Timeserver

Competitive organizations need a superior timeserver

Business today is dominated by the Internet and electronic transactions. Competitive organizations need to ensure that their IT network is constantly available and operating at the highest level possible – and that requires a superior timeserver. Without a high-functioning timeserver, an organization faces a number of severe risks that can quickly degrade profitability and credibility in the marketplace. But with a reliable timeserver constantly synchronizing time across the network, organizations can easily avoid these threats, which is why so many organizations have turned to Symmetricom for their timeserver technology.

Symmetricom supplies leading organizations

A Symmetricom timeserver is an integral part of a comprehensive network time synchronization solution. A timeserver from Symmetricom ensures accuracy in log files, keeps applications correct, and provides the ability to manage and monitor all of the clients on the network, all of which lowers the risk of failure in an IT system.

With clients in more than 90 countries around the world, Symmetricom is a leader in the timeserver market. Customers include leading organizations and global enterprises in the telecom, Internet provider, military and aerospace industries, as well as government and research facilities. You will frequently find a Symmetricom timeserver employed in technologies like wireline and wireless telecom networks; defense, space, and avionics systems; and enterprise IT networks.

The dangers of an inadequate timeserver

Organizations operating without a timeserver or with an inadequate timeserver face severe risks. Operational failure may occur as automated events like data backups or order processing breakdown or happen incorrectly, because tasks that need to happen in a specific sequence on different computers can't be carried out correctly. Data loss is another risk without an adequate timeserver -- system software may accidentally save an old version of a file as the latest version, eliminating recent changes.

Network security can be more easily breached without a decent timeserver. When a network must rely on an external time source for time synchronization, hackers have a much easier time accessing the network, and administrators have more difficulty preventing future breaches when time stamps on log files are not accurate.

Finally, the lack of a good timeserver may increase legal liability, since proof of accurate timekeeping is often used as a basis for legal contracts. But as formidable as each of these threats are, they can easily be avoided with a superior timeserver from Symmetricom.

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