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock with Wintegra's WinPath3 platform. This combination enables customers to implement IEEE 1588 in wireless base stations and other network elements in an affordable, portable manner without the need for dedicated silicon.

"With Symmetricom's high-performance, software synchronization technology now available on Wintegra's leading WinPath3 platform, our macro, micro and pico base station customers, and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) can now take advantage of a highly-versatile, high-performance, low-power and cost-efficient PTP solution," said Robert O'Dell, EVP of Marketing and Sales at Wintegra. "We are excited to bring this reference design to market as Wintegra and Symmetricom serve common applications with complementary products. This integrated offering delivers excellent results and has already been well received by customers."

"Wireless and network synchronization requirements are becoming more precise with the deployment of 4G wireless technologies. At the same time, NEMs are challenged with the trends toward achieving their designs with lower power, less board space and less cost," said Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing at Symmetricom. "With the combination of Symmetricom's SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock and Wintegra's technology, NEMs can realize their optimal design goals without requiring dedicated silicon."

Availability

The SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock on the WinPath3 platform is now available. For more information on this solution, contact expertadvice@symmetricom.com. Symmetricom will also be exhibiting the SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock at ITSF 2010 in Dublin Ireland, November 2-4.

Symmetricom SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock

The SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock consists of a powerful algorithm suite, built on industry-leading IEEE 1588-2008 (PTP) client technology that is designed to suit the needs of the telecom network infrastructure. This algorithm suite has specialized filtering and servo algorithms that solve a wide range of application challenges, such as non uniform network traffic loads and heterogeneous network elements. The SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock will be integrated into network elements such as base stations, picocells, cell site routers, aggregation devices, NIDs, routers and switches. It has been successfully deployed in real networks, delivering proven, industry-leading performance.

Wintegra and the WinPath3

Wintegra's WinPath3 platform is comprised of the WinPath3 family and WinPath3-Super Light family. Both WinPath3 and WinPath3-Super Light network processors provide all the hardware and driver support required for IEEE 1588-2008 including MAC timestamping, on-the-fly timestamp insertion, clock synthesizers and 1PPS generation. IEEE 1588 support is available on all Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Wintegra also provides WinPath3 and WinPath3-Super Light development boards where the Symmetricom SCi 2000 software has been verified and passed all G.8261 test cases.

Wintegra is a leading provider of access processing semiconductors enabling the delivery of new services for the evolving communications network infrastructure. Wintegra-based solutions are used in a wide range of networking and communication platforms such as wireline and wireless infrastructure, and access routers and are used by many of the leading equipment manufacturers worldwide.