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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precision time and frequency technologies, today announced that their globally recognized timing and frequency experts will present at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium taking place at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD, May 21 - 24, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110829/AQ59077LOGO) Symmetricom is pleased to be a...

Transmitting extremely precise clock signals over long distances could help pave the way to a new definition of the second Atomic clocks based on the oscillations of a cesium atom keep amazingly steady time and also define the precise length of a second. But cesium clocks are no longer the most accurate. That title has been transferred to an optical clock housed at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo. that can keep time to within 1 second in 3.7...

The ability to accurately measure a second in time is at the heart of many essential technologies; the most recognizable may be the Global Positioning System (GPS). In a paper accepted for publication in the AIP's journal Review of Scientific Instruments, a researcher at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder discusses how achieving a stable and coordinated global measure of time requires more than just the world's most accurate...

Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe's twenty-first century navigation system, also relies on clocks "“ but they are millions of times more accurate than those earlier timepieces.The operational Galileo satellites will carry two types of clocks "“ passive hydrogen masers and rubidium atomic frequency standards. Each satellite will be equipped with two hydrogen masers, one of...