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Case Studies: Synchronizing Services With a Public Safety Answering Point	Synchronizing Services With a Public Safety Answering Point Terrebonne Parish (Louisiana) relied on wall clocks to provide less-than accurate time. As a result, CAD reports were depicting fire apparatus arriving prior to the call being received. Police and deputies’ times were equally as skewed. The Parish decided to purchase an Orolia NetClock solution. Terrebonne Parish now has the ability for its agency and remote agencies to add numerous items and offices for synchronization, ensuring that all their reports are accurate.	pdf - 126 KB Tuesday, March 12, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Monmouth University - Secure, Reliable Time Across Campus Operations	Monmouth University - Secure, Reliable Time Across Campus Operations The University deployed a GPS time server to improve availability to a high quality time source to maintain campus operations.	pdf - 113 KB Thursday, July 26, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: The Importance of Legally Traceable Time® In Criminal Cases	The Importance of Legally Traceable Time® In Criminal Cases The Martinsville-Henry County 911 Center, located in Henry County, Virginia, installed an Orolia NetClock® time server solution. During an investigation, there was some confusion as to the timeline of a homicide. The 911Center was able to testify with certainty about the times that its recorder showed that the 911 calls were placed.	pdf - 126 KB Tuesday, March 12, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Path Align-R Determines Microwave Backhaul Link Problem	Path Align-R Determines Microwave Backhaul Link Problem A telecommunications company had experienced problems during a number of backhaul link installations. They encountered several problems with troubleshooting due to the lack of proper test instrumentation and was left to guess and do trial and- error mitigation.	pdf - 411 KB Thursday, July 26, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Case Study - Using a Passive Anti-Jam Antenna to Combat GNSS Interference	Case Study - Using a Passive Anti-Jam Antenna to Combat GNSS Interference A customer with a major datacenter facility was experiencing issues with GNSS interference affecting its timing systems. This case study describes the solution, using a low-cost anti-jam antenna.	pdf - 753 KB Tuesday, July 16, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Rocket into Orbit with a GSG-8 Advanced GNSS Simulator	Rocket into Orbit with a GSG-8 Advanced GNSS Simulator A major commercial aerospace manufacturer needed to launch small cube satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), with small to medium sized payloads that supported Commercial Lunar Payload Services. Their goal was to simulate GNSS signals with their rockets, each of which had two antennas.	pdf - 371 KB Wednesday, March 4, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Priority Healthcare Uses Time Synchronization to Comply with Regulations and Reduce Risk	Priority Healthcare Uses Time Synchronization to Comply with Regulations and Reduce Risk Priority Healthcare uses a GPS time server to enhance security and authentication, as required by HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley. Receiving time through a GPS signal from behind the network firewall protects confidential patient information and greatly decreases security risk of unsecure and unreliable time.	pdf - 111 KB Sunday, July 26, 2015 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Broadcast Studio Synchronization System	Broadcast Studio Synchronization System When a major national broadcaster set out to update its synchronization infrastructure to provide precise timing and frequency control of its studio operations and broadcast transmissions, their contractor looked to Orolia to design and install a fault-tolerant 1PPS and 10 MHz distribution system for new digital equipment as well as legacy systems.	pdf - 97 KB Wednesday, February 13, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Defense Network Upgrades - Precision Time Synchronization	Defense Network Upgrades - Precision Time Synchronization Orolia was contacted by a global defense infrastructure client to evaluate the obsolescence of its fixed site timing infrastructure, and the impact on overall system performance. This case study demonstrates how Orolia’s SecureSync® time server solutions can upgrade and enhance legacy defense timing infrastructure while preserving critical system functionality, at minimal cost.	pdf - 296 KB Monday, April 29, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Terrabonne Parish Communications District PSAP Sync	Terrabonne Parish Communications District PSAP Sync Spectracom’s® NetClock® public safety master clock provides time sync within the PSAP to our 911 server, LAN/WAN CAD and GIS servers, 5 local dispatch consoles, one wall-mounted TimeView Display and our voice/radio logging recorder. Through the use of Spectracom’s remote radio interface, the master clock also time syncs the Sheriff’s Office and the local Police Department.	pdf - 113 KB Thursday, July 26, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Testing Confirms Resilient Timing Success: Underground and Indoors with SecureSync® and STL	Testing Confirms Resilient Timing Success: Underground and Indoors with SecureSync® and STL Accurate and resilient timing is essential for critical applications. It is the fundamental requirement to synchronize operations. But what do you do when your GPS receiver is in a basement and underground, with marginal availability of GNSS signals? This was a challenge for GMV, a global technology corporation that produces WANTime time service for the city of Madrid, Spain. They decided to test Orolia’s DISA-approved SecureSync® network timing and synchronization platform together with Satelles’ STL Satellite Time and Location Service to determine whether this combination of resources could serve as a backup when GNSS signals were unavailable.	