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FEI Corporate
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FEI-Zyfer, Inc. |
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7321 Lincoln Way, Garden Grove, CA
92841-1428 |
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Toll Free: 888-886-7465 |
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Main Office: 714-933-4000 |
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Fax: 714-933-4001 |
Sales: 714-933-4002
sales@fei-zyfer.com |
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Technical Support: 714-933-4003 |
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the FEI-Zyfer headquarters building in Garden Grove,
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FEI-Zyfer
Overview |
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FEI-Zyfer's parent
company, Frequency Electronics Inc., was founded in
1961 and quickly gained world prominence in the
Precision Quartz Crystal Oscillator Technology.
FEI's ability to design, develop and fabricate
oscillators for the new demanding requirements gave
rise to its 80% world market share of spacecraft
clocks, which it has dominated for over 40 years. In
the ensuing '80s and '90s, FEI's technology base
expanded to other precision oscillator products,
including Rubidium and Cesium Atomic oscillators, as
well as a host of ground and space-borne RF products
and power sources. Today, FEI is a full service
producer of precision frequency sources, RF and
microwave components and systems, telecom systems,
and network security products; second to none in
technology. Throughout the years, FEI received many
awards and commendations for product and service
excellence from NASA, DoD, and related contractors.
Prior to joining the FEI family, Zyfer was part of
Odetics Inc., which spawned several
technology-related subsidiaries, including Zyfer.
Originally named Odetics Telecom, established in the
mid-'80s, was incorporated as Zyfer Inc. in 1999.
Among other pursuits, Zyfer embarked on a journey to
enter the GPS-related telecommunication market,
focusing on GPS-aided precision time and frequency
generation and synchronization products. Taking
advantage of the boom in the wireless industry,
Zyfer played a major role in populating Korean
cell-sites with more than 6,000 synchronization
systems. This success lead to the development of
other synchronization-related products, which form
the basis of the FEI-Zyfer product-set,
oriented toward the needs of the communications
system integrator. FEI- Zyfer's
core-competencies are:
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GPS Systems Expertise — Satellite, User, and
Control Segments
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SAASM GPS military receiver technology and
applications to Communications and
Command/Control terminals
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GPS/Oscillator Disciplining for improved
performance and holdover
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WAAS and GPS-augmentation systems application to
communications
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Applications and Imbedded software design and
architectures
The FEI-Zyfer team is expert in most aspects
of the synchronization field, including the related
precision frequency generating components. The team
is composed of innovative people who, either during
previous employment or as part of FEI-Zyfer,
have left their mark in the synchronization industry
with the following developments:
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1st space-rated Rubidium Atomic oscillator for
the Block-I/II GPS satellites and the 1st
military Rubidium atomic oscillators
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1st to develop the world's smallest Rubidium
atomic oscillator and introducing this hi-tech
product to the telecom industry
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1st GPS-aided Time and Frequency Synchronization
systems that fueled the wireless industry and
has become a world-standard
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Contribution to the development of the 1st
SAASM-GPS military receiver and its direct-P(Y)
acquisition functionality
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1st to develop the use of the SAASM-GPS
technology for military timing and
synchronization
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1st to develop the concept of using WAAS for
time and frequency applications
As an ISO-certified company, FEI-Zyfer offers
high-performance, innovative, and cost-effective
solutions for a variety of in-the-clear and secure
communication networks applications.
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Industry and Market Overview |
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The precision time, frequency, and synchronization
industry began in ancient times with the need for
knowing precise time throughout an extended
geographic area for observance of religious rituals,
warfare, navigation of ships, and ground travel. In
most recent history, precise time forged the
industrial revolution when it became the control
mechanism for world train travel and industry
machinery. Only a few decades ago, keeping a
relatively accurate time-scale was only possible in
limited geographic areas. But with the advent of the
GPS satellite navigation system and its on-board
master atomic clocks, it is now possible to
disseminate precise time (and frequency) to the
entire world, synchronizing its users to an accuracy
of better than 100 billionth of a second. As a
result, the need for precision time and frequency
has touched almost every aspect of our lives. In the
commercial sector for example, it is the heart of
our high-tech society, giving rise to our new world
of broadband communications and interconnectivity as
well as navigation/positioning capabilities for
civil and individual users; and there is no end in
sight for applications. In the governmental/military
communities, it is the engine that fuels the new
military technologies of precise navigation, weapons
targeting, and secure communications, command, and
operational control.
The precision time/frequency/synchronization
industry today makes use of the GPS system by
extracting mainly its precise time capability from
the highly accurate and stable atomic clocks
on-board each satellite. This is done by using GPS
timing receivers and electronically coupling its
signals to steer precision oscillators to stay on
track in both frequency and resultant time. These
sync systems in turn become the heart of the next
level system, which use its outputs to generate a
host of frequencies and signal framing rates to
synchronize the network terminals and its users. For
example, sync systems used in cell phone
base-stations provide the source for the
transmission frequencies that carry the data between
cell-sites and the cell phone users, distribute UTC
time, and synchronize all the stations in the
network so the user's conversation is seamlessly
transferred from one cell site to the next. The
biggest users of these precision sync technologies
are all the communications related industries,
government/military services, and public utilities.
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GPS
Time and Frequency Systems