DOCSIS Solutions - TimeCreator1000_THMB TimeCreator 1000 DTI Server - Symmetricom - #1

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TELECOM SOLUTIONS TimeCreator 1000 DTI Server KEY FEATURES • CableLabs DTI Compliant • High Reliability/Carrier-Class • Flexible Architecture in a 1RU Chassis • Root or Slave DTI Server Capable • Up to 12 DTI Client Connections • SMNP Manageable • Automatic Client Health Monitoring & Configuration • NTP Server Option • GPS Option for Expanded Capabilities and Compliance • Optional Redundancy • AC or DC Power Options • Software Upgradeable for Future Standards INTRODUCTION The TimeCreator™ 1000 DTI Server is designed to deliver the most reliable and precise time and frequency synchronization ever designed for communication networks. The TimeCreator 1000 enables operators to deploy with flexibility to balance economics, scalability, functionality and carrier-class reliability. TimeCreator 1000 is a compliant DOCSIS Timing Interface (DTI) Server with optional GPS traceability, redundant clock cards, redundant power supplies and an NTP server option. TimeCreator 1000 is a fundamental part of a cable operator’s headend or hub network deploying M-CMTS, DOCSIS 3.0 or Business Services over DOCSIS. Cable operators have made great strides to upgrade and converge their services onto a unified network architecture. The drivers behind this movement are clear: lower QAM prices, higher bandwidth, flexible spectrum management and new services. Today, broadband cable operators are in a fierce market battle to innovate their competitive service platform for future success. They are rapidly escalating current services to satisfy hungry consumer demand for high-speed, high-bandwidth networks. In addition, they are looking to build secure, fast and cost-effective, state-of-the-art network infrastructures to run these new applications. TimeCreator 1000’s integrated DOCSIS Timing Interface Server capabilities ensure that the M-CMTS core, Edge QAM and upstream are synchronized to nanosecond levels to support the existing DOCSIS requirements for frequency and timestamps that existed in the traditional CMTS. With TimeCreator 1000 in an M-CMTS architecture, a cable modem receives its synchronization from the Edge QAM. This synchronization to other cable modems properly transmits to the upstream burst receiver. Additionally, the M-CMTS core is synchronized to the Edge QAM to schedule, correct and insert MPEG timestamps for video. TimeCreator 1000 manages the synchronization quality of the network not only at the server side, but at the client output as well. TimeCreator 1000 continuously monitors each individual client’s performance as well as automatically calibrating the client and detecting any timing loops at startup. Various configurations of TimeCreator 1000 are available. For carrier-class systems supporting voice and other critical applications, high reliability can be achieved by configuring the TimeCreator 1000 with redundant power supplies and clock cards for hitless switching. TimeCreator 1000 supports GPS for applications where either Stratum 1 traceability is needed for interconnecting sites, interfacing with other carriers, Business Services, location management or Time of Day services. TimeCreator 1000 also supports an optional NTP server to increase the reliability and accuracy of NTP used throughout the network including PacketCable and DOCSIS modem requirements. TimeCreator 1000