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Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems 2026
May 4-7
Bellevue, WA
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Timing at the Edge: Enabling AI, Autonomy, and Resilience
ATIS’ Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) brings together the leading corporate and government experts to shed light on the diverse and exciting innovation taking place in the field of synchronization and timing.
Calnex at WSTS 2026
As well as exhibiting and once again sponsoring WSTS, Calnex will be presenting two not to be missed papers, answering two key questions:
How Can Aerospace and Defense Benefit From Telecom ?
May 5, 202611:40 am – 11:55 am
Speaker – Adam Paterson, Calnex
The current geopolitical landscape is making the topic of timing in aerospace and defense of particular interest within the WSTS community, especially as related to the increasing need for robustness and resiliency in the timing in navigation and guidance systems. Some of the solutions and challenges addressed by the telecom industry, have often been applied to other industries. While solutions applied to the Aerospace and Defense sector are typically developed in isolation from other industries, some of the solutions developed to support the telecom industry can be valuable in also in the Aerospace and Defense context. In particular, being telecom one of the key critical infrastructures, similar challenges related to the needs for an increased resiliency and robustness in timing must be addressed. Starting from inputs from partners that active within the Aerospace and Defense sector, this talk will provide an analyse on how telecom’ solutions and standards related to resiliency and robustness in timing, could be applied to a context as the Aerospace and Defense.
What is Happening with Synchronization in Data Centres?
Speakers – Stefano Ruffini, Calnex Solutions, Ankur Sharma, Equinix, Inc
A fundamental milestone for synchronization in data centres will be reached at the ITU-T SG15 (October 2025) with the planned release the first edition of a Supplement on synchronization in data centre. The Supplement puts together considerations on target time sync requirements, suitable solutions, clocks, etc. as agreed by some of the major users and vendors active within the data centre industry. The benefits in distributing synchronizing among servers in a data centre range from minimizing power consumption to guarantee the correctness of operations distributed over multiple servers. These benefits will be particular visible in case such as AI data centres. This talk will summarize efforts done in various bodies, particular focus on the ITU-T Supplement, to define requirements and harmonize solutions that can be implemented within various types of data centres. The plan is to present in cooperation with partners, the results of an analysis of timing accuracy and latency measurements, with particular emphasis on observability and correlation across distributed systems. These are aspects particularly relevant as data centres evolve toward AI and large-scale distributed systems.