| ZTE Selects IPClock as Partner for IEEE1588v2 in WiMAX Base Stations |
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IPClock’s IEEE1588v2 clock synchronization products make GPS redundant in Femto cells and Pico cells Rehovot, Israel – June 15, 2009. IPClock Ltd., a leading provider of clock synchronization over packet products, announced today that ZTE Corporation has selected IPClock’s IEEE1588v2 Slave and Master products to synchronize ZTE’s Pico and Femto WiMAX base station product lines. ZTE is a world famous telecommunication solution provider, and its WiMAX solution has already been deployed in 26 countries by more than 40 operators. The indoor and outdoor Pico cells E9200/E9201 are using IEEE1588v2 clock synchronization over packet connecting to ZTE’s TPS10 IEEE1588v2 Servers. The innovative solution can save both the GPS receiver expense and operating expense, significantly increasing the competitive advantage of the operators. ”In the past year, 1588v2 received major recognition by both Tier 1 mobile operators and vendors as the near unanimous standard for clock synchronization over Ethernet in Mobile Backhaul networks," stated Michael Howard, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research. “However, the 1588v2 standard provides no information about how clock recovery should be implemented, so clock recovery quality is a major issue even though 1588v2 is being deployed in live networks. The bottom line is that 1588v2 has little value unless it provides the requisite clock quality for both FDD and TDD." “We are very proud to have ZTE as our customer,” said Motti Goren, CEO at IPClock. “ZTE is a worldwide market leader, and their endorsement of IPClock technology and products highlights IPClock’s increasing competitive advantage in the growing global clock synchronization market.” IPClock’s IEEE1588v2 product portfolio includes the IPC2713 software-implemented IEEE1588v2 Slave and the IPC60000 software-implemented IEEE1588v2 Master. The IPC2713 implementing IEEE1588v2 Slave is optimized for providing high quality frequency synchronization, phase alignment, and Time of Day (ToD) over packet switched networks. It is an application-agnostic, cost-effective, reliable, and standard-compliant IEEE1588v2 Slave for applications requiring high performance. The IPC60000, implementing a low-cost IEEE1588v2 Master, allows easy integration of 1588v2 Master functionality into communication equipment. Both the IPC2713 and the IPC60000 utilize a state-of-the-art clock synchronization algorithms suite designed to meet packet switched networks’ inherent impairments with proved excellent clock synchronization performance. About IPClock Press Contact |