The Essential Foundation of Air Traffic Control: Precise Time Synchronization
- Enhanced Safety: Accurate sensor timestamping, such as ADS-B radar, ensures controllers have a consistent, reliable view of aircraft positions. Timing errors can distort trajectories and raise safety risks.
- Operational Efficiency: Synchronized systems enable smooth sector handovers, efficient aircraft sequencing, and optimized airspace use, reducing delays and boosting efficiency.
- Data Integrity and Forensics: Precisely synchronized logs enable accurate incident reconstruction, supporting investigations and preventing future occurrences.
- Resilience and Redundancy: Robust NTP and PTP ensure continuous, accurate synchronization through redundancy and failover during outages.
BlueSky® GNSS Firewall
Our BlueSky GNSS Firewall protects deployed GNSS systems by providing a cost-effective overlay solution installed between existing GNSS antennas and GNSS systems. The BlueSky GNSS Firewall protects systems inside the firewall from untrusted sky-based signals outside the firewall.
Products for ATC Systems
SyncServer® S600 Network Time Server
Modern networks require accurate, secure and reliable time services. The security-hardened SyncServer S600 network time server delivers accurate hardware-based Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Precise Time Protocol (PTP) timestamps.
SyncServer® S650 Time and Frequency Instrument
The SyncServer S650 modular time server combines the best of time and frequency instrumentation with unique flexibility and powerful network-based and security-hardened features. The flexible timing output provides easy replication of precise and coherent output signals, eliminating the need for a signal distribution chassis.
TimeProvider® 4100 PTP Grandmaster
Our TimeProvider 4100 series is an innovative and flexible hardware platform with unique differentiating software options and multiple operation modes that you can deploy at core sites, aggregation sites, fronthaul or backhaul. Our TP4100 is an investment in a platform that will evolve with industry needs.
TimeProvider® 4500 PTP Grandmaster
Our TimeProvider 4500 series is the most advanced grandmaster platform for high accuracy, high-speed networking and high capacity. Introducing a hardware timekeeping platform that provides high-speed network interfaces up to 25 Gbps and enables precise time accuracy of less than one nanosecond.