Utility Timing
Secure & Resilient
Turnkey Timing Solutions For Critical Infrastructure
Whether it’s enabling the smart grid, GPS security, enhancing grid reliability, managing distributed energy resources, or securing critical infrastructure, Syncworks is your trusted partner in maintaining operational excellence with cutting-edge timing technology.
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Solutions
Utility providers, equipped with robust infrastructure capable of extending broadband services to underserved “last mile” areas, require precise and reliable timing solutions to ensure efficient operations and regulatory compliance. Syncworks offers an array of advanced timing technologies, including Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC), virtual Primary Reference Time Clock (vPRTC), and enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (ePRTC), each designed to meet the rigorous demands of utility networks.
Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC)
A PRTC utilizes a high-quality, stable oscillator synchronized to a GPS or other GNSS signal, providing network-wide time synchronization essential for broadband distribution, ensuring synchronized operations across vast utility networks, including broadband services.
Virtual Primary Reference Time Clock (vPRTC)
vPRTC technology distributes precise time virtually across a network, making it an ideal solution for utilities that extend broadband services to remote areas. This setup ensures continuity and precision in timekeeping, essential for maintaining service quality in broadband and utility operations, even in geographically dispersed regions.
Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (ePRTC)
An ePRTC system combines the accuracy of a PRTC with high-stability oscillators like Cesium or Rubidium, maintaining accuracy better than 30 nanoseconds relative to UTC. This capability is crucial for critical broadband applications and smart grid operations where precise timing is essential for data integrity and system reliability.
Broadband Infrastructure
By integrating these timing solutions into their broadband infrastructure, utility providers can enhance their service delivery, providing both essential utility services and high-speed internet to communities that large ISPs may overlook. This not only optimizes the use of existing infrastructure but also significantly contributes to bridging the digital divide, offering a dual benefit of enhanced utility management and community service.
Technology
Microchip TimeProvider® 4100
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
Microchip SyncServer® S600/650
Clock synchronization is a critical aspect of modern power systems, facilitating accurate data exchange, coordinated control, and effective monitoring. Let’s work together to enhance the reliability and stability of the grid by ensuring that all your various components operate in harmony with a common time reference.
Applications include:
- Digital and Hybrid Substations
- Smart Grid
- Distributed Energy Resource Integration
- GPS Security
- APTS
- vPRTC
About Syncworks
For over twenty years, Syncworks has been evaluating, testing, designing, and implementing timing networks for telecom, cable, utility, and enterprise customers in the US and the Caribbean. We are a well-known and trusted partner and critical supplier to major network operators. As a diamond partner to Microchip and a skilled integrator of other vendor products, we can provide options for the most performant, resilient, and economical timing network possible. We specialize in ensuring that critical networks can survive disruptions like GPS jamming and spoofing. And we provide expert support, sparing, and repairs for everything we install leveraging the largest inventory of related products and components in the industry.
For more information, contact sales@syncworks.com or call (904) 280-1234