Chronos

Chronos has 30 years’ experience in researching, developing and supplying sync and timing generation for telecoms, finance, power, scientific and military applications in the following key areas:

• Manufacturer of timing systems utilising GNSS, terrestrial and network time sources. Channel partner and value added reseller of timing systems for key industry suppliers
• Provider of knowledge and training services for timing systems and pure technology courses such as Synchronisation MasterClass delivered to over 1200 delegates worldwide
  
• Provider of consultancy and test services to the timing industry in both lab and field environments, includes timing infrastructure, network design and testing, system design, test and qualification
  
• Installation and commissioning services for timing and synchronisation systems worldwide
  
• Founded the International Timing and Synchronisation Forum (ITSF), member of ITU-T SG15, Q13 - Network Synchronization and Time Distribution Performance
  

Within iqClock Chronos will benchmark the integrated optical lattice clock (Task 1).

Team members

Charles Curry is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), and founder & Managing Director of Chronos Technology Ltd. Charles graduated in Electronics from Liverpool University in 1973 and started his career at GEC Hirst Research Centre working on silicon MOS boundary research, progressing to Racal Instruments where he was responsible for sales of test equipment including specialist frequency and time products such as Loran C and Caesium standards. In the early 1980s while with GSE Rentals, Charles was involved with some of the first civil GPS and laptop PC deployments into the North Sea offshore oil exploration industry.
He founded Chronos in 1986, a leading global system integrator, service solutions provider and manufacturer for synchronisation, timing, GNSS and GPS jamming, detection products based in the UK. Chronos has supplied and installed many thousands of GPS & Timing systems worldwide for mobile and fixed-line telecom operators. The Chronos Synchronisation MasterClass has been delivered to more than 1200 delegates across the globe.
Charles founded the International Timing & Sync Forum (ITSF) in 2001 and is also a member of the Workshop on Synchronization in the USA Telecommunications Systems (WSTS) Steering Group which meets annually. Charles is also a member of the Industry Advisory Boards for the Universities of Liverpool and Bath, Electrical and Electronics Faculties.  In 2012 Charles was awarded Honorary Professorships from both Universities.

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Calum Dalmey has over 30 years experience in the electronics industry, with nearly 15 years experience specialising in all areas of timing and synchronisation for the telecom and datacom market sectors with an in-depth knowledge of the use of GNSS for timing systems and protocols such as IEEE 1588 PTP. Calum heads up the product development group within Chronos Technology and has direct responsibility for all R&D activities and product roadmaps, and also serves as a member of the executive management team.

Anthony Flavin joined the Post Office Research department (later to become BT) as an apprentice in 1974 and started his career in electronic and semiconductor design for early digital transmission systems. Later he helped develop the first optical fibre networks, before specialising in SDH and network synchronisation. He represented BT’s interests globally at ETSI and ITU for SDH and OTN/DWDM transport systems and gained experience across network design, procure, test, development and rollout. In the later years with BT he was responsible for BT’s Timing platforms supporting frequency time and phase across all of its platform domains. At Chronos, Tony is responsible for strategic research, technical support within the research projects and helping new products to emerge into the marketplace.