SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/
-- Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide
leader in precision time and frequency technologies, today
announced a new timing solution that meets the stringent
microsecond accuracy requirements of Smart Grid substations.
Specifically designed for substation operations, such as wide area
measurement systems, traveling wave fault locators and sampled
values, the Symmetricom SyncServer SGC-1500 Smart Grid Clock offers
power utility companies accurate, secure and reliable timing and
synchronization for their mission-critical operations. This means
companies like Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) will be able
to mitigate outages with real-time monitoring for grid stress,
frequency instability, voltage instability and reliability
margins.
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The Smart Grid has brought about power technology advancements
that fundamentally change substation operations. Power equipment
and their data networks are shifting from simple, reactive control
and reporting to proactive, real-time management and operations
control. Thus, advanced synchronization and timing are now more
critical than ever, and it's precisely what the SGC-1500 Smart Grid
Clock is designed to address; enabling power equipment to operate
more efficiently and closer to its operational limits. For example,
one microsecond accuracy is required by the phasor measurement unit
(PMU) for real-time network situational awareness and overall
operational efficiency. Without accurate time stamps, PMU data has
limited value. For power utility companies, that translates into
enhanced network utilization rates as well as smarter management
and mixing of renewable and traditional power sources.
"Power and utility companies are increasingly looking to source
the latest technology innovations in order to modernize their
infrastructure," said Greg Neichin,
executive vice president, Cleantech Group. "Over the past three
years, we have tracked more than $700m in venture investment committed to
companies developing smart grid products. These are all
data-intensive applications that will rely heavily on precise
timing and synchronization, as well as more advanced analytics to
process these vast streams of new information."
"The Smart Grid architecture and related standards require a new
approach to timing distribution across the overall network," said
Manish Gupta, vice president of
marketing and business development for Symmetricom. "Symmetricom
brings extensive experience in delivering precise time to the
communications, government, and enterprise markets. Serving the
power utility telecom network over the past 10 years, Symmetricom
is ideally positioned to meet the emerging timing requirements of
the Smart Grid."
The SyncServer SGC-1500 meets key requirements of Smart Grid
substations, including:
- Microsecond accuracy and resiliency — referencing GPS
satellite signals, the Symmetricom Smart Grid Clock distributes
timing with microsecond accuracy over the local area network (LAN)
using the IEEE 1588 v2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Power Profile
or IRIG-B time code.
- IEC 61850 — the International Electrotechnical
Commission's (IEC) standards for the design of electrical
substation automation, which requires microsecond timing to
identify and mitigate a potential fault condition in real time.
This standard also identifies important electrical hardening
requirements for substation environments.
- NERC CIP ― the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC) reliability and security standards for Critical
Infrastructure Protection (CIP), which calls for high strength
security protocols.
The SyncServer SGC-1500 comes with additional industry leading
capabilities such as a built-in IEEE 1588 v2 Telecom Profile input
option. This enables the Smart Grid Clock to derive time from
the communications wide area network (WAN), thus eliminating the
need to have GPS at every substation and PMU. The Rubidium
atomic clock option offers holdover capability in the event of GPS
disruption. These options result in a highly cost effective and
resilient solution for power utilities.
For more information about the SyncServer SGC-1500 Smart Grid
Clock, please visit:
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ieee-1588-ptp-solutions/ptp-servers/SyncServer-SGC-1500-Smart-Grid-Clock
About Symmetricom, Inc.
Symmetricom (NASDAQ:SYMM), a world leader in precise time
solutions, sets the world's standard for time. The company
generates, distributes and applies precise time for the
communications, aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure and metrology
industries. Symmetricom's customers, from communications service
providers and network equipment manufacturers to governments and
their suppliers worldwide, are able to build more reliable networks
and systems by using the company's advanced timing technologies,
atomic clocks, services and solutions. All products support today's
precise timing standards, including GPS-based timing, IEEE 1588
(PTP), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Synchronous Ethernet and
DOCSIS® timing. Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For
more information, visit: http://www.symmetricom.com or join the
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