New Wireless Innovation Forum Specification Enables Radio Platforms to Provide Radio Applications with Knowledge of Time News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) today announced the approval of a Time Facility specification (WINNF-TS-3004) and supporting Facilities Principles report (WINNF-TR-2007). The specification is an internationally supported application programming interface (API) that harmonizes views across users of the legacy Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) Timing Service API, improving previous specifications' coverage and quality, and extending functional coverage. "This exciting specification noticeably improves currently available standards for time handling within software defined radios," said Eric Nicollet of Thales, Co-chair of the WInnForum Software Defined Systems Committee and leader of the Time Service Facility development team. "It will bring more portability to SDR applications and more hospitality to SDR platforms. It clarifies several known ambiguities of the previous standards, and specifies valuable additional technical capabilities, such as support of International Atomic Time and more accurate handling of time uncertainties."