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…
A 2014 paper by engineers at IMC, NYSE, and Deutsche-Boerse spotlights single point of failures in IEEE 1588 PTP. Read More >
NTP can be the basis for UTC traceable 1 microsecond accurate time. Read More
One of the most interesting things we saw in the proposed IEEE 1588 enterprise profile was a bold suggestion on fault tolerance that looked familiar. Here’s FSMLabs press release from September 2011 TimeKeeper 5.0 offers the ability to monitor multiple time distribution channels, even those operating on different time distribution standards or of different quality…