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Primary Reference Sources


Primary Reference Sources, also known as "master clocks," provide the highest level of time and/or frequency accuracy for telecom networking as required by international standards. All clocks in a synchronization network must be referenced, or traceable, to a PRS. This can be achieved in a variety of ways to meet unique network requirements.

When PRSs were expensive, the most economical solution was to use a single PRS as the sole master clock and distribute its signal across the network. However, advances in GPS and atomic clock technologies have made providing precision time and frequency within the network more widely available. Read More.

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