TimeProvider 4100
Microchip TimeProvider 4100 Precise Timing Grandmaster with Gateway Clock, PRTC-B, High-Performance Boundary Clock, Enhanced PRTC & Redundancy
This product is available from Milexia Deutschland, Milexia France, Milexia Iberica, Milexia Italia and Milexia UK
Critical infrastructure communication networks require highly precise, resilient, and secure IEEE® 1588-compliant Grandmasters to ensure accurate time synchronization, prevent interference, and optimize wireless spectrum usage.
The TimeProvider 4100 series is an innovative, flexible hardware platform with differentiated software options and multiple operating modes, deployable in core, aggregation, fronthaul, or backhaul sites.
The TP4100 represents an investment in a platform designed to evolve with industry needs.
Main Features
- The TP4100 is an IEEE 1588 v2 PTP Grandmaster with PTP, NTP, and SyncE functionalities.
- It meets Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC) Class A, Class B, and enhanced PRTC (ePRTC) specifications, exceeding Class D requirements for multidomain boundary clocks.
Key aspects include:
- High capacity: up to 2,000 unicast PTP clients at 128 PPS.
- Reliable fanless operation with passive cooling.
- Redundancy via dual software mechanisms using two units in active/standby or active/active modes.
- Enhanced patented APTS with Automatic Asymmetry Compensation (AAC).
- Integrated GNSS firewall (BlueSky™ technology) against jamming and spoofing.
- Support for power sector and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) specific profiles.
- Synchronization Supply Unit (SSU) mode to filter legacy input signals (E1/T1) from jitter and wander.
- Compatibility with TimeProvider XT extension for fanout of legacy signals up to 200 E1/T1/CC/JCC ports.
- Grandmaster with Zero Trust architecture and advanced timing security.
- Support for X.509 certificates issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) for secure WebGUI.
- Performance monitoring for phase and legacy signals.