Brandywine - OSA 3250 Optical-Cesium Precision Timing
- Uses optical-pumping cesium technology rather than magnetic selection for higher stability and longevity.
- Fully compliant with ITU-T G.811 PRC / G.811.1 ePRC standards.
- Supports essential timing outputs such as BITS, PPS (1PPS), and analog frequency.
- Compact, modular design suitable for deployment in racks, enabling scalable deployment across telecom, defense, utilities, and data-center environments.
- Long service life and improved holdover performance — offering enhanced reliability even during extended GNSS disruptions.
- Remote and secure management capabilities, including support for SNMPv3 and integration with orchestration/management suites (e.g. Mosaic Controller).
The OSA 3250 delivers modern, optical-cesium precision timing — offering a compact, modular, and cost-effective solution to replace ageing magnetic cesium clocks. It provides industry-standard ePRC timing, long-term holdover stability and secure remote manageability — ideal for 5G networks, power grids, data centres or critical infrastructure.
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- Accurate & reliable time data from a trusted source. Precision hardware PTP timestamping to 8ns
- Remote configuration and status via web browser, remote monitoring with SNMP
- Synchronization between users – eradicates discrepancies System time stamping, such as e-commerce transactions, e-mail sent & received, is highly accurate
- Automatic systems procedures such as backups occur at the correct time and in the correct order
- Additional time signal outputs can feed to other systems
- Multiple time source fall back and priority configuration can ensure high synchronization availability
- Various oscillator choices allow for long holdover to maintain time accuracy when synchronization signals are absent
- Modular Timing System
- Flexible
- Upgradeable
- Redundant
- Hot Swappable Modules
- High Accuracy
- Network-Centric
- Rugged
- Environmentally Qualified
- Automatic Propagation Delay Compensation
- Flexible input reference – GPS, Have Quick, IRIG B
- Uses modern optical pumping instead of older magnetic cesium methods, which improves long-term stability and reliability while measuring many more atoms for highly accurate timing.
- Offers excellent frequency accuracy (≤ ±1×10⁻¹²) and very low phase noise on multiple frequency outputs (5 MHz, 10 MHz, 100 MHz), making it suitable for precise synchronization.
- Supports multiple power options (AC, DC ±24 V, DC −48 V) with redundant and hot-swappable supply modules and optional battery backup for one hour, aiding uptime in critical environments.
- Modular design with multiple reference paths built in for high-availability.
- 6 expansion slots for customization and expansion.
- Industry-first GPS integrity checking with Timewall™
- Unique optical crosslink architecture for either Master-Slave hierarchical setups or Master-Master crosschecking and failover
- LCD display and keypad for basic status and configuration – secure web browser for detailed setup.
- Single-slot 32 bit PCI Express module
- IRIG A, B, NASA 36, 1 PPS sync inputs
- HaveQuick sync input option
- Propagation delay correction
- Zero latency time reads
- Match Time status / interrupt
- IRIG-B time code output (option)
- External Event time tag
- User programmable heartbeat rate interrupt
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- 6U single slot VME form factor
- Nine digit time display
- Optional Have Quick synchronization input
- IRIG’s A and B and NASA 36 time code inputs
- 1PPS sync input
- IRIG B output
- 1PPS and time code inputs are redundant
- Single-slot including GPS option
- Zero latency time reads, microseconds through years
- External Event input (optional eight and sixteen inputs)
- Match Time output
- Programmable Heartbeat rate
- Video Time Inserter Option
- Many additional options
- IRIG A & B/IEEE-1344, and NASA 36 inputs standard
- HaveQuick sync option
- Propagation delay compensation
- Zero latency time reads
- Match Time output (P4)
- IRIG B time code output option
- External Event time tag (P4)
- Three user programmable rates
- Ruggedization option
- Multi-pin Front Panel P4 I/O option
- Dual inputs with automatic switchover
- 10 individually buffered outputs of 3 signal outputs
- Have Quick, BCD and 1PPS outputs compliant with ICD-GPS-060
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