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IEEE 1952 Resilience Levels: Verify

April 9, 2025 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet Timing Level 5, verify, is the highest resilience level according to the IEEE P1952 project. To meet this highest level of resilience PNT equipment must not only withstand an adversity against a PNT input … [Continue reading]

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IEEE 1952 PNT Resilience Levels: Withstand

March 3, 2025 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet TimingWelcome to the next installment on my series of posts about timing equipment resilience in the language of the IEEE P1952 project. It’s time to talk about level four: Withstand.Withstand is a lot like the Resist … [Continue reading]

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IEEE 1952 PNT Resilience Levels: Resist

February 10, 2025 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet TimingI’d like to tell you something about the next IEEE P1952 resilience level in our series. If you missed it, I have been posting about the proposed resilience levels from the IEEE P1952 project. Today’s topic is … [Continue reading]

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IEEE 1952 PNT Resilience Levels: Recovery

December 16, 2024 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet TimingWelcome to the next installment on my series of posts about timing equipment resilience in the language of the IEEE P1952 project. It’s time to talk about recovery … for clocks that is. The first question about … [Continue reading]

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IEEE 1952 PNT Resilience Levels: Detecting Adversities

August 15, 2024 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Ten Minute Facts about Packet Timing (sorry this one needs to be a little longer)In my last post I talked about the behaviors that timing equipment should exhibit to achieve resilience in the face of adverse conditions, according to the draft … [Continue reading]

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IEEE 1952 PNT Resilience Levels

June 26, 2024 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five-minute facts about packet timingA while back I posted on the start of an standards development project: IEEE 1952, or P1952 as they call it in the IEEE standards world. The P stands for project, and that means that it has not yet grown up to … [Continue reading]

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How to pick an oscillator for holdover

April 29, 2024 by Douglas Arnold 2 Comments

5 Minute Facts About Packet TimingYou have a holdover requirement, and you need to select an oscillator from the choices presented to you by your timing equipment vendor. More stable oscillators are better, but they also cost more. You want to know … [Continue reading]

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What is gPTP?

March 27, 2024 by Douglas Arnold 2 Comments

Five-minute facts about packet timinggPTP is the name given to the IEEE 802.1AS profile of PTP. gPTP is only sort of a PTP profile. That is because gPTP is independently specified. In other words, rather than stating that it requires, forbids, … [Continue reading]

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What happened at the last ISPCS PTP Plugfest

February 9, 2024 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet Timing After three years off for the pandemic, which felt like thirty, the ISPCS has been meeting in person again.  In Vienna in 2022, London in 2023, and this year it will be in Tokyo in October.  The … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: IEEE 1588

Problems with Unicast PTP

December 19, 2023 by Douglas Arnold Leave a Comment

Five Minute Facts about Packet Timing When PTPv2 was defined the IEEE 1588 working group recognized that some networks, which could benefit from precise network timing, would not support multicast protocols.  So, a unicast version of PTP was … [Continue reading]

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