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Synchronisation has been a fundamental building block of all digital telecommunication systems since the 1980s. Until recently, only a small number of engineers and managers in each fixed or mobile operators or a network equipment manufacturer needed to understand synchronisation. All has changed with the deployment of packet core, metro, RAN and access networks. While IP & Ethernet technologies will deliver huge benefits for those who deploy, the costs of managing and synchronising these networks will be higher than was previously the case.

Without good training and new and improved tools the risks of post deployment failures of these new architectures cannot be accurately quantified. SyncWatch was designed directly as a result of operator needs to understand synchronisation performance over the long term, providing a benchmark and delivering long term trending and immediate alerting when characteristics change beyond defined limits.

Mobile Operators

Mobile Operators are responsible for the quality of the services they deliver to their users via their handsets or mobile phones irrespective of network archicture and equipment used to move the services accross the network. Some operators own their own infrastructure, others totally outsource the transport network while others manage a hybrid solution.

SyncWatch allows mobile operators to evalaute equipment they themselves may deploy, or to prove that transport solutions they may purchase from other operators provides the synchronisation quality they need. In service, long term monitoring using the SyncWatch Managed system, ensures the early detection of problems which increases the chance the problems are solved quickly.

Fixed Operators

Fixed operators whose largest customers are the mobile operators, need to offer backhaul solutions that are technically compliant and can be delivered in the locations the mobile operator requires. Synchronisation is a key feature of the backhaul service and the fixed operator needs tools to be able to ensure and assure synchronisation quality.

SyncWatch ensures the fixed infrastructure is deployed with confidence and that the operator is always able to report its synchronisation performance internally or if required externally to its customers. Where strict SLA's form part of a backhaul contract, SyncWatch delivers all the information required to manage network performance and business risk.

Network Equipment Manufacturers

Network equipment manufacturers need to provide their customers, the mobile operators and fixed operators, with solutions that meet their often very complex requirements. The key to success and differentiation lies in the availability of quality network and service management systems and tools.

SyncWatch Managed is designed to harvest independant synchronisation performance information from probes deployed across a network. SyncWatch can be integrated with other OSS / Management systems through industry standard interfaces. If tighter integration is required this is can be achieved through custom integration. True end-to-end synchronisation performance monitoring and reporting is possible through integration.