Meta plans to deploy a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), to keep every server in its data centers on the same time. The company said that it had successfully piloted PTP at ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography ...

One of the challenges facing those developing networks featuring wirelessly connected devices is maintaining a common clock time. A popular way of doing this is by using Network Time Protocol (NTP), a ...

The project illustrates how reliable time is provided by several time servers using Network time Protocol (NTP) based on AVR. The project illustrates how reliable time is provided by several time ...

In 2012, two servers run by the U.S. Navy rolled back their clocks 12 years, deciding it was the year 2000. The servers were very important: they’re part of a worldwide network that helps computers ...

When you want to synchronize files between remote network equipment and servers at a main facility, all computers must have the accurate Universal Time Coordinated, or UTC, an official standard for ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to ...

The IEEE 1588 Standard Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is being used by industrial automation applications for precise time synchronization (PTS) on Ethernet networks. PTS provides accurate time ...