4-Microchip Sync Solution Update (230805) .Rev1
4-Microchip Sync Solution Update (230805) .Rev1
4-Microchip Sync Solution Update (230805) .Rev1
• 5G Deployments Worldwide
• Timing Technology
• Collaboration Cases
• Solution Update
• BlueSky
• Cesium
• TP4100
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5G Worldwide
Key Customer Priorities
TimeProvider 4100
Fastest Growing PackeTime Product in History
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Family for End-to-End Deployment
vPRTC for 5G Resilient Timing
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Collaboration Cases
USA Tier 1 Architecture
BBU/DU
BBU/DU
BBU/DU
TP5000
FHG
G.8275.2
G.8275.1
PTP from
TP5000 APTS
FHG
Packet Network
G.8275.1 TP4100 G.8275.2
G.8275.2
BBU
CPRI
Router or Switch PTP
cRAN Hub
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Timing Technologies
Overview and Trend
Time and frequency source clocks
Source of Time
PRTC-A
+/-100 ns
PRTC-B
+/-40 ns
Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC)
ePRTC
Rubidium +/-30 ns
Multiple days
of Holdover
Cesium
Primary Reference Clock (PRC)
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Source clock timing technology
Self-contained, highly-reliable PRS/PRC
Antenna not required
Can be used to hold phase and time
Time-of-day not available
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PRS/PRTC – Global Positioning System, GPS
GPS
Receiver
All GPS satellites contain multiple Stratum 1 Cesium standards. A GPS Receiver will derive the accuracy of the
Cesium on the satellites and provide a very stable Stratum 1 clock and accurate time, traceable to UTC. The GPS
satellites circle the earth twice a day. Because of this, the GPS Receiver needs to calculate its geographic position, so it
knows when the next satellite is in view. The more Accurate the position fix the more the more accurate the timing.
Network Synchronization - Technology
NTP/PTP telecom Applications
Why Two Time Transfer Protocols
NTP Applications PTP Applications
• SLA verification • SLA verification
• One Way Delay Measurements • One Way Delay Measurements
• Network Management • Circuit Emulation
• Time Stamped Events • PTP clients for T1 Reconstruction
• IPTV Microsoft Media Room • Mobile Backhaul
• STB (Set Top Boxes) and Video servers • Circuit Emulation
• Next Generation Elements • Frequency Stability for G.8275.1
• IMS, Media and Signaling Gateways routers and switches
• Data Centers • LTE Base Stations
• Servers • UTC Traceable time/phase and
Frequency
• Security
• Time sensitive networking (TSN)
• IPSec tunneling
• gPTP profile
• Authentication
The NTP/PTP Trade-Off and Decision Points
Accuracy Effort
NTP delivers
millisecond Milliseconds Best Effort NTP is easy to
accuracy implement
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Network Based Timing Services PTP Profiles
• DSCP markings of 46 or higher recommended • Boundary Clocks have classes (A-B-C-D) for
for PTP flows levels of time error mitigation in the switches
• Assisted Partial On Path Support (APTS) is a PTP • Every switch in the PTP path is a BC
network-based timing service used as a GNSS • Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) is
proxy backup recommended for Full On Path Support
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Relative and Absolute timing alignment
• Relative time and phase alignment
• 5G carrier aggregation requires 260 or 130 nanoseconds relative phase timing
alignment
• A user handset connected to two different 5G TDD component carriers requires
the component carriers to be phase aligned compared to each other
• Component carriers in same or two different radios
• Absolute time and phase alignment
• 5G TDD technology requires +/-1.5 microsecond absolute timing alignment
• Radios in the same spectrum will interfere with each other if they do not transmit
in their assigned time slots
The position of two people in the same building can be relative (compared
to each other) or absolute (GPS coordinates)
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Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (ePRTC)
• ePRTC specifications
• Accuracy with GNSS <+/- 30 Nanoseconds UTC
• Holdover <100 nanoseconds UTC 14 days
• Typically, 60 to 90 days
• Microchip ePRTC compliance report available
• ePRTC use cases
• Virtual Primary Reference Clock (vPRTC)
• Set time to within UTC 100 nanoseconds to create a PRTC location
• Assisted Partial Timing Support (APTS)
• Hold time to create a GNSS proxy at a PRTC location
Virtual Primary Reference Clock (vPRTC) is a Virtual Autonomous Time Scale Distribution System
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Enhanced and Virtual Primary Reference Time Clocks
ePRTC Source of Time vPRTC
• ITU Standard G.8272.1 • Concept, not a standard
• Timing system • PRTC with no GNSS
• Components • Components
• ePRTC source clocks
• GNSS Firewall/Mgmt
• Optical or OTN network
• Optional
• PRTC (virtual)
• GNSS timing receiver • PTP from ePRTC to vPRTC
• ePRTC algorithms
• Cesium atomic clock
Firewall
Firewall
Bidirectional PTP Timing Flows
PTP PTP
West
Class C BC < 5 hops, Class D BC < 20 hops East
HPBC
HPBC HPBC
HPBC High Performance PTP G.8275.1 No GNSS
Boundary Clock Southbound
PRTC 100
vPRTC vPRTC
nanoseconds
timing timing
Timing Flow
Services Services
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Optical Timing Channel Vs Optical Supervisory
Channel Bidirectional
Optical Timing Channel
T-BC / 3R
over single fiber
OTC Filters
DWDM Traffic
DWDM Traffic
Mux/Demux ROADM Optical OSC ILA OSC Optical ROADM Mux/Demux
Amps Filters Filters Amps
Node
DWDM Node A DWDM Node B
Optical Supervisory Channel
over two fibers
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Main Methods for Accurate PTP transfer
Distribution over Long Distance
• OTC - Optical Timing Channel
• leverages dedicated lambda for
timing and optical splitters &
CWDM filters to by-pass ROADM
Enhance holdover
Locked days/Holdover
6/6
14/14
30/30
40/40
Official Consent target in
December 2023
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What are the Next Hot Topics?
