Nokia Siemens Networks Syncs Up with Symmetricom on Mobile Backhaul

(Business News & Technology News, 3 Apr 2008)

Nokia Siemens Networks is teaming up with Symmetricom to offer operators a solution to the challenge of keeping network bandwidth capacity up to pace with the ever-increasing demand from data applications. The two companies will be introducing the industry's first open standard Timing over Packet solution to synchronize base stations over the packet-based backhaul networks vital to sustaining profitability.

An important component of Nokia Siemens Networks' Timing over Packet solution is Symmetricom's TimeProvider 5000, which distributes a network reference clock to a large number of base stations. The base station's ability to synchronize its radio frequency based on that received clock is an equally important component of the solution. Timing over Packet is an open and future -proof solution, based on the IEEE1588 version 2 standard. It addresses the synchronization requirements of both today as well as forthcoming 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless networks.

The synchronization of base stations is a critical building block for mobile backhaul networks. Therefore Nokia Siemens Networks offers a host of technologies, which enable the company to adapt to the individual requirements of mobile operators.

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