Consultancy

Chronos can field arguably the most experienced team in the world for sync & timing knowledge. We can draw on the experience of significant experts in this specialist field, we relish any challenge and we have never failed to deliver comprehensive advice and value creating knowledge transfer to our clients as evidenced by these endorsements.

The team includes:

• Charles Curry, Managing Director who has been selling time and frequency products since the mid 70’s and sold his first Cesium for PRC work in 1980
• Steve Sears, Customer Support & NPD Manager - manages and supports on a day to day basis over 1000 GPS and SSU systems
• Clive Wright, Sales Manager and has been installing and selling sync solutions for over 10 years and prior to Chronos worked for Symmetricom
• Chris Roberts, Business Development Manager who when with Newbridge instigated a corporate sync back-office knowledge Programme
• Steve Newcombe, Account Manager - has built a successful manufacturing business, and a service and support organisation for enterprise NTP. Has conducted research into the remote management of telecommunications systems
• Calum Dalmey, our Technical Manager, brings over 10 years product marketing experience in the telecoms and military markets
• Steve Wells – Account Manager – brings over 11 years network design engineering and timing and sync sales experience from Cable & Wireless and Symmetricom
• Andy Proctor - Divisional Manager GNSS Applications & Solutions, has worked in the GNSS industry for over 10 years following a career in the UK Military, and has been involved in defining the standards for A-GPS technology and setting up GNSS testing and integration facilities in many market sectors, including Military, Telecom and Automotive. Andy has also conducted research into best practice in Sales and Business Development
• John Lyons, Engineering and Projects Manager - when with Marconi Communications in the 90’s focused on network engineering and operations and has managed the installation of over 1000 GPS and SSU systems
• Chris Farrow, our Technical Manager, who when with Marconi was involved with System X National Synchronisation Subsystem (NSS) and subsequent sync upgrade
• Billy Marshall - Sales Support Engineer & Telecom Products Trainer - has over 10 years technical experience with Timing and Synchronisation systems and currently provides technical knowledge to the Sales Team and delivers both internal and customer training

General

• Next Generation Sync advice, solutions, knowledge and the convergence of time and timing
• Strategic Advice on future needs for synchronisation
• Sync Audits™ - featuring: data collection, analysis, & reporting
• Conference – ITSF and WSTS steering group membership, chairing and speaking
• UK Government KTN – participation in the UK DTi Knowledge Transfer Network on location and timing steering group
• Product Performance evaluation testing and design advice
• Design and Planning of synchronisation networks for classic SDH and new NGN architecture
• Workshops - tailored to specific needs
• Long term Sync Monitoring service (no capital purchase)

Mobile and Fixed Line Operators

• Mobile Operators - independent proof that your backhaul links are of acceptable quality. Drive up QOS
• Fixed Line Operators - confirmation your infrastructure is engineered on firm foundations. Sync is a differentiator
• All Operators - trusted advisor for anything "sync". We act as an impartial third party when bandwidth agreements are signed
• KPIs and SLAs - Advice on managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Product Manufacturers/SI's

• Prove your products are fit for purpose for Next Generation Network interoperability
• Prove your products are performing to the relevant Standards
• Cost-reduce your product while still maintaining satisfactory sync performance
• Choose the right synchronisation features for your next product development
• Implement your own sync test environment to improve product cost and quality

Consultancy Services

If you would like to contact us please email us at chris.roberts@chronos.co.uk

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