GNSS can be used to provide both timing and synchronisation. On the timing side, GNSS provides direct and accurate access to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). On the other hand, synchronisation between receivers at different locations can be established and maintained using GNSS reference time. As a result of these uses, many Telecom and Energy networks now rely on GNSS for synchronization operations, while financial institutions use GNSS to timestamp transactions.
Timing & Synchronisation (T&S)
Timing & Synchronisation (T&S) in Action
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22 April 2020Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22. Since its early days back in the seventies, Earth Day has striven to build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and the planet. As an engine of this transformative change, space tech supports the... -
30 January 2020Carlo des Dorides took up his position as executive director of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) on February 1, 2011. In the nine years since then, the Galileo programme has progressed from a project on paper to an operational programme with over a billion users around the globe. As his term at the... -
20 December 2019This has been a year of tremendous growth for the GSA, Galileo, EGNOS and the European Space Programme as a whole. We hit the ground running in 2019, buoyed by a wave of optimism following the successful European Space Week, held in in Marseille last December.
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40%
40%
Almost 40% of new T&S receivers are equipped with Galileo
Timing & Synchronisation (T&S)
93%
93%
Telecommunications represents around 93% of the overall GNSS devices in 2020
Timing & Synchronisation (T&S)
2,7
2,7
million GNSS receivers is the installed base in Telecom, Energy and Finance, forecasted for 2025
Timing & Synchronisation (T&S)
