Accuracy, precision and stability have traditionally been used to describe the requirements for timing and synchronization. Although these timing metrics remain vital, a new set of requirements have become equally important with the goal of delivering better resiliency in critical infrastructure: prevention, restoration and recovery. A variety of technologies are being discussed to create a back-up to GNSS. The answer to greater resiliency does not lie in the number of timing sources, but rather in a timing architecture that incorporates these technologies. This presentation discusses how a Virtual Primary Reference Timing Clock (vPRTC) architecture is optimized for resilient timing.

Speakers: 

• Tony Flavin, Manager, Strategic Research, Chronos Technology Ltd
• Lee Cosart, Chair of ATIS SYNC Committee, Microchip  
• Barry Dropping, Associate Director, Product Line Management, Microchip

Over the past two decades, transportation-critical infrastructure sectors have widely adopted the use of GNSS-derived position, navigation and timing (PNT) to support their safety-critical operations. GNSS PNT’s extreme position and timing accuracy enables significant capacity and efficiency improvements, and this accuracy has been a primary driver for this evolution. However, the availability, integrity and continuity of PNT services are essential to maintain the safety and security of these systems and its users. GNSS disruption or manipulation, via intentional or unintentional jamming or spoofing, can directly impact transportation operations and potentially jeopardize public safety as well. This webinar will explore how GNSS is used by the transportation industry and discuss emerging strategies to build in monitoring, security and resiliency to provide an assured PNT framework for transportation use.

Speakers: 

• Mitch Narins, Principal Consultant and Owner, Strategic Synergies, LLC
• Guy Buesnel, CPhys, MInstP, FRIN PNT Security Technologist, Spirent
• Greg Wolff, Senior Product Line Manager, Frequency and Time Systems, Microchip

Today’s society has a ubiquitous dependence on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Consequently, resilient Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) in GNSS-denied environments has become critically important. Jamming—either unintentional or malicious—and spoofing incidents present challenges to systems that have come to rely on an always-available GNSS signal. During this webinar, we will focus on the importance of local time sources as a key contributor to resilient PNT. We will also present our broad timing portfolio and advances in timing solutions including low-power quartz oscillators, embedded atomic clocks and system-level atomic clocks to meet the most demanding GNSS-denied timing requirements.

Speakers:

• David Chandler, Product Line Manager, Frequency and Time Systems, Microchip
• David Bail, Director of Microchip Technology’s Vectron Oscillator Products, Microchip
• Stewart Hampton, Product Line Manager, Frequency and Time Systems , Microchip

In this podcast, Andrew Ward from Award Consulting speaks with Jim Olsen from Microchip about network synchronization. They discuss clocking, why it matters in Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) networks and why will it continue to be important in the future. You'll learn how timing works for TDM and what happens when a GPS source is lost. They will also explore what comes after BITS and how clocking is important for 5G networks.

If you're responsible for a TDM network, check out this episode to learn more about this critical but often overlooked piece of infrastructure.

In this episode, Brady Volpe of Nimble This and the Volpe Firm discusses PTP clocks with subject matter experts Jim Olsen from Microchip and Rob Jodrie from Syncworks. This discussion includes a high-level breakdown of PTP profiles, the evolution of PTP, boundary clocks, best practices and things to look out for. PTP impacts all operators—big, medium or small—when deploying Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) such as R-PHY nodes, 5G technology and other related technologies requiring precise timing.

In this educational and entertaining podcast, Shelby Skrhak from Ingram Micro speaks with Paul Skoog, senior product manager from Microchip, about network time servers. This podcast explores the central theme of time accuracy, reliability, and security of enterprise network time synchronization.  The discussion will also address issues with using “free time” from the Internet and how our SyncServer^® S600 network time server delivers the secure and reliable time required by the applications running in today’s modern enterprise networks.