Communications Test and Measurement partners are industry-leading vendors that provide the capability to accurately monitor and analyze network performance to ensure precise timing and synchronization across communications networks.
Communications Test and Measurement Partners
Overview
Interoperability Members
Anue Systems
The Anue Systems and Microsemi partnership helps ensure the successful deployment of critical timing and synchronization services required by 4G/LTE networks. With its industry unique Anue 3500, Anue Systems helps Microsemi and the SyncWorld ecosystem partners to prove interoperability and conformance of their next generation timing and synchronization solutions.
- Learn more about Anue 3500 Mobile Backhaul, Timing and Synchronization Testing Solution
- Read press release: Anue Systems Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program
Calnex Solutions
Calnex and Microsemi have worked closely together to provide and prove robust 1588v2 and SyncE solutions to customers. The companies have conducted extensive joint trials and deployments in labs and in carrier networks.
The testing that has been done broadly covers two areas – Interoperability and Performance. At Interoperability test events, such as those organized by EANTC (www.eantc.com), the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster was demonstrated using the Calnex Paragon to operate successfully with equipment from numerous different manufacturers. Interoperability is a key challenge for network operators, which the Microsemi TimeProvider 5000 addresses successfully. For the performance tests, the Calnex Paragon-X platform was used to emulate real network stress conditions between the Microsemi TimeProvider 5000 Grandmaster and the TimeProvider 500 slave clock and then measure the quality of the recovered clock. These performance tests showed that the Microsemi equipment operated within the specified network limits even under demanding load conditions.
- Learn more about 1588v2 and Sync-E Technologies and Testing from Calnex's library of Application Notes and White Papers
- Watch short videos: How to test 1588v2 and SyncE
- Read press release: Calnex Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program
Chronos Technology
Chronos and Microsemi have successfully used SyncWatch technology to demonstrate the effectiveness of 1588 technology to deliver fit for purpose synchronization and to provide operators with a long term monitoring solution that is independent of the sync delivery solution. Chronos has test data demonstrating the excellent performance of Microsemi 1588 technology in test and operational networks.
- Read our case studies, application notes and datasheets
- Read press release: Chronos Technology Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program
EXFO
EXFO and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform detailed testing that validates a wide range of synchronization technologies supplied through Microsemi's portfolio of network synchronization products, including the TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster. EXFO's Syncwatch-110 is a highly versatile, all-in one solution, purposely-built for qualifying and monitoring next-generation backhaul networks that use Precision Time Protocol 1588v2 or SyncE technologies, as well as traditional TDM and frequency synchronization, covering the complete network lifecycle.
- Learn more about EXFO Syncwatch-110: SyncWatch-110 Synchronization Testing Unit
- Read application note: Measuring the Pulse of Your Network with SyncWatch-110
- Network lifecycle synchronization assessment: Qualifying and monitoring next-gen network synchronization
Ixia
The quality of timing and synchronization directly impacts QoS for voice, video, and data services. Ixia’s timing protocol test solution was the first in the industry to evaluate the functionality, conformance, and performance of IEEE 1588v2 and Synchronous Ethernet implementations on telecommunication network equipment. As leading solution providers like Microsemi and Ixia collaborate, network operators will benefit from more comprehensive, integrated, and simplified timing and synchronization solutions.
JDSU
www.jdsu.com JDSU is proud to collaborate closely with Microsemi to ensure a successful deployment experience in scenarios that leverage PTP 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over packet networks. For example, JDSU's T-BERD/MTS 6000A MSAM and T-BERD/MTS 5800 product lines are designed to enable field technicians to perform successful installation and maintenance of the PTP/1588 synchronization protocol in the packet-based network by interoperating with the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster.
- Learn more about JDSU's test and measurement solutions for testing packet-based synchronization protocols for mobile backhaul and LTE deployments
- Read our White Paper about timing and synchronization in packet networks
- Read our case study focusing on successful mobile backhaul deployment
- Watch a video about Addressing the risks and challenges of LTE
Spirent
Distributing timing and synchronization to base stations, accurately and reliably, is crucial to ensuring that mobile subscribers don't suffer from poor QoE or dropped calls. Spirent is a leading provider of Ethernet test solutions and offers a comprehensive mobile backhaul testing solution. Spirent's solutions validate packet timing protocols such as IEEE 1588v2 and SyncE SSM and test physical timing characteristics by generating and measuring impairments such as wander and PDV.
Spirent is pleased to collaborate with Microsemi to help Service Providers and Network Equipment Manufacturers accelerate the deployment of Ethernet in the mobile backhaul. For a number of years, Spirent has promoted and resold Microsemi XLI GPS receivers and will interoperate with Microsemi's Time Provider 5000 GrandMaster.
- Read more about Spirent's solutions for testing the Mobile backhaul and next-gen mobile networks
- Read about Spirent's participation in public tests by partnering with independent test labs and standards bodies
