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Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter)
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:02:39 -0400
In a message written on Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:57:21PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
Actually my question wasn't so much about other national standards labs, but that almost every major Internet backbone worldwide seems to trace their time source to GPS. Maybe not that surprising for US/North American providers, but even non-american backbones seem to use GPS.
Could it be that providers actually have multiple sources, but for some reason GPS is always picked as the primary source for the public facing function? At least a few providers keep their actual sources (the receivers themselves) "hidden", and provide a unix box syncing to all of them as the front end. From my limited knowledge, that front end box will only show the one source it has picked as "best". -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
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- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Peter Lothberg (Jun 01)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) David G. Andersen (Jun 01)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Marshall Eubanks (Jun 01)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Sean Donelan (Jun 01)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Leo Bicknell (Jun 02)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Sean Donelan (Jun 02)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) N. Richard Solis (Jun 02)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Roland Perry (Jun 02)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Marshall Eubanks (Jun 01)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) Jerry Scharf (Jun 28)
- Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter) David G. Andersen (Jun 01)