On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:31:13PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> With SyncE over 0.5m cable, I get delay values of 0 or 1 ns.  In fact,
> using this setup I see 5 ns per meter of cable, and that matches the
> expected physical signal delay over copper.  So you can measure the
> patch cable lengths using PTP/SyncE!
> 
> Useful?  Maybe not, but it is still cool anyways.

A similar feature with non-SyncE PTP could be measuring temperature of
the environment from the frequency offset of the clock :).

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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