Microchip's new ground breaking indoor wall/ceiling mounted IEEE-1588 IGM Grandmaster with integrated GNSS receiver and antenna eliminates the need for an outdoor antenna and related cabling which dramatically decreases the effective cost of the solution while providing all the performance requirements of a 1588 GM. The IGM fully integrates a 1588 PTP grandmaster with a GNSS receiver and antenna in a small, fully contained package designed for easy installation on an interior wall or ceiling. The IGM Indoor offers a quick and simple solution to bring highly accurate PTP grandmaster timing closer to mobile edge, and is ideal for LTE-A, 5G, and DOCSIS3.1 deployments.

Features

• Reduced installation costs and simplified cabling

• Enhanced indoor GNSS performance, capable of receiving GNSS signals when deployed indoors and/or in deep urban canyons

• Plug-and-play features to reduce deployment cost and time

• Deployment flexibility (small size, wall or ceiling mount)

• Best-in-class synchronization for indoor small cell deployments

• Small form factor with single 1 GbE RJ45 port

• Supported PTP profiles: ITU-T G.8265.1 (L3 unicast), ITU-T G.8275.1 (L2 multicast), ITU-T G8275.2 (L3 Unicast), Telecom 2008 and Ethernet default

• One-step and two-step clock

• Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) input and output

• Unique ability to provide GPS backup by accepting PTP input

• APTS and asymmetry compensation

• IPv4 and IPv6 support (PTP and OAM/Management)

• Maximum 32 PTP clients

• GNSS receiver with assisted GNSS support

• GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, and SBAS

• Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC) compliant