Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Andreja Jarc. In this post I would like to introduce a method which can be deployed in versatile PTP networks, professional media, power or any other timing network. Basically, it is a method which uses a combination of PTP and the Meinberg MRS (Multi-Reference-Source) feature which build together […]
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Performance Level Options for the Meinberg HPS100 card
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Andreja Jarc. I promised you in my earlier post, that I will update you on how to pick the right license model and performance level of your High-Performance Synchronization (HPS100) card. Each performance level defines a number of packets / second or number of unicast slaves that can […]
Meinberg High-Performance Sync card (HPS100)
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Andreja Jarc. Those of you who know Meinberg may have noticed that Meinberg typically does not talk about licenses. The reason for this is, that Meinberg, in most cases, does not charge you extra for enabling specific features or functions. With our free lifetime support and firmware update […]
Use Cases for Timing in Power Grids
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Andreja Jarc. Evolution of Grids The power grid has been operating for a long time, long before data networks and ethernet systems were popular. It is one of the world’s largest infrastructures and also one of the most robust one. Therefore, one might ask, why are we not […]
PTP Telecom Profile in Power Grids
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Andreja Jarc. Synchronization in Power Networks There are a few different timing technologies which are used for synchronization in power grids. Traditional power systems use IRIG-B which can deliver from 1 us to a few micro seconds accuracy, depending on whether you are using the TTL or AM […]
Sync Monitor for PTP Networks: How does it work?
By Andreja Jarc. Meinberg introduced a new monitoring tool called Sync Monitor, which is available in all Meinberg LANTIME Systems with firmware 6.22 or later. Sync Monitor is used for monitoring the performance of NTP or PTP nodes in your network and can be accessed via the web interface. Moreