Industrial Automation Magazine India

M6X Series: Managed Timing Engine With Gigabit Ethernet

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

As mobile network architectures evolve to support ever increasing bandwidth demands and to provide enhanced coverage, both outdoors and indoors, innovative synchronization solutions are required.

Synchronization requirements are also getting more stringent in the next generation 4G LTE-TDD and LTE-A infrastructure. Qulsar’s Managed Timing Engine (MTE) Module M60 series, is a fullpacket network based synchronization engine, designed for applications that require distribution of frequency and phase synchronization from edge nodes such as a Carrier Ethernet demarcation point, or macro base station that is aggregating traffic from small cells or substation clocks in power utility smart grids. The M60 series can also be used to build Time Servers or Edgemaster clocks to synchronize a small cell cluster.

The M60 series consists of two members – the M64 and the M68. The M64 provides PTP ordinary clock operation, operation, allowing it to act as a PTP master or slave. The M68 enhances this by adding a gateway clock capability. The M68 can operate as a traditional two-port boundary clock but in addition can take its time source from a local GNSS receiver to allow combined PTP and GNSS operation.

Features

• IEEE 1588-2008 PTP ordinary clock (M64) or gateway clock (M68)
• Supports ToD & 1PPS inputs from GPS receiver
• One-step and two-step clock
• Internetworking with both peer-to- peer and end-to- end transparent clocks
• Multicast and unicast operation
• Support 8 slaves at 16 packets per second, 4 slaves at 32 packets per second
• Low power, small form factor
• Telecom, power and default pro?les
• Fully transparent, low latency, pass through traffic
• Industry leading algorithms for G.8261 test suite

Applications

• Small cells and macro-cells (eNodeBs)
• Mobile Backhaul carrier ethernet equipment
• Power smart grid time synchronization
• Sensor network slave design
• Internet of Things and Industrial automation precision timing

 Qulsar Inc.USA, Tel:+1(408)715-1098, Email:[email protected]