Synchronization Market

Time is in everywhere – April 2018

Global Manufacturer telecom nodes & instruments

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Synchronization is an essential prerequisite for many industries to operate. It’s fundamental for mobile network, defense, financial institutions, transport, data integrity, and without correct timing all these organizations will suffer errors and services can suffer outages. ‘Loss of synchronization’ problems can be difficult to diagnose and resolve quickly and add to operational costs. Poor synchronization affects customer satisfaction and is therefore revenue affecting too. This is why Precise Time synchronization is increasingly needed to run the digital infrastructure efficiently.

Accurate Time Source Is Imperative

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Synchronization Markets

Synchronisation is crucial to a range of strategic activities. This is the case for Critical Infrastructure (CI) for maintaining such vital functions as health, safety, security, economic and social well-being of people:

Financial institutions 4G/5G Mobile Backhaul Power Utilities Defense / Police Fiber Optic Networks and PON Airports, Railways, Motorway.

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Size of the synchronization market

The Synchronization market is mainly driven by Telecoms which represents around 90% of overall GNSS device shipments. Finance is a mature market, where PTP is increasingly considered. Energy is foreseen in the coming years as use of improved measurement and control systems is becoming widespread.

Installed baseShipments

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Trading Clocks in Financial institutions

Financial institutions, hedge funds and market-makers need to address a variety of challenges with accurate, traceable time for their critical networks and network elements. High frequency trading requires real-time decisions based on microsecond time accuracy in order to remain competitive. Regulators mandate for highly precision and traceable timing to confirm when transactions occur including time accuracy, granularity and drift that affect any Financial operation, credit card payment, and stock market movement.

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The automation of the power grid requires a synchronism for peak-hour billing, generation of virtual energy and the control of failures particularly for automatic protection. When a substation detects an event it is time-stamped and transmitted for monitoring and control. Phasors as a source for timing are migrating to PTP while clocks are deployed across the power grids for network monitoring and automatic protection to increase the accuracy and redundancy.

Power Utilities (i)

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Synch is required due to distributed nature of the Smart Grid and need to balance generation & demand correlation:

Power can’t be stored it is generated ‘on demand’ Differential Protection (Iin must be Iout) Instrumentation and control systems Real-time billing (price is different day/night)

Power Utilities (ii)

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Time is a key resource of the Air Navigation Systems to ensure the proper functioning. Inherited signals such as IRIG-B, NTP and TDM are still in use, but progressively they are being replaced by PTP time-stamping systems to provide a unique, accurate and consistent signal synchronization based on atomic clocks disciplined by GNSS and distributed through IP networks throughout the territory.

Air Traffic Control

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Modern railway consume energy when they start, but when they break the engine rotates backwards producing power back to the grid and this is happening anywhere in the network. Accurate synchronization is essential to ensure optimal operation of converter stations at all times. Services based location, autonomous driving all require precise timing More and more objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate by means of IoT an then leading to the standardization of protocols and developing specific PTP profiles.

Industry & Transport

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Organizations providing TV and Radio channels need to integrate synchronization infrastructures to provide precise timing and frequency control of their studio operations and broadcast transmissions. Reliable and accurate synchronization plays a critical role in the reliable operation of both new digital equipment as well as legacy systems.

SMPTE profile ready for Broadcast Applications (March 2015)

Professional Broadcast

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Telecommunications uses the timing function for handover between base stations in wireless communications, time slot management purposes, event logging, billing, etc. The new frequency and phase synchronization allows higher density of terminals, reduce the size of mobile phones, reuse frequencies and share channels bidirectionally improving the whole set of the business. Small cells are increasingly used by telecom operators to enhance network capacity and coverage.

4G/LTE and 5G mobile networks

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Small Cells market… timing upbeat

Small cells and 5G Cells closer to the ground More capacity but higher radio density Subnanosecond timing accuracy

2017 global market 2.3M (+39%) $1.8 billion revenue (+20%) a demand driven by APAC, India & China $2.8 billion revenue in 2020 (+9.6% anual growth)

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The purpose of a PTP profile is to allow organizations to specify specific selections of attribute values and optional features of PTP that, when using the same transport protocol, inter-work and achieve a performance that meets the requirements of a particular application.

IEEE 1588 clause 19.3.1.1

PTP profiles

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We may identify six segments: Components Node Clocks Testers Integrators Applications

Synchronization Segments

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Synchronization Clocks manufacturers

Symmetricom: telecom, power grids and military networks Spectracom: defense, manufacturers ADVA: utilities, transport, telecom FEI: utilities, railways and telecommunications Meinberg: Energy, Research, Telecoms, Finance & Insurance

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Synchronization Testing World Market Size is over $50M

Calnex laboratories & field testers Viavi field testers Veex field testers Anritsu field testers Opwill field testers Albedo field testers

Test & Measurement market

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xGenius Transmission&Synchronization tester

Wander analysis/generation at 10Gbs

Fully integrated

Complete Ethernet testComplete E1/T1 test

Rubidium clock

Real-time MTIE, TDEV

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