Strategic Members
Interoperability Members
Cisco
Cisco and Microsemi collaborate on timing over packet for mobile backhaul solutions using 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi with Cisco’s Unified RAN Backhaul solution. The solution is validated (EANTC, inter-op, customers) to deliver continuous, robust high precision timing even during extensive network congestion and over-subscription.
Cisco recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster for mobile backhaul synchronization requirements.
- Read more about Cisco's Unified RAN Backhaul
- For more information on the validation of the Cisco IP Next-Generation Mobile Network, see Cisco's Light Reading Mobile MegaTest page
Cisco and Microsemi have been close partners in the timing and synchronization for DOCSIS in cable networks.Microsemi provides DTI servers that enable modular CMTS by Cisco to be synchronized.
- Read about the importance of time in the network in the whitepaper, "What Time Is It?"
Microsemi is a Cisco Developer Network Partner
- Read more about Cisco's Developer Network
Nokia
Nokia has successfully integrated Microchip’s TimeProvider® 5000 and TimeProvider 4100 products with its Mobile solutions.
Microchip's TimeProvider Series has been integrated into Nokia NetAct network management system to ensure end-to-end management for the entire mobile backhauling network, including partner products. Nokia is the leading vendor of IP-based backhauling solutions and delivers full end-to-end Mobile Backhauling networks covering also multiple vendors' base stations. Nokia has connected more than 40.000 base stations at more than 50 mobile service providers to their IP-based mobile backhauling solution and is by far the largest integrator for Microchip’s TimeProvider portfolio.
- Read Press Release: Microsemi and NSN’s Joint PTP 1588-2008 deployment in 50 networks globally
- Read Press Release: Microsemi Deploys IEEE 1588 in Over 100 Networks Worldwide
- Read Press Release: Microsemi Deploys PackeTime® Systems Enabling IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol in More Than 150 Networks Globally
- For more on Nokia Solutions Networks leadership in mobile backhaul technology, see “Nokia Solutions Networks Migrates 100th Customer to IP Transport”
- Learn more about efficient mobile backhaul for the new mobile world
Accedian Networks
Accedian Networks and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform detailed interoperability testing that validates mobile backhaul deployment scenarios leveraging Microsemi's carrier-class TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster as an NTP reference timing server to Accedian's High Performance Service Assurance platform consisting of the EtherNID®, MetroNID™ and MetroNODE 10GE™ demarcation devices.
Accedian Networks recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster for mobile backhaul synchronization requirements.
- Accedian Networks White Paper - One Way Delay Measurement Techniques
- Learn more about Accedian's solutions
- Read press release: Accedian Networks Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program
Brocade
Brocade and Microsemi have performed extensive G.8261-based interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over IP-based networks powered by Brocade switches/routers.
Brocade recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster to provide packet-based synchronization solutions for mobile backhaul deployments.
- Learn more about Brocade's mobile backhaul solutions
- Read about the Brocade-RAD-Microsemi Mobile Backhaul Solution
Ciena
Ciena and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform detailed interoperability testing that validates mobile backhaul deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over packet networks powered by Ciena's 1588 enabled Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery portfolio.
Ciena recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster for mobile backhaul synchronization requirements.
- Read about Ciena's next generation mobile backhaul solutions
- Learn more about Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Portfolio
DragonWave
DragonWave and Microsemi have performed extensive IEEE 1588-2008 interoperability testing based on the test cases described in the G.8261 standard. The testing validated the ability of the DragonWave Fusion A20 equipment to recover the clock, well within the masks required for mobile backhaul defined by G.8261, when acting as a 1588v2 slave with the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster.
- Learn more about DragonWave Microwave Solutions
- Learn more about LTE Backhaul
- Find case studies from DragonWave
Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks and Microsemi have performed extensive G.8261-based interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over IP-based networks powered by Extreme BlackDiamond & Summit switches/routers. Test results can be made available under NDA.
Extreme Networks recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster to provide packet-based synchronization solutions for mobile backhaul deployments. Microsemi is a GoPurple Alliance partner.
