UltraSync™ From Memorylink provides simple, cost-effective sync generation for
Motorola’s MOTOwi4™ point-to-point radios
Indian Wells, CA, Oct. 1, 2007 – Motorola MOTOwi4™ network operators who want to improve their network reliability will soon be able to deploy Memorylink’s newest wireless broadband solution: the UltraSync™ GPS-100M. Memorylink’s GPS-100M is the first commercial offering of its UltraSync product family, designed to provide a stable, accurate timing signal to Motorola’s MOTOwi4 PTP-600 point-to-point wireless networking radios. Memorylink officially launched UltraSync here during Motorola’s Channel Summit 2007, which is an annual gathering of Motorola channel partners and broadband providers.
Designed to work hand-in-hand with Motorola’s MOTOwi4™ PTP-600 series of point-to-point (PTP) radios, the UltraSync GPS-100M provides a super-stable Global Positioning System (GPS)–derived synchronization signal which maximizes network performance. But more importantly, by acting as a highly stable out-of-band synchronization system for the underlying MOTOwi4 time-division-duplex (TDD)–based wireless network, elements of that TDD network become impervious to the self-interference and drift which often plague un-synchronized TDD networks. In applications where the MOTOwi4 PTP-600 system wirelessly links various TDD components of, for example, wireless 3G network elements, improper handoffs, dropped calls, and reduced throughput can be all but eliminated using the UltraSync as a key component of a properly architected wireless network.
“We’re seeing customers increasingly emulating full-duplex voice communication over half-duplex TDM wireless communication links, for example, to provide wireless backhaul to wireless cellular systems,” said Jon Huard, Memorylink’s chief executive officer. “Such applications that touch (in any way) the cellular networks demand the accuracy and reliability that UltraSync was designed to provide.”
Until today’s announcement of the UltraSync, deployment of competing synchronization alternatives lacked the reliability of industrial temperature rated components, NEMA 4X and UL 508 outdoor rated enclosures, as well as vigorous reliability testing, meaning that GPS synchronization fell far too close to the realm of “weakest link” with regard to network reliability. A single GPS-100M provides sync to a pair of MOTOwi4 PTP radios, and can be located almost anywhere on the Earth’s surface where a physically unobstructed path to the GPS satellites is available. Deriving its power from Motorola’s nonstandard power-over-Cat5, Memorylink’s UltraSync GPS100M generates a precise, highly stable, proprietary sync signal designed to feed a connected MOTOwi4 PTP-600 wireless networking radio, and required to meet Motorola’s system performance specifications. With the launch of the UltraSync, network operators now have a tool that provides an entirely new level of effective synchronization reliability.
The Memorylink UltraSync GPS100M will be available during Q4 in North America from Memorylink distributors listed at www.Memorylink.com. It will also be available through select Motorola Authorized Distributors, Authorized Resellers, and Authorized Solutions Providers. The The list price for Memorylink’s UltraSync GPS 100M is $565.
About Memorylink
With corporate headquarters in Neenah, WI and product development facilities near Chicago, IL, Memorylink empowers people with communication technology and products to enhance the quality of their lives. Since 1998, Memorylink has been working toward the goal of connecting people – from where they are to where they want to be – to ensure that their communications requirements are satisfied. To discover how Memorylink can satisfy your communications requirements or those of your customers, please visit us at www.Memorylink.com.
About GPS
The worldwide GPS system blanketing the Earth provides highly stable and redundant Cesium (Cs) and Rubidium (Rb) atomic clock sources to GPS receivers including the UltraSync, which can be located almost anywhere on the Earth’s surface where a physically unobstructed path to the GPS satellites is available. GPS utilizes a constellation of at least 24 medium Earth orbit satellites which transmit precise microwave signals. There are 30 actively broadcasting satellites in the GPS constellation orbiting the Earth, enabling a GPS receiver to determine its location, speed and direction. A GPS receiver used for positional location calculates its position by measuring the distance between itself and three or more GPS satellites. Atomic clocks integrated into the GPS satellites provide a highly stable and accurate time reference needed for positional information, but equally useful for precise timing applications such as the UltraSync.
UltraSync is a trademark of Memorylink Corp.
MOTOwi4 is a trademark of Motorola, Inc.
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