Jeff W. Boote schrieb:
I have some network locations where I have no way to access GPS or CDMA.
But, I would still like to have a very accurate time source. (I would
like sub-microsecond accuracy from NTPD if I can get it.) These
locations are in telco-hotels, so they are typically very well shielded
making any broadcast technology unworkable. (We are not using sonet - so
getting time from there is also not an option.)
I was thinking that it might be possible to get an oscillator to provide
a PPS signal, and then use a very well connected (possibly even a
dedicated network link with no router/switch) network peer as the
preferred peer. Is this a reasonable solution? Can anyone suggest
anything better?
The PPS would need to be calibrated... Is the normal ntp calibration
reasonable for this? I would guess it depends on the oscillator...
If this is a reasonable solution, does anyone have recommendations for
oscillators? Most of the ones I have seen want a reference source of
their own. This of course does not work in my case...
Thanks,
jeff
P.S. I will happily add information to the wiki on this after figuring
out how to do it. (If?)
Hi Jeff,
as already mentioned, sub-microsecond accuracy is not a possibility with
NTP these days. Did you check out PTP (IEEE 1588) instead
(ieee1588.nist.gov)?
We offer a NTP appliance that has its own free-running OCXO-HQ that is
disciplined by NTP over the network. Using a very smooth filtering and
applying only very small corrections allows us to get down to 50 to 100
microsecond accuracy in an "ideal" network environment, i.e.
crossover-cable.
The model is called LANTIME/NDT (Network Disciplined Timeserver) and you
can find it on our website (www.meinberg.de, see Products section).
I would say that you have to check out PTP if you really need to sync
down to the nanoseconds ...
Best regards,
Heiko
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