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Symmetricom, a San Jose, CA-based provider of time synchronization systems, is this week releasing general availability for a new clock card that applies timestamps accurate to within 600 nanoseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to tick data and performance metrics, to help improve strategy development, network monitoring and risk management. The new SyncPoint PCle-1000 Precise Time Protocol (PTP) Clock Card for Linux synchronizes its time to the vendor's GPS-referenced SyncServer S350 PTP Grandmaster clock -- which provides time within 50 nanoseconds of UTC -- and then writes that time directly to the server memory, from which a Linux-based trading application can read it without needing to request the time over the network, which introduces delays, says Paul Kloog, product marketing manager at Symmetricom.