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What’s New: A relatively recent paper from the International Telecommunications Union reinforcing the essentiality of time and synchronization.

Why It’s Important: 

  • Time and sync are fundamental to almost every technology. Most tech uses GPS as its time/sync source.
  • GPS, as we never tire of saying, is easily denied or imitated (jammed or spoofed). This makes all the tech that uses it vulnerable.
  • The more resilient and precise a nation’s time sources, the safer and more productive its technology and economy.

What To Know:

 

Synchronization and the impact of UTC discontinuities

Stefano Ruffini, Rapporteur, Question 13/15, ITU–T Study Group 15 and Silvana Rodrigues, Senior Principal System Engineer, Huawei

Stefano Ruffini, Rapporteur, Question 13/15, ITU–T Study Group 15 and
Silvana Rodrigues, Senior Principal System Engineer, Huawei

Accurate synchronization is fundamental to effective telecommunication network operations.

Synchronization is more important than ever in today’s 5G networks and will be even more so in future mobile networks, where emerging radio technologies and network architectures support increasingly demanding use cases, such as time-sensitive networking for automated vehicles or controlling robots in smart factories.

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