Symmetricom Announces Network Time Displays

  
    
  
  
    
      Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and 
      frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment, enable the 
      management and assure the performance of next generation networks, today 
      announced its latest network time displays, maintenance free NTP 
      reference clocks that keep accurate time by synchronizing their time 
      over the network to a network time server, eliminating the need for 
      dedicated time distribution cables. The clocks, now available in digital 
      or analog displays including 12 or 24 hour formats, use existing 
      Ethernet network infrastructure and the standard network 
      time protocol (NTP) to keep accurate time.
    
    
      “Time over the network saves both time and 
      money since it is not necessary to pull dedicated timing cables 
      throughout a facility to transfer the time to the displays,” 
      commented Paul Skoog, product marketing manager at Symmetricom. “All 
      displays are available with either standard AC power and Ethernet 
      connections or a combined Power-over-Ethernet connection (PoE) which 
      allows for fewer cables and easier, faster installation.”
    
    
      Once connected to the network, automatic network address configuration 
      via dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) coupled with the display 
      discovery and remote management software makes for easy and complete 
      configuration and control of the displays over the network from a single 
      PC. It is not necessary to physically see the display to change the 
      settings and verify the correct time and formats. Display configuration 
      is saved to non-volatile memory to survive any power fail situation.
    
    
      Key benefits of the new time displays include:
    
    
      
        Correct time is maintained via automatic synchronization to NTP 
        servers over the network
      
      
        Power-over-Ethernet reduces cables and makes for fast installations
      
      
        Easy, cost saving installation using existing Ethernet network and 
        cabling to connect to time servers instead of dedicated cabling to 
        transfer time signals
      
      
        DHCP for automatic network configuration saves time
      
      
        Automatic network discovery and remote management via the network for 
        easy and complete configuration and control
      
      
        Time zone and daylight saving time support eliminates manual time 
        adjustments
      
    
    
      The digital displays lend themselves well to network equipment racks, 
      control rooms, manufacturing facilities and large open spaces where the 
      precise and accurate digital time needs to be visible. Analog displays 
      are well suited for formal or smaller spaces including class rooms and 
      meeting rooms. Multiple displays work well as time zone clocks in 
      control rooms.
    
    
      Availability
    
    
      The new time displays will be shipping in October.
    
    
      About Symmetricom, Inc.
    
    
      As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and 
      services, Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing” 
      to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company’s 
      solutions have helped define the world’s time 
      and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and 
      efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and 
      testing applications and network time management. Deployed in more than 
      90 countries, the company’s synchronization 
      solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated 
      timing supplies (BITS), GPS timing receivers, time and frequency 
      distribution systems, network time servers and ruggedized oscillators. 
      Symmetricom also incorporates technologies including Universal Timing 
      Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol 
      (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world’s 
      migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San 
      Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.
    
    
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