China Mobile Selects Symmetricom's TimeProvider 5000 Grandmaster Clock to Deploy IEEE 1588-2008 and Synchronous Ethernet for PTN Deployment

Symmetricom

today announced that China Mobile Limited

has selected Symmetricom's TimeProvider® 5000 Grandmaster Clock to deploy IEEE 1588 and Synchronous Ethernet for its Packet Transport Network deployment. SyncE provides frequency synchronization for Ethernet networks and PTP is the standard for providing frequency and phase synchronization over packet networks to support 4G/LTE deployments. The proliferation of smartphones and growing demand for video and data services have prompted service providers such as China Mobile to transition from time division multiplexing based network to a Packet Transport Network. China Mobile has chosen to deploy SyncE in the network core and PTP over the top to the base stations.