FSMLabs Cybersecurity Finite State Machine Labs Inc (FSMLabs) FSMLabs is a US (Austin, Texas) based technology development company focused on clock synchronization. FSMLabs’s “TimeKeeper® ”,software and hardware is employed by 6 of the world’s 10 largest banks, the InterContinental Exchange (owners of the NY Stock Exchange), and some of the most technically advanced electronic trading…
Nanosecond Range Windows Accuracy with TimeKeeper FSMLabs has released a technical report validating reliable TimeKeeper® for Microsoft Windows clock accuracy to within one microsecond of UTC. TimeKeeper’s advanced clock steering algorithms exploit new Windows APIs (some not in general release yet) and Nvidia Networking Mellanox ConnectX® 10G adapters with hardware timestamp capability. TimeKeeper clock synchronization on Windows has been orders of magnitude…
Time Protection in Depth at Every Level with TimeKeeper The TimeKeeper suite of hardware and software products create a time network that offers highly accurate synchronization, with error-checking, validation, protection and mitigation of time, and the ability to manage and audit the time network. In-depth time protection against GPS/GNSS, NTP/PTP and other network/machine-related vulnerabilities for…
2020 WSTS Covid 19 Presentation Timing in the Face of COVID-19: A Look at Financial Market Impacts presentation by Victor Yodaiken at virtual 2020 WSTS on May 13, 2020. The graph above shows a solid NTP internet clock source (blue) versus a precise GPS source (green). The GPS source locks system time to within a few tens of…
TimeKeeper Competitive Survey TimeKeeper time and clock synchronization sets the standard for Enterprise and for Financial Trading. TimeKeeper management, fault-tolerance, traceable audit, and superior accuracy are not matched by any other product. This technical note compares TimeKeeper’s operation in the presence of a common network issue with the operation of free software provided to purchasers…
Apple Watch time technology The Apple Watch is claimed to have 50 milliseconds time accuracy Apple says its new consumer electronic watch will synchronize to within 50 milliseconds of UTC time. Most of our customers in the financial trading sector need time to be within a microsecond – 50 thousand times better, but we were…
Best Practices with TimeKeeper® SourceCheck (2016) The TimeKeeper ‘SourceCheck’ feature is an analytics and automated threat detection tool that allows TimeKeeper to detect bad time sources and switch away from them. Bad time can come from misconfiguration, equipment and software failures or intentional time based attacks. SourceCheck can detect and defeat them. SourceCheck combines a…
TimeKeeper Versus Solarflare SFPTPd Comparison TimeKeeper time and clock synchronization sets the standard for Enterprise and for Financial Trading. TimeKeeper management, fault-tolerance, traceable audit, and superior accuracy are not matched by any other product. This technical note compares TimeKeeper’s operation in the presence of a common network issue with the operation of free software provided…
Doug Arnold, Principal Technologist at Meinberg and IEEE 1588 Working Group Chair, has recently written some blog posts about IEEE 1588 PTP changes that bring the standard closer to TimeKeeper’s fault tolerance approach. One of the earliest design decisions we made for TimeKeeper was to escape the limitations of both NTP and PTP by allowing the core…