GPS timing for equipment rooms that can’t see the sky.

Streets lined with tall buildings create canyon-like environments where reception is poor. Classic examples include Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan and Hong Kong’s Kowloon and Central districts.

Urban canyons affect local conditions, including radio reception and GPS signals. That matters because GPS is a key timing source for telecommunications, providing the global reference used to synchronize real-time systems such as cellular networks.

Wireless carriers increasingly centralize radio equipment in one location and extend coverage over fiber. Every piece of RF source equipment in that room needs its own GPS feed, and as the heartbeat of the network, that timing source must be stable, accurate and highly available.

GPS over Fiber carries the GPS signal hundreds of feet into troublesome areas, giving equipment in urban canyons a strong, reliable signal. Our GPS over Fiber products feature the industry’s first NEBS Level 3 certification for telco-qualified equipment.

For central BTS locations, the Intelibs GPS distribution architecture scales from a single rack to multi-rack, multi-room configurations using Fiber Distribution Units (FDU).