I. Project Name

Procurement and Deployment Project for High-Precision Time-Synchronization Servers in the Research Data Center of the 36th Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

II. Duration of Cooperation

2026 year

III. Client Introduction

The 36th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation is a leading domestic research institution, deeply engaged in core scientific fields such as electronic information, communication technologies, measurement and control technologies, and precision instrument development. It focuses on key areas including defense‑related research, breakthroughs in electronic technologies, and the R&D of high‑end equipment, undertaking numerous priority research projects. The institute boasts a comprehensive research‑and‑experimentation infrastructure, a highly skilled technical R&D team, and a standardized laboratory environment. It adheres to stringent industry standards for equipment operational stability, time‑synchronization accuracy, system security, and domestic‑component compatibility, making it one of the most influential core research institutions in China’s electronics sector.

IV. Purchased Products

Beijing Zhongxin Chuang DNTS-9 High precision NTP Network Time Server

This device is an intelligent, domestically produced, high-precision time‑synchronization system independently developed by Zhongxin Chuang. Its core components are fully domestically manufactured, featuring a Chinese‑made processor and a domestically produced satellite‑receiving module, and it supports the BeiDou‑3 system. GPS 、 GLONASS Supporting time synchronization across multiple satellite systems, it can serve as a Tier‑1 network time‑keeping device, suitable for high‑precision, high‑reliability applications in scientific research, aerospace, and the defense industry. It features remote operations and maintenance, redundant backup, and high‑accuracy timekeeping, fully meeting the stringent operational requirements of the research sector.

V. Customer Requirements

As a research institution, the 36th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation conducts all its scientific experiments, data acquisition, equipment measurement and control, and system integration testing through a standardized data center network. Moreover, its precision scientific instruments, data processing systems, and measurement‑and‑control terminals all require a unified standard time reference. Taking into account the specific characteristics of its research activities, the customer’s core requirements are as follows:

1. High-precision time synchronization requirements: Scientific experimental data, equipment operation logs, and telemetry records must be synchronized to the millisecond level or even the nanosecond level. Accurate Time synchronization eliminates experimental data distortion and equipment integration anomalies caused by time drift.

2. High-stability, uninterrupted operation requirements: As most research projects are long-term and ongoing, the equipment must support 7×24 It operates continuously for hours and can maintain high‑precision timekeeping even when satellite signals are interrupted, ensuring the continuity of scientific research.

3. Domestic‑sourced, secure, and controllable requirements: To meet the information technology innovation (ITI) standards of the research sector, equipment must achieve domestic substitution for core software and hardware, mitigate external technological risks, and comply with security regulations for classified research environments.

4. Convenient operations and maintenance, along with compatibility and adaptation requirements: The equipment must be compatible with the institute’s existing data center network architecture, support multiple remote management methods, and provide time‑synchronization services in bulk to various research terminals, servers, and measurement‑and‑control devices within the network, thereby reducing operational and maintenance costs.

5. Redundancy and Protection Requirements: The system must incorporate robust fault-tolerance and redundancy mechanisms to eliminate single points of failure and ensure the secure, stable operation of the entire time‑synchronization infrastructure.

VI. Solution

Based on the customer’s research‑data center application scenarios and core requirements, Beijing Zhongxin Chuang has customized a high‑precision time‑synchronization solution tailored to the research environment. The core deployment and configuration plan is as follows:

1. Core Equipment Deployment: Deployed in the server cabinets of the institute’s core research data center. DNTS-9 NTP The server, serving as the primary time reference for the entire data center network, provides standardized time synchronization services to all networked scientific instruments, data systems, and measurement‑control terminals.

2. Dual-satellite timing configuration: By default, the device prioritizes BeiDou-3 satellite timing while remaining compatible with multiple satellite navigation systems, achieving timing accuracy better than… ±30 ns , fully meeting the high-precision time synchronization requirements of various precision scientific experiments and ensuring the integrity of experimental data. Accurate Traceable.

