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croteyesterday at 3:11 PM1 replyview on HN

He seems to be using a GPS-2700[0], which has a price tag of about $5500 / €4700. I reckon you can find a better price if you get very lucky on the second-hand market, though.

[0]: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/GPS-2700


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opelloyesterday at 3:29 PM

It strikes me as strange that the article links to [1] which appears to be the same board, absent the "Viavi" logo on the main RF can, as the Microchip product you linked. I couldn't tell with a brief look if the Viavi product is offering something like software, configuration, tuning, etc. on top of GPS-2700 product.

The photo of the device on the article says "Jackson Labs" which seems to have been the previous name of "Viavi Solutions" and a review video [2] mentioned using Symmetricom atomic clock modules, which was acquired first by Microsemi (2013) and subsequently Microchip (2018)[3].

[1] https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/products/chip-scale-ato...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogN630jUSs

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetricom