Cherry & White Partners with Timebeat to Deliver Precision Timing Solutions

Cherry & White has partnered with Timebeat to bring precision time synchronisation solutions to customers across critical national infrastructure.

The partnership brings together Cherry & White’s experience in delivering mission-critical connectivity with Timebeat’s specialist timing technology, strengthening its offering across utilities, energy, rail, telecoms and emergency response.

 

Key Highlights of the Partnership:

• Precision Timing Solutions: Cherry & White will bring Timebeat’s PTP, NTP and GNSS/GPS grandmaster clock solutions to customers across critical infrastructure sectors.
• Resilient Connectivity & Timing: Combining Cherry & White’s connectivity expertise with Timebeat’s precision timing technology provides customers with a more complete infrastructure solution.
• Open-Standard Technology: Timebeat’s solutions are built around open standards, including IEEE 1588v2 and the OCP Time Appliance Project, supporting resilient and traceable time distribution without vendor lock-in.
• End-to-End Infrastructure: Precision timing complements Cherry & White’s existing network, Wi-Fi and 5G capabilities, supporting applications where accurate synchronisation is increasingly important.

 

Strengthening Critical Infrastructure

As power grids, substations, rail networks and 5G deployments become increasingly dependent on accurate timing, synchronisation is becoming an important part of network design.

Timebeat’s technology enables Cherry & White to extend its infrastructure offering beyond connectivity, helping customers address the timing requirements associated with automation, fault detection, communications and increasingly stringent synchronisation and compliance requirements.

Timebeat’s software platform also provides real-time visibility of PTP, NTP and GNSS timing across networks, with monitoring, alerting and historical analysis designed to help organisations identify and respond to timing issues.

The partnership supports organisations as they move from traditional Network Time Protocol (NTP) towards Precision Time Protocol (PTP), while helping them address the increasingly demanding timing requirements of modern, automated infrastructure.

 

“Connectivity is only part of the equation for today’s critical infrastructure. As networks become more automated and dependent on precise timing, synchronisation is becoming just as important. Working with Timebeat allows us to bring these capabilities together and give our present and future customers a stronger foundation for the next generation of national critical infrastructure.”

Steve Slim, Chief Executive Officer, Cherry & White Limited

The partnership builds on Cherry & White’s more than 30 years of experience delivering and supporting infrastructure for organisations across the utility, defence, rail and government sectors. For Timebeat, it provides an established route into critical national infrastructure environments where reliable synchronisation is increasingly essential.

 

“Precision timing has moved from a background utility to a key requirement, and the operators who need it most are yet to realise this. Cherry & White have spent over thirty years earning trust inside UK critical national infrastructure, which makes them the right hands to put our technology into. This partnership gets open synchronisation to operators who cannot afford to get it wrong.”

Ian Gaugh, Co-Founder, Timebeat

 

The partnership is effective immediately, with joint opportunities already being explored across Cherry & White’s utilities, energy and transport client base. Both companies will also provide the technical support and training required to help customers successfully deploy the solutions.

 

About Timebeat

Timebeat is a UK-based technology company specialising in precision time synchronisation. Its portfolio includes GNSS/GPS grandmaster clocks, PCIe timecards and software for synchronisation, observability, analytics and compliance. Its solutions support PTP, NTP, automation and live monitoring across critical network environments.

Timebeat’s open-standard approach is designed to provide organisations with resilient and traceable time distribution across their networks, supporting demanding performance and compliance requirements.

For more information about Timebeat, visit timebeat.app

 

About Cherry & White

Cherry & White is a UK-based networking solutions provider specialising in telecommunications networks for business and critical national infrastructure.

With more than 30 years’ experience, Cherry & White supports organisations across utilities, defence, government, rail and emergency services with high-quality technology solutions, infrastructure and technical support.

 

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