2005 marks the 50th anniversary of the cesium atomic clock. In 1955, Dr. Louis Essen and Jack Perry developed the first accurate cesium atomic clock at the National ...

In a telecommunications network, every network element with synchronous intermachine links requires proper synchronization to minimize transport errors. A good example of synchronization is a network ...

Half the fun of getting vintage test equipment is getting to open it up. Maybe that’s even more than half of the fun. [CuriousMarc] got an HP 5061A Cesium clock, a somewhat famous instrument as the ...

Industries such as metrology, aerospace and defense need ultra-stable timing for accurate data collection and reliable communication Adtran’s Oscilloquartz optical cesium clock now features the ESTU ...

With a new and improved atomic clock, the standard of time in America is about to change -- a teeny, tiny bit. For the first time in 15 years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or ...

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Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power ...

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADVA (FSE: ADV) today achieved an industry first with the introduction of its Oscilloquartz high-performance optical cesium atomic clock. The coreSync ™ OSA 3300-HP is ADVA’s ...

ADVA has launched a ePRC optical cesium atomic clock solution to protect synchronization networks during GNSS disruptions. The OSA 3350 ePRC+ offers vital backup for mission-critical infrastructures ...

A new atomic clock will keep data center equipment precisely synchronized for months, if global time services including GPS are unavailable or blocked. The 5071B cesium atomic clock from Microchip ...

You’ve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But you’ve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and ...

Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.