Orolia, Inc. (formerly Spectracom Corporation) was a global manufacturer of precision time and frequency instruments and network-centric equipment used in a wide range of industries.
Other early products included WWVB frequency and time standards which offered atomic clock accuracy at a fraction of the cost.
This led to widespread use of these products in vital communications networks, such as two-way police radio simulcast systems, and master clocks for accurate time stamping of data and events within emergency call centers (such as 9-1-1 public safety answering points).
These plug-in computer or instrument chassis cards provide precise timing within dedicated applications using GPS or IRIG timecode.
[1] The Spectracom brand has been applied to other Orolia acquisitions: Temex Sync, France (2007),[2] Rapco Electronics, UK (2008),[3] and Pendulum Instruments, Sweden (2009).