3. Independent Timekeeping Assurance: The device is equipped with a high‑performance rubidium atomic clock, enabling autonomous, long‑term, high‑precision timekeeping even under extreme weather conditions, signal blockage, or satellite outages, thereby ensuring uninterrupted operation of scientific research and related services.

4. Domestic‑made IT innovation adaptation: The entire system employs domestically produced core chips, a domestic operating system, and a self‑developed time‑synchronization algorithm, ensuring that the core technologies are independently controllable and fully compliant with the IT‑innovation and security‑compliance requirements of the research and defense sectors.

5. High‑Reliability Redundant Design: The device is equipped with dual redundant power supplies and multiple isolated Gigabit Ethernet ports, supporting multi‑unit hot backup and automatic switchover via heartbeat detection. This effectively mitigates the risk of single‑point hardware failures, significantly enhancing system operational stability.

6. Intelligent and convenient operations and maintenance: supported Web 、 SSH 、 SNMP With multiple remote management options and a dedicated management platform, it enables real-time monitoring of device status, remote configuration of timing parameters, and statistical analysis of operational data, thereby streamlining data center operations and maintenance.

VII. Implementation Outcomes

Following the completion of deployment and commissioning, the project has been officially put into regular operation in the research data center of the 36th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, meeting the customer’s requirements for time synchronization in scientific research. The overall implementation has yielded positive results.

1. Achieve network-wide time synchronization: Completely resolves the issue of time discrepancies among various scientific instruments, data systems, and telemetry‑control terminals within the data center, ensuring that all terminals are time‑synchronized. Accurate , with controllable errors, ensuring the authenticity, accuracy, and traceability of scientific research data and equipment operation records.

2. Stable and reliable operation: The equipment, backed by a highly redundant architecture and premium hardware configuration, achieves… 7×24 It delivers continuous, stable operation around the clock, boasts an outstanding mean time between failures, and exhibits exceptional star‑tracking timing accuracy, making it fully suited to long‑term scientific research missions.

3. Meets indigenous innovation compliance requirements: Featuring a fully domestic core configuration, it mitigates external technical security risks and aligns with the national cybersecurity and indigenous innovation standards for research institutions.

4. Significant improvement in operations and maintenance efficiency: Intelligent remote O&M capabilities have effectively reduced the complexity of data center equipment management, lowered manual O&M costs, and enhanced the overall standardization of operations and maintenance in research data centers.

5. Adaptable to diverse research scenarios: It can reliably support core operations such as precision scientific experiments, equipment integration and testing, and data acquisition and analysis, providing a robust time‑synchronization foundation to ensure the smooth progress of research projects at the institute.

VIII. Typical Application Cases

Beijing Zhongxin Chuang has been deeply engaged in the time and frequency field for many years, with its subsidiaries… NTP Leveraging advantages such as high precision, exceptional stability, domestic production, and broad compatibility, our clock server products serve a wide range of high‑end sectors in China, including aerospace, scientific research, defense industries, rail transit, and power & telecommunications. Our collaborative partners include: the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the Tianma Radio Telescope of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shenzhou‑14 manned spacecraft, the Shanghai Academy of Spacecraft Technology, the China Electric Power Research Institute, the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Institute of Atomic Energy, the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optical Technology of the National Astronomical Observatories, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the Lanzhou Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Railway Scientific Research Institute, the Instrument Research Institute of the Nanjing Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, and the … of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. 54 Research Institute, the Tenth Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, the Eighth Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, the Fifteenth Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, the Thirty-Sixth Research Institute of CETC, the Xi’an Flight Automatic Control Research Institute of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, the Beijing‑1 Satellite Ground Station, China Putian, Shanghai Lizheng Satellite Application Technology, the Shanghai Small Satellite Engineering Center, the Chongqing Transportation Science Research Institute of China Merchants Group, the Railway Research Institute, the Lanzhou Institute of Physics, the …th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. 12 Research institutes, including the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 36th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, and the Institute of Information Science, among many other authoritative research institutions and major state-owned enterprises.

The choice of numerous departments and enterprises reflects recognition of Zhongxin Chuang’s products and services. By working in close collaboration with partners from all sectors, we are jointly advancing toward win‑win outcomes for businesses and society alike.