- Learn more about the joint Microsemi-Extreme solution
- Read about Extreme's Carrier Ethernet solutions
Fiberlogic Communications
Fiberlogic Communications and Microsemi have jointly tested the synchronization capability in the mobile backhaul application utilizing Fiberlogic's OptiQNet842/852 Ethernet Demarcation Device acting as a PTP Slave and Transparent Clock, and Microsemi's TimeProvider® 5000 as Grandmaster.
Fiberlogic recommends Microsemi's TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster for consolidating the synchronization service offering in the next generation mobile backhaul.
- Learn more about Fiberlogic's OptiQNet842/852 Ethernet Demarcation Device, the solution to TOP (Transport, Operation and Precision)
- Read press release: FiberLogic Communications Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld® Ecosystem Program
MRV Optical Communications Systems
MRV Optical Communications Systems and Microsemi have successfully conducted G.8261-based comprehensive interoperability tests (Frequency and Time of Day Synchronization over IEEE 1588) that validate the deployment scenarios (Synchronization For LTE Mobile Backhaul) leveraging the Microsemi's TimeProvider® 5000 IEEE 1588 and MRV's OptiSwitch 904-MBH Carrier Ethernet Access device
- Learn more about MRV's Packet Optical Solution for Mobile Backhaul
- Read MRV's application note and solution brief on Best Practices for Migrating to Converged Mobile Backhaul
- Read press release: MRV Joins Microsemi's SyncWorld™ Ecosystem Program
RAD
RAD and Microsemi have performed extensive G.8261-based interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging the TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster and RAD's ACE-3220 cell site gateway & RAD's ETX-204A.
RAD recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster to provide packet-based synchronization solutions for mobile backhaul deployments.
- Read more in "RAD's New Cell Site Gateway Synchronizes Cellular Backhaul over Next Generation Networks"
- Read RAD's white paper on ;"Synchronization and Timing in Packet-Based Mobile Backhaul"
- Read RAD's press release announcing participation in SyncWorld
Raisecom
Raisecom and Microsemi have performed detailed interoperability testing to validate LTE mobile-backhaul deployment scenarios over packet networks that leverage ITU.T G.8261 and IEEE 1588-2008 synchronization mechanisms. Using Raisecom's iTN201 Carrier-Ethernet edge device powered by Microsemi’s TimeProvider® 5000, service providers can meet new synchronization and timing requirement to support 4G/LTE mobile network deployments.
Raisecom recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster to provide packet-based synchronization solutions for mobile backhaul deployments.
- Learn more about Raisecom's Packet Transport Portfolio
- Read Raisecom's press release announcing participation in SyncWorld
Telco Systems
Telco Systems , a BATM Company, and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over packet networks powered by Telco Systems T-Marc and T-Metro product lines.
- Learn more about Telco Systems solutions for migration to Packet Backhaul
- Read Press Release: Microsemi and Telco Systems Bring TDM Accuracy to Ethernet
Tellabs
Tellabs and Microsemi have performed extensive G.8261-based interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi and Tellabs 8600 aggregation product family.
- Read about Tellabs Mobile Backhaul solutions
TransPacket
TransPacket and Microsemi have performed extensive validation of synchronization distribution by transparent tunneling of IEEE 1588 packets with fixed delay through a network of TransPacket Ethernet Fusion H1 nodes. This validates deployment scenarios leveraging 1588 synchronization products by Microsemi over Ethernet-based networks powered by TransPacket Fusion networking products.
TransPacket recommends the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster to provide packet-based synchronization solutions for mobile backhaul deployments and for accurate time distribution in energy and utility grid networking.
- Read Press Release: TransPacket joins Microsemi Syncworld
- Learn more about TransPackets's Fusion networking
- Read about TransPacket's transparent time and synchronization transport in Ethernet networks
ZTE
ZTE and Microsemi have collaborated closely to perform interoperability tests that validate the deployment scenarios leveraging IEEE1588 synchronization products by Microsemi with ZTE bearer network products and base stations. Tests were conducted with the ZXCTN and ZXSDR product series.
ZTE thinks the Microsemi TimeProvider® 5000 1588 Grandmaster can provide time reference with the highest level of timing and frequency accuracy for telecommunication deployment.
- For more information, visit ZTE