Coordinated Cesiums
Excellent capabilities
BUT Requires dual Cesium at same site
Cesium A Cesium B
DWDM
TP4100 TP4100
SyncE
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What are the Next Hot Topics?
National Metrology Lab as a Source
• Metrology Labs may only have
1PPS and 10MHz outputs, no
ToD
• TP4100 ePRTC & Gateway
clock now allow combination :
• 1PPS
• any ToD epoch as a Time source :
a) NTP, b) PTP, c) GNSS, d) ToD e)
manual time.
• Two Scenarios for official time
• TP4100 at country time institute
• TP4100 at customer connected to
time institute
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What are the Next Hot Topics?
cnPRTC • Not a standard yet, NO ONE has cnPRTC, we are NOT LATE
• Joint article to be published in April ’23, Standard ‘24 or
later
• cnPRTC requires multiple products, it is an architecture
• ePRTC TP4100 units are the cornerstone of cnPRTC
• Agreement Algorithm is main piece of innovation (software
on server)
• Atomic Clock Systems (Cesiums and/or successors)
• Total of 6 : 2x local dual Cesium, 2xCesiums on E direction,
2xCesium on W direction
• TP4xxx units used in long distance mesh
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What are the Next Hot Topics?
White Rabbit
• Real question : what do customers need?
• What level of accuracy do they really need?
• High accuracy is the need
• White Rabbit is an example of how to achieve it
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BlueSky Firewall 2200
Update
BlueSky GNSS Firewall Deployment models
Optional Cesium
GPS Splitter
Optional MAC
Validated
Hardened
Rb
SyncServer S600/S650
Equipment requiring
Equipment requiring GPS/L1 signal
GPS/L1 signal
RF Power Detection – example of a “knock-off”
GPS RF Power level operates at a very low signal
level (both SNR and C/No)
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Time Jump Anomaly
Timing anomalies can be both sudden jumps in time or
more gradual time shifts
The timescale internal in the BlueSky GNSS Firewall is the
detector for identifying these anomalies
300nS jump
When detected, the firewall continues to operate using its
internal timescale
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Position Movement Anomaly
Anomaly position detector can be set to
the desired threshold, for example 10
Position Movement
meters
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Market Momentum
Deployments across the globe and in multiple sectors
Global Deployments
• Norway, Spain, Germany,
Israel, Canada, Mexico,
Columbia, Vietnam, Japan,
South Korea, China, USA,
India, France, Finland, South
Africa, United Kingdom,
Ireland, Netherlands, Serbia,
Libya
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BlueSky GNSS Firewall 2200 - NEW
Wider band to allow
pass-through of Beidou
BlueSky GNSS Firewall 2200 and L5
Same Price
BlueSky GNSS Firewall
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New Software Release 3.0 - NEW
• New Trusted Time Anomaly Detector
• Compare Network Time and GNSS Time at
multiple locations simultaneously
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GPS Subframe Reference Detection
Subframes from Remote Firewall compared to Local Firewall
Firewalls can be in:
- Different locations of building
- Different buildings
- Remote locations
- Across the globe
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Comprehensive Threat Detection
TimePictra + BlueSky GNSS Firewall provides BlueSky GNSS Firewall includes
embedded “local analysis” like
visibility across entire critical infrastructure
BlueSky Option in SyncServer
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TimeCesium Updates
• Microchip has been providing ePRTC
systems since 2020. As we have
gained experience through
manufacturing and improved
modeling, we have decided to offer
two grades of TimeCesium going
forward for ePRTC solutions with our
TP4100 and , standard performance
and enhanced performance.
• Standard performance units provide
1 holdover compliance to G.8272.1
• Enhanced performance units provide
2 holdover compliance to G.8272.1
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TimeProvider 4100
Update
TimeProvider 4100
A Track Record of Fast Paced Improvements
And now….v2.3
• Security
• TACACS+ & Radius 2FA with full AAA.
• IEEE 1588-2019 multi-pronged security model
• Prong C: Architecture Guidance
• Prong D: Monitoring and Management Mechanisms