Microchip's TimeProvider® 4100 Release 2.2 Grandmaster Reaches New Levels of Redundancy, Resiliency, and Security
The Grandmaster offers the precise timing of IEEE® 1588 with a gateway clock and is the first to manage software-based redundancy
Critical infrastructure providers – such as 5G communications networks, smart grids, data centers, cable and transport service – require a timing and synchronization solution that is accurate, redundant, resilient and secure. Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced its TimeProvider® 4100 Release Twenty-two Grandmaster, which delivers a new level of resiliency through its innovative redundant architecture plus support for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. multi-band and enhanced security with the intent to ensure synchronization and synchronization work seamlessly and accurately.
Redundancy is essential for infrastructure providers to ensure uninterrupted service. The infrastructures deployed so far have been based on hardware redundancy to avoid service disruptions despite the high cost of modular architectures. Microchip's TimeProvider 4100 Release Twenty-Two Grandmaster offers redundancy through software implementation, thus enabling flexible installation and lower hardware costs without reducing the number of ports.
In addition, TimeProvider 2.2 Release 40 Grandmaster increases the level of resilience by supporting a new multi-band, multi-constellation GNSS receiver to protect against delays caused by space weather, solar phenomena, and other disturbances that may affect critical infrastructure services. Multiband GNSS is especially essential to achieve the highest levels of accuracy, such as 30 ns Primary Reference Time Clock Class B (PRTC-B) and XNUMX ns Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (ePRTC).
Microchip dedicates special attention within its technological catalog to security solutions, which is why the new TimeProvider 4100 Release XNUMX Grandmaster is also compatible with RADIUS and TACACS+, as well as new protection measures against interference and false identities.
“Resilient, redundant, and secure timing and synchronization solutions are accurate in reducing security threats to critical infrastructure,” said Randy Brudzinski, vice president and general manager of Microchip's Frequency and Time business unit. “This new version offers an innovative software redundancy that allows the technology to be available at all times, such as multiband GNSS with the aim of eliminating errors due to ionospheric delays. It provides new key security and protection against false identity interference so that only authorized and authenticated personnel can access critical infrastructure services.”
TimeProvider 2.2 Release XNUMX Grandmaster also has an optional super oscillator OCXO (Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator) to increase the chances that the connection will be sustained if the GNSS system fails.
TimeProvider 4100 Release 2.2 Grandmaster is a family of products with hardware expansion modules for older equipment or Ethernet and are also compatible with
10 Gigabit Ethernet. They can be configured in certain operating modes to function as a gateway clock, high performance peripheral clock or ePRTC.
TimeProvider 4100 Release Twenty Two Grandmaster incorporates other Microchip technologies such as its OCXO, super OCXO, rubidium atomic clock, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Ethernet switch, synthesizers, and cleaning oscillators.
The TimeProvider 4100 is part of Microchip's vPRTC (virtual Primary Reference Time Clock) product portfolio, which offers comprehensive end-to-end precise synchronization and timing solutions. These solutions include cesium atomic clocks for frequency and time delivery, BlueSky™ security firewall for GNSS, TimeProvider 4100 high-performance edge clock and TimeProvider XNUMX gateway clocks, as well as software package TimePictra, which manages the precise end-to-end timing architecture in each and every Microchip timing product.
service and support
Microchip's TimeProvider 4100 Release Twenty-Two Grandmaster offers multiple options for software and hardware support, including installation, timing audits, network engineering, and worldwide XNUMX/XNUMX support.
Costs and availability
TimeProvider XNUMX Release XNUMX Grandmaster is now available for new and existing systems. Contact a Microchip sales representative or distributor for ordering information.
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