Symmetricom

• Public
• US

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Symmetricom is a leading supplier of timing and synchronization hardware, software, and services. Our technology plays a critical role in network reliability and quality of service for wireline, wireless and cable networks. We also provide end-to-end quality monitoring solutions for triple-play voice, data, and digital video. We sell our solutions to telecom and cable service providers, government agencies, enterprises, and research facilities. Symmetricom products were shipped to more than 90 countries in fiscal year 2009. Our products include atomic frequency references, such as rubidium and cesium oscillators; hydrogen masers; GPS time and frequency receivers, as well as time and frequency distribution systems; network management software; video quality monitoring solutions and professional services. We manufacture precision time products that allow our customers to keep accurate time to within 40 billionths of a second over a 24-hour period. Our clocks tell us the time of day and allow us to measure the time interval between when an event starts and when it stops. The difference between conventional time measuring devices and our precise time products lies in the accuracy of the measurements. To place the accuracy or resolution of our clocks in perspective, if a clock accumulates a 40 billionth of a second time error over a 24-hour period, it would require more than 60,000 years to accumulate an error of one second. ...

Number of Employees 952

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