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Huber+Suhner is offering the Syncro family for nanosecond-accurate time synchronization — essential for global trade, stock exchanges, mobile communications, navigation and geodesy. With Syncro, data center operators requiring precise time synchronization can integrate optical timing into existing fiber architectures, enhancing performance and reducing costs.
The Syncro family is an integrated, modular timing and GNSS distribution portfolio designed for rapid deployment and reliable performance by extending transmission distances, reducing the number of required GNSS antennas and eliminating many limitations of coaxial cabling.
Syncro is available in three customizable product sets so customers can select the right balance of power, monitoring and redundancy for their operations. The Syncro Max provides full PoF capability and signal expansion, monitoring and redundancy for the most demanding deployments. Syncro Eco delivers the signal expansion and monitoring features of the Max without PoF for customers that do not require remote powering. Simpler applications that do not require PoF or redundancy can use the Syncro Mini, which still maintains monitoring and signal expansion capabilities.
GNSS provides the reference time used across modern networks and critical infrastructure. GNSS signals originate from satellites carrying atomic clocks, with the extreme stability of those clocks acting as the basis for international timekeeping and enabling nanosecond synchronization when distributed correctly.
Building on previous GNSS and power-over-fiber (PoF) offerings, Syncro delivers secure, precise timing synchronization over fiber, while preserving nanosecond accuracy across an operator’s network. PoF is a key advantage of the Syncro approach as optical fiber carries both the GNSS timing signal and required energy to remote antenna assemblies, allowing rooftop or remote antennas to be powered without separate electrical wiring. Crucially, Syncro integrates seamlessly into an operator’s existing fiber network, reusing optical infrastructure to deliver both signal and safe, centrally managed power to remote GNSS antenna locations.
By moving timing distribution onto fiber, Syncro eliminates many installation constraints and reduces planning overhead. The plug-and-play design removes the transmission distance limits of coaxial cabling, reduces the need for reinforced ducting and extensive grounding to protect against lightning surges, and allows longer secure transmission between antennas and receivers.
