BERN, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 4, 2024--
Adtran today announced that Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Metrology METAS has successfully deployed its OSA 3300 HP, improving national timekeeping performance and supporting critical scientific research. As the industry’s first high-performance optical cesium atomic clock, the OSA 3300 HP sets new standards for accuracy and stability, while assuring 10 years of operation. It also strengthens Switzerland’s contribution to Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), bolstering its position in the global timekeeping network. By providing an ultra-stable frequency source, the OSA 3300 HP offers major advances in the field of metrology, ensuring that Switzerland remains at the forefront of precision measurement and timekeeping.
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“The addition of the OSA 3300 HP to our metrological infrastructure is a significant step forward in our quest to provide the most precise and reliable timekeeping possible. The solution supports our contribution to BIPM and aligns perfectly with our mission to advance the science of measurement and maintain the highest standards of accuracy. By harnessing Adtran’s Oscilloquartz technology, we’re also cementing Switzerland’s position in the international timekeeping community,” said Jacques Morel, head of the laboratory photonics, time and frequency at METAS. “Achieving this milestone required close collaboration with the Oscilloquartz team. Their prompt delivery – completing the delivery within just two months from the purchase order – along with their expertise enabled a seamless integration, allowing us to uphold our commitment to the highest standards of efficiency and reliability without interruption.”
As the world’s first commercial optical cesium atomic clock, the OSA 3300 HP provides unmatched timing accuracy and long-term stability, offering a 10-year lifespan compared to the five-year performance of traditional magnetic deflection high-performance atomic clocks. Its advanced optical pumping technology ensures a stable frequency source, delivering nanosecond precision over an extended lifespan and significantly surpassing magnetic alternatives. This strengthens METAS’s ability to maintain Switzerland’s national measurement standards for time and frequency and to contribute to UTC. With its compact design, intuitive controls and remote SNMP management capabilities, the OSA 3300 HP integrates seamlessly into METAS’s time laboratory infrastructure, ensuring the integrity of its timekeeping operations and solidifying its status as a global leader in precision measurement and synchronization standards.
“METAS is at the forefront of precision measurement and timekeeping, setting global benchmarks for metrology standards. We’re proud to partner closely with them, making our industry-first high-performance optical cesium product a direct contributor to their UTC system and enhancing the accuracy and stability of global time synchronization,” commented Stuart Broome, GM of EMEA sales at Adtran. “The OSA 3300 HP, with its advanced optical pumping technology, delivers unparalleled timing precision and long-term reliability, significantly outperforming traditional high-performance magnetic deflection cesium clocks. Delivering the solution to METAS within an exceptionally short timeframe of less than two months also highlights our unwavering commitment to efficiency and reliability. Now a vital part of METAS’s infrastructure, this innovative technology provides a stable, ultra-precise frequency source that uniquely meets the stringent demands of scientific research and industrial applications worldwide.”
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Adtran’s OSA 3300 HP is helping METAS deliver ultra-precise and reliable timekeeping. (Photo: Business Wire)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 people across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, hitting Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, as the daily bombardment continues and the latest efforts toward a ceasefire appear to have stalled.
“Everyone was taking shelter in their tents from the cold, and suddenly we found the world turning upside down. Why, and for what?” said Ziyad Abu Jabal, displaced from Gaza City, after the strike in the seaside humanitarian zone known as Muwasi.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are huddling in Muwasi in damp winter weather.
The early morning strike there killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior Hamas police officers.
Israel’s military said it targeted a senior officer in the Hamas-run police force. It said he was involved in gathering intelligence used by Hamas’ armed wing in attacks on Israeli forces.
Another Israeli strike killed at least eight Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The men were members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. An Associated Press reporter there confirmed the toll.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strike.
In southern Gaza, Israel’s military killed five policemen in eastern Khan Younis. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said the strike targeted the head of the Hamas internal security force in southern Gaza.
“Where did we find him? Where else, but of course hiding in the humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, where Gazans are sheltering from this war,” Mencer said.
Israel has repeatedly targeted the police in Gaza during 15 months of war, contributing to a breakdown of law and order in the territory that has made it difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver aid. Israel accuses the militant Hamas group of hijacking aid for its own purposes.
The Hamas-run government had a police force numbering in the tens of thousands that maintained a high degree of public security before the war, while also violently suppressing dissent. Now officers have largely vanished from the streets in many areas.
Meanwhile, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a group of people walking in the street in Maghazi in central Gaza. Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
The war was sparked by Hamas-led militants’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into Israel. The militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive in retaliation has killed over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory's Health Ministry, which says women and children make up more than half the dead. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their tally.
Israel's military says it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because its fighters operate in dense residential areas. The army says it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, many of them multiple times.
Hunger is widespread. Children, some barefoot or in sandals, waited in line with metal pails or other containers at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital Thursday after having prostate surgery Sunday.
Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said Netanyahu was recuperating well, although he has a period of recovery ahead. Despite doctor’s orders to remain hospitalized, the 75-year-old leader briefly left the facility to participate in a vote in Israel’s parliament on Tuesday.
Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed. But the militant group, while greatly weakened, has repeatedly regrouped in parts of the territory — notably the largely isolated north — after Israeli forces withdraw.
Khaled reported from Cairo.
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Palestinians collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Two Palestinian boys wait to collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli soldier weeps in front of a memorial at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed or kidnapped by Hamas, near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel, close to the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A man mourns over the body of a Palestinian man killed during an Israeli army strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. The strike killed at least eight men members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians pray over the body before the funeral of a man killed during an Israeli army strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A body is carried to the area outside the hospital after an Israeli army strike early Thursday morning in the Muwasi area, in Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, the airstrike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior police officers, in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians inspect the site of an earlier Israeli army strike in the Muwasi area, in Khan Younis, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, the airstrike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior police officers, in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli soldier covers his ears as an artillery gunner fires into the Gaza Strip from a position in southern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025.(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Israeli soldiers stand in a bullet-ridden house during a tour for army personnel to observe the damage caused by the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in Israel, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Palestinian girls collect donated food at a food distribution center in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov))
