PISCATAWAY, NJ--(Marketwired - Oct 9, 2013) - The IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP), advancing and accelerating market adoption of standards-conforming products, announces the official launch of the IEEE 1588™ Telecommunications Certification Program. The IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program has been developed to validate the conformance of IEEE 1588-2008 implementations in telecommunications environments, with a focus on the requirements for synchronization in high growth, packet-based, mobile backhaul networks.
"IEEE-ISTO is excited to be supporting the telecommunications industry with the launch of the IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program," said Marco W Migliaro, President and CEO, Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). "The program is expected to increase confidence and improve consistency in the evaluation and procurement of telecommunications products."
Addressing the requirements of ITU-T Recommendation G.8265.1 (Precision Time Protocol Telecom Profile for Frequency Synchronization), the IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program is the industry's first certification program specifically designed to assess and validate a product's compliance to IEEE 1588-2008.
"The official launch of the IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program by ICAP underscores the commitment to a comprehensive, industry-driven conformity assessment program leading to certification based on the IEEE standard," commented John Eidson, chair of the IEEE 1588 Standards Working Group. "An IEEE 1588 Telecommunications certificate of compliance offers the highest level of assurance in today's market to validate compliance to the IEEE 1588 standard."
The IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program provides significant benefits to both telecom operators and telecommunications systems solution vendors. Operators gain confidence knowing that certified products have undergone extensive testing to help establish functional consistency under multiple operational environments. The availability of an industry supported certification program may reduce the necessity for telecom operators to develop and manage their own testing and compliance programs, and therefore reduce the need for vendors to complete multiple service providers' separate test programs. This increases overall efficiency in the process for evaluating products.
ICAP, in its role as Certification Authority, certifies products that have successfully completed testing and deemed compliant. It also establishes the IEEE 1588 Telecommunications Certification Program policies, manages the day-to-day activities of the program, establishes and licenses the certification mark, issues the Certificates of Compliance and maintains the certified products registry.