NextNav Partners With Adtran's Oscilloquartz To Leverage UTC-Aligned Timing Services Using 5G Infrastructure

New collaboration to demonstrate how terrestrial 5G-based timing can provide scalable solutions to complement and backup GPS

NextNav, a leader in resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technologies, today announced a strategic partnership with Oscilloquartz, an Adtran company and global leader in time synchronization solutions. The companies will showcase how 5G-powered terrestrial PNT and Oscilloquartz's proven timing technology could enable a scalable complement and backup to GPS capable of keeping critical systems like data centers, utilities, and emergency services running during outages.

This collaboration is intended to lead to a complementary and backup timing service layer to GPS, leveraging existing 5G infrastructure to distribute accurate, UTC-aligned time both indoors and outdoors. By fusing Oscilloquartz's best-in-class synchronization equipment with NextNav's terrestrial 5G PNT solution, the partnership will enable greater resiliency by adding an additional timing source to ensure end users are not dependent on a single timing source.