TimeProvider® 4100

Microchip TimeProvider® 4100 | State of the Art Technology

Integrate Microchip’s TimeProvider 4100 to achieve precise time synchronization and ensure secure, resilient IEEE 1588-compliant grandmasters. The TimeProvider 4100 series helps minimize interference and maximize wireless spectrum utilization.

Superior Redundancy
Intuitive Configuration
Efficient Deployment
Made in the USA

Make the smart investment for core sites, aggregation locations, fronthaul, or backhaul deployment. Experience an adaptable hardware platform with unique software options and versatile operation modes that adapt to evolving industry demands.

TimeProvider® 4100

TimeProvider 4100: Precise Synchronization Solution
The TP 4100 serves as an IEEE 1588 v2 PTP grandmaster, offering PTP, NTP, and SyncE capabilities. Meeting Primary Reference Time Clock Class A, B, ePRTC specifications, and Class C and D specifications for multidomain boundary clocks, this device boasts key features such as:

High capacity: Supports up to 1,000 PTP unicast clients at 128 PPS
Reliable performance: Fanless passive thermal operation ensures stability
Redundancy: Software mechanisms enable two active and standby units
Advanced technology: Patented enhanced APTS with Automatic Asymmetry Compensation (AAC)
Secure operation: Zero-trust security grandmaster with robust timing protection
Performance monitoring: Includes phase and legacy signal monitoring

Upgrade your critical infrastructure with the TimeProvider 4100 for accurate, reliable, and secure time synchronization.

Microchip TimeProvider TP4100 1G 10G Module

T1/E1 Module OCXO or Rubidium

Microchip TimeProvider TP4100 T1 E1 Module

1G/10G Module with OCXO or Rubidium

Base Module with OCXO or Rubidium

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White Papers

Microchip Timing for cRAN Fronthaul LTE

Best Engineering Practices for Cable Timing Architecture – A study of DOCSIS 3.1

TimeProvider 4100 GNSS Antenna Kits and Accessories

Improving Mobile Bachkaul Network Reliability with Carrier Class IEEE 1588-2008 (PTP)

Synchronization for Next Generation Networks—The PTP Telecom Profile

IEEE 1588 Precise Time Protocol: The new standard in time synchronization

Application Note

Security hardened NTP Reflector and packet limiting/Monitoring for TimeProvider 4100
Rubidium Holdover for PTP Phase Synchronization Applications
Premier Holdover Performance with Microchip Rubidium Technology

Technical Brochure

Zero Trust Networks

TP 4100 Compliance Report

5G Services and Sync Importance

TimeProvider® 4100 Series Release 2.3

TimeProvider® 4100 (vPRTC) White Paper

Securing Critical Timing Infrastructure White Paper

TimeProvider® 4100 ePRTC Performance Compliance Report

Microchip TimeProvider® 4100 – State of the Art Performance

Integrate Microchip’s TimeProvider 4100 into your vital communication networks to achieve precise time synchronization and ensure secure, resilient IEEE 1588-compliant grandmasters. The TimeProvider 4100 series, with its three models, helps minimize interference and maximize wireless spectrum utilization, making it a smart investment for core sites, aggregation locations, fronthaul, or backhaul deployment. Experience an adaptable hardware platform with unique software options and versatile operation modes that adapt to evolving industry demands.

TimeProvider®4100: Precise Synchronization Solution

The TP 4100 serves as an IEEE 1588 v2 PTP grandmaster, offering PTP, NTP, and SyncE capabilities. Meeting Primary Reference Time Clock Class A, B, ePRTC specifications, and Class C and D specifications for multidomain boundary clocks, this device boasts key features such as:

High capacity: Supports up to 1,000 PTP unicast clients at 128 PPS
Reliable performance: Fanless passive thermal operation ensures stability
Redundancy: Software mechanisms enable two active and standby units
Advanced technology: Patented enhanced APTS with Automatic Asymmetry Compensation (AAC)
Secure operation: Zero-trust security grandmaster with robust timing protection
Performance monitoring: Includes phase and legacy signal monitoring

Upgrade your critical infrastructure with the TimeProvider 4100 for accurate, reliable, and secure time synchronization.

TimeProvider 4100 T1/E1 Module

TimeProvider 4100 1G/10G Module

TimeProvider 4100 Base Module

Technical Brochure

Zero Trust Networks

TimeProvider 4100 Product Highlights

In the virtual Primary Reference Time Clock (vPRTC) architecture, to minimize the dependency on GNSS, receivers are only required in the core enhanced Primary Reference Timing Clock (ePRTC) sites where they can be protected and monitored to shield the network from the risk of GNSS jamming or spoofing threats.

The TP4100 ensures redundancy via bi-directional east and west timing flows to local source clocks in aggregation sites with 100 ns of accuracy.

You can configure our TP4100 clock in the following ways:

In ePRTC operation mode to provide 30 ns accuracy at the source of timing chain
As a high-performance boundary clock to deliver high accuracy over a secure optical network
As a gateway clock on the protected PTP southbound timing flow towards 5G Remote Radio Heads (RRHs)

Key Benefits

Flexible Technology

The TimeProvider 4100 supports legacy and new technologies such as Frequency, Phase, E1/T1, IEEE 1588. Additionally, it handles different modes of operation: Gateway Clock, HP BC, ePRTC.

Resilient Solution

Capable to manage more than one PRS. As a back up to GNSS, the TimeProvider 4100 handles also PTP Input, APTS, AAC. Available with MiniOCXO, OCXO, or Rubidium oscillator, and dual DC power inputs.

State of the Art

The TimeProvider 4100 supports existing and future standards/trends, including 1588 Phase profiles, and PRTC compliance. It is a modern platform with the latest electronics – FPGA.

Management

Provides monitoring for PTP, 1pps, and a presentation GUI. Compatible with TimePictra platform that provides full FCAPS for monitoring and management of customer’s Sync Portfolio available.

Key Features

IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) grandmaster
SyncE
NTP Reflector with highest capacity and NTP Daemon (NTPd) adds NTP MD5 authentication.
GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, QZSS and Galileo)—and SBAS support
Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC) Class A and Class B
Enhanced PRTC (ePRTC) ITU-T G.8272.1, 30ns
Reliable Fanless Passive Thermal Operation
Oscillator options—mini OCXO, OCXO and Rubidium (Rb)
IPv6/IPv4 on all ports including Management (OAM)- Standard base unit with 8 Ethernet ports, 4 E1/T1 ports, 1 craft port, 2× 1PPS/ToD ports, 2× 1PPS/10 MHz ports
Optional internal expansion module with 16 E1/T1 ports for a total of 20 E1/T1 outputs per unit
Optional internal expansion module with 4 SFP and 4 SFP+ for 10G support, 100M Fast Ethernet, and 1G fanout
Support for multiple IEEE 1588v2 profiles per unit
Support for: Management and Client and client or master
Support for high-performance multidomain boundary clock with class C and D accuracy (new operation mode)
High performance: 790 PTP unicast clients at 128 PPS and NTPr 20,000 tps per port, for a total of 160,000 tps per unit and NTPd at 500 tps on 3 ports for a total of 1,500 tps per unit
Fully supports ITU-T profiles for phase synchronization: G.8275.1 and G.8275.2
Fully supports ITU-T profiles for frequency synchronization: G.8265.1, Telecom 2008 and default
ITU-T G.8273.4 APTS with enhanced automatic asymmetry compensation over multiple network variations
Monitoring and measurement capabilities
TimePictra® synchronization management system support

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