SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global leader in test & measurement, and Symmetricom® Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), a worldwide leader in precision time and frequency technologies, today announced Spirent’s participation in Symmetricom’s SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program. The program was launched earlier this year to support the precise timing and synchronization required as part of the transition to all-IP backhaul networks and 4G/LTE mobile platforms. It enables interoperability and cooperation among network equipment vendors, chip manufacturers and testing companies, focused on addressing the advanced networking requirements of service providers and enterprises.
Membership of the program aligns well with Spirent’s strategy of applying its industry-leading mobile backhaul testing solutions to help service providers and equipment vendors validate the performance of the most demanding applications on the mobile Internet and ensure a good quality of experience (QoE) for mobile subscribers. Spirent’s solutions validate packet timing protocols, including IEEE 1588v2 and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE), and test physical timing characteristics by generating and measuring impairments such as wander and packet delay variation (PDV).
“Precise timing synchronization is essential to ensure quality of experience in all-IP/Ethernet mobile backhaul to support increasingly real-time-related traffic,” said Manish Gupta, vice president of Marketing at Symmetricom. “We are delighted to have Spirent join SyncWorld, with its complete portfolio of solutions to smoothly facilitate the transition to packet-based networks.”
As a partner in the SyncWorld™ Ecosystem program, Spirent is providing test methodologies to comprehensively test timing and synchronization across the mobile backhaul. These test methodologies bring together the nanosecond accuracies of Symmetricom’s TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster Clock and the performance testing capabilities of the Spirent TestCenter™ solution.
“Spirent remains committed to helping our customers make the complex transition to an all-IP/Ethernet mobile backhaul by delivering the most advanced solutions for accurately measuring the performance of these networks at scale,” said Rajesh Rajamani, senior product marketing manager at Spirent. “By forging strong partnerships such as this one we help ensure that our testing solutions characterize the accuracy of boundary clocks and transparent clocks that operate in a packet network.”
For more information on Symmetricom's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem program, visit: http://www.symmetricom.com/syncworld.
For more information on Spirent’s mobile backhaul test solutions, visit http://www.spirent.com/Networks-and-Applications/Mobile_backhaul.aspx.
About Symmetricom, Inc.
Symmetricom, 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.
About Spirent Communications plc
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT), a global leader in test & measurement, offers an extensive portfolio of solutions to test data centers, cloud computing environments, high speed Ethernet networks and services, 3G/4G wireless networks and devices, network security, and global navigation satellite systems. For more information visit: http://www.spirent.com/about-us/News_Room/About_Spirent_Communications_plc.aspx.