Symmetricom to Purchase Agilent's Frequency and Time Product Line
-- Test & Measurement World, 6/27/2005 8:32:00 AM
Symmetricom, San Jose, CA, will purchase Agilent Technologies' line of frequency and time products for approximately $8 million. The product line includes the 5071A primary frequency standard cesium clock. The cesium clock, accurate to one s every 162,000 years, is used in government laboratories worldwide. Customers include national time authorities and measurement institutes, such as the US Naval Observatory and the world's time authority, BIPM, in France (BIPM provides the internationally recognized definition of a second of time).
Symmetricom has made job offers to all of the Santa Clara, CA-based Agilent employees who support the product line. Manufacturing will move to San Jose following a transition period.
