Spirent Communications (News - Alert) plc announced its participation in Symmetricom’s SyncWorld Ecosystem Program.

The program was launched in early 2011, in order to offer support to the precise timing and synchronization that is imperative while transitioning to all-IP backhaul networks and 4G/LTE (News - Alert) mobile platforms.

The Symmetricom SyncWorld program also ensures interoperability and cooperation among network equipment vendors, chip manufacturers, and testing companies, for addressing the advanced networking requirements of service providers and enterprises, said officials in a release.

The program allows Spirent to leverage its mobile backhaul testing solutions to help service providers and equipment vendors to validate the performance of the highly demanding applications on the mobile Internet. It also assures delivery of good quality of experience (QoE) for mobile subscribers.

Company sources at Spirent revealed that all solutions are designed to validate packet timing protocols, such as IEEE 1588v2 and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE). Also, physical timing characteristics are tested by generating and measuring impairments such as wander and packet delay variation (PDV).

Manish Gupta (News - Alert), vice president of Marketing at Symmetricom said, “Precise timing synchronization is essential to ensure quality of experience in all-IP/Ethernet mobile backhaul to support increasingly real-time-related traffic. We are delighted to have Spirent join SyncWorld, with its complete portfolio of solutions to smoothly facilitate the transition to packet-based networks.”

Spirent also provides test methodologies to comprehensively test timing and synchronization across the mobile backhaul in its capacity as a member of the ecosystem program. These test methodologies assure of nanosecond accuracies owing to Symmetricom’s (News - Alert) TimeProvider 5000 Grandmaster Clock and the performance testing capabilities of the Spirent TestCenter solution, emphasized company sources.

Rajesh Rajamani, senior product marketing manager at Spirent said, “Spirent remains committed to helping our customers make the complex transition to an all-IP/Ethernet mobile backhaul by delivering the most advanced solutions for accurately measuring the performance of these networks at scale. By forging strong partnerships we help ensure that our testing solutions characterize the accuracy of boundary clocks and transparent clocks that operate in a packet network.”

Spirent Communications also announced that its solutions are helping Japan’s Internet Multifeed Co. (MF) to conduct the first ever 100G Ethernet IXP Interoperability Test (IOT) on its Japan Network Access Point (News - Alert).