pdf - 524 KB Friday, June 19, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: GPS Timing Integration for Small Form Factor PDRS	GPS Timing Integration for Small Form Factor PDRS Spectracom’s TSync bus-level timing platform was integrated into a new small, rugged, Passive Detection and Reporting System (PDRS) to receive GPS, discipline an onboard rugged ovenized crystal oscillator and generate high precision time and frequency signals for system synchronization. It also delivers GPS coordinates for the system. The development of the system greatly benefited from Spectracom's customization-to-COTS approach by adapting the platform into a standard VPX-based card without the need for non-recurring engineering charges. It offered the necessary ruggedization, small size, and low weight and power consumption to meet the goals of system portability, and is available with secure SAASM GPS.	pdf - 996 KB Thursday, March 24, 2016 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Precision Timing for Airborne Reconnaissance	Precision Timing for Airborne Reconnaissance The US military needed a time synchronization solution for critical reconnaissance data as part of an aircraft modernization program. To accurately receive sensor data, receivers on surveillance aircraft must stay on frequency and the recorded data must be time stamped for data center synchronization across the military communications network.	pdf - 274 KB Wednesday, November 13, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Accurate Time for Payment Card Processing	Accurate Time for Payment Card Processing Verus Card Services required a Stratum-1 time server to synchronize all of its internal systems to comply with the Payment Card Industry requirements. They utilized standard NTP to distribute network time from a GPS-based NTP server.	pdf - 121 KB Thursday, July 26, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Providing Secure Time Reference to a Leading Pharmaceutical Organization - Vifor Pharma	Providing Secure Time Reference to a Leading Pharmaceutical Organization - Vifor Pharma Vifor Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland and specialized in iron deficiency treatments, contacted Orolia to provide them with a solution to make their Time Source more reliable and secure.	pdf - 874 KB Wednesday, September 9, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Military Aviation Missions Rely on SecureSync: Ultra-Precise Timing & Synchronization for Large Network Infrastructure	Military Aviation Missions Rely on SecureSync: Ultra-Precise Timing & Synchronization for Large Network Infrastructure A military aviation customer needed an ultra-precise, real time network timing and synchronization solution to maintain accurate system synchronization on a global basis. For use in deployable communications systems, this network solution would be used to support mission critical air, land and sea operations on a continuous basis, anywhere in the world.	pdf - 196 KB Tuesday, May 19, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Chelsea Community Hospital - Time Synchronization	Chelsea Community Hospital - Time Synchronization The employee’s of Chelsea Community Hospital recognized a need to standardize time. The main purpose was to provide a synchronized time source for the manual documentation process, and for coordinating meeting and events. The staff recognized four main sources of time: desktops, phones, organization clocks and personal clocks, which often varied in time.	pdf - 171 KB Thursday, July 26, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: VersaSync Delivers Resilient PNT and Mission Timing & Sync on Tactical Vehicles	VersaSync Delivers Resilient PNT and Mission Timing & Sync on Tactical Vehicles A leading defense contractor needed a mobile, rugged mission timing and sync reference that could distribute accurate timing to network devices onboard tactical vehicles. Specifically, they needed a device that could provide mission timing accuracy 24 hours per day in hostile, GPS-denied environments. The device would be part of a major C4ISR program for operational battlefield management capability for an Allied nation, and would be integrated into a continuous operations platform for situational awareness.	pdf - 173 KB Wednesday, March 18, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Unleashing the Power of SecureSync®	Unleashing the Power of SecureSync® A large U.S. power authority contacted Orolia to replace twenty time servers and potentially serve as their new vendor. They needed precision time stamps with command line functionality to interface with their Tripwire change/ control monitoring platform so that they could maintain NERC CIP compliance.	pdf - 325 KB Friday, October 11, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: GSG-8 Advanced Simulator Ensures Critical Space Mission Readiness	GSG-8 Advanced Simulator Ensures Critical Space Mission Readiness An Orolia customer that provides solutions for national security missions needed two perfectly synchronized GPS simulators that could simulate two synchronized trajectories in space at the same time. The customer required flawlessly synchronized receivers on two different Low Earth Orbits (LEO) with a time difference that could not exceed extremely tight constraints – within ±100 picoseconds (ps).	pdf - 770 KB Monday, November 25, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: A Hierarchical Timing Topology Gets a Sporting Chance to Improve This Distributed Network	A Hierarchical Timing Topology Gets a Sporting Chance to Improve This Distributed Network A live sports broadcasting enterprise with multiple sites and a distributed network was getting its time references via internet time servers, including regional NIST and NTP pool servers … and it wasn’t working out. Their applications were very sensitive to time sync delays, and their time traffic was passing though insecure firewalls. They needed to do better. Orolia suggested an enterprise hierarchical timing topology instead, utilizing multiple layers: a time reference layer, a time distribution layer, and a client hand-off layer.	Read More Monday, October 5, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Synchronizing Resilient PNT Test Range Data	Synchronizing Resilient PNT Test Range Data A defense customer needed a time synchronization solution for test range data to replace a legacy radio frequency distribution system. Data recorded from test missions at various locations must be time stamped for data center synchronization across the communications network, since accurate data is critical for evaluating system performance in battlefield scenarios.	pdf - 460 KB Monday, September 30, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Synchronizing Military Operations with BroadSim	Synchronizing Military Operations with BroadSim An American space company that specialized in the design, manufacture and launch of small- and medium-class space and rocket systems for military customers needed to synchronize multiple simulators at once.	pdf - 505 KB Friday, July 17, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Orolia’s GSG-8 GPS/GNSS Simulator Trains Pilots to React to Real-World Situations	Orolia’s GSG-8 GPS/GNSS Simulator Trains Pilots to React to Real-World Situations Military aviation programs provide standard pilot training to ensure that they can handle fighters, drone swarms and other advanced threats. But as they run complex flight training scenarios and face off against live and virtual adversaries, what may be overlooked is the value of using GPS/GNSS simulation to duplicate actual cockpit instruments, rather than relying on facsimile instruments.	pdf - 576 KB Friday, January 10, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Unmanned Vessel PNT & GNSS Signal Integrity Solution	Unmanned Vessel PNT & GNSS Signal Integrity Solution Orolia, through its France-based entity Orolia Systèmes & Solutions (O2S), demonstrated its remote positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) and GNSS signal integrity solutions as part of a ROSS project (Remotely Operated Service at Sea) event where an unmanned vessel was teleoperated from hundreds of miles away.	Download case study Tuesday, October 13, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Orolia Announces Successful Synchronization with SecureSyncand Satelles STL Signal	Orolia Announces Successful Synchronization with SecureSyncand Satelles STL Signal	pdf - 2 MB Wednesday, March 22, 2017 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Case Study: Banking on BroadShield	Case Study: Banking on BroadShield This case study demonstrates the importance of installing anti-jam and anti-spoofing software in the financial services environment.	pdf - 661 KB Wednesday, December 5, 2018 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Dawson Creek Fire Department	Dawson Creek Fire Department The Dawson Creek Fire Department had a problem. The clock on the wall showed a different time than the computer clock, which had a different time than devices recording the mergency calls routed through the department. Times noted on manual documentation did not always match times from the recording devices. DCFD was not using a true official time reference to maintain consistent records as is the best practice in public safety answering points.	pdf - 147 KB Thursday, September 13, 2012 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Time Synchronization in a Public Safety Answering Point.	Time Synchronization in a Public Safety Answering Point. The Catawba County (Newton, North Carolina) E911 Communications Center had a problem: The inability to synchronize its systems to determine what time an incident occurred. They implemented an Orolia NetClock® GPS system that connected directly to a server. It is now the time server for the complete County network of over 1,000 computers.	pdf - 153 KB Tuesday, March 12, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Case Studies: Case Study: Weathering PNT Data Challenges at Sea	Case Study: Weathering PNT Data Challenges at Sea A naval customer needed to ensure resilience against threats to critical oceanic data for safe navigation and situational awareness in the naval battlespace. Military operations at sea pose extreme challenges as environmental factors impact Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) reliant systems.	pdf - 194 KB Monday, June 17, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: Orolia SAS FAA Repair Station Certificate	Orolia SAS FAA Repair Station Certificate FAA Form 8000-4	pdf - 366 KB Thursday, July 20, 2017 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: NERC CIP-007 Security Report	NERC CIP-007 Security Report This technical note documents the compatibility of SecureSync with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) “CIP-007 Standard Cyber Security – Systems Security Management”. This paper also describes the SecureSync configuration settings required to meet the CIP-007 requirement.	pdf - 805 KB Thursday, February 28, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: ISO 9001-2015 for Orolia B.V. Netherlands	ISO 9001-2015 for Orolia B.V. Netherlands	PDF - 306 KB Thursday, November 14, 2019 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: ISO 9001-2015 Certificate for Portsmouth UK	ISO 9001-2015 Certificate for Portsmouth UK	pdf - 343 KB Tuesday, September 4, 2018 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: Declaration of Conformity for SecureSync	Declaration of Conformity for SecureSync Declaration of compliance to applicable standards.	pdf - 47 KB Tuesday, April 4, 2017 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: ISO 9100:2016 Certificate for Guidel FR	ISO 9100:2016 Certificate for Guidel FR	pdf - 309 KB Saturday, July 18, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: Declaration of Conformity for GSG Series GPS Simulators	Declaration of Conformity for GSG Series GPS Simulators Declaration of compliance to applicable standards.	pdf - 31 KB Thursday, August 24, 2017 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: ISO 9001-2015 Certificate for Spectracom Rochester	ISO 9001-2015 Certificate for Spectracom Rochester ISO Certification: all Spectracom sites are registered to ISO9001:2015 and are regularly audited.	pdf - 373 KB Tuesday, June 2, 2020 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: EASA AP058 Certificate for Orolia SAS	EASA AP058 Certificate for Orolia SAS	pdf - 508 KB Friday, August 21, 2015 [ Permalink ]
Compliance Documents: Declaration of Conformity for TSync Series Bus-Level Timing	Declaration of Conformity for TSync Series Bus-Level Timing Declaration of compliance to applicable standards.	pdf - 138 KB Thursday, August 24, 2017 [ Permalink ]

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