NextNav today announced a strategic partnership with Oscilloquartz, an Adtran company and global leader in time synchronization solutions. The collaboration aims to demonstrate how terrestrial 5G-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and Oscilloquartz’s timing technology can provide a scalable complement and backup to GPS. This is crucial for critical systems like data centers, utilities, and emergency services during outages.
This joint effort is intended to create a complementary and backup timing service layer to GPS, leveraging existing 5G infrastructure to distribute accurate, UTC-aligned time both indoors and outdoors. By fusing Oscilloquartz’s synchronization equipment with NextNav’s terrestrial 5G PNT solution, the partnership will enhance resiliency by adding an additional timing source.
Sidd Chenumolu, Chief Business Development Officer at NextNav, stated that this partnership is a foundational step toward realizing a 'system-of-systems' approach to PNT resiliency. This addresses an urgent national security and public safety need by enabling diverse, standards-based timing sources for critical applications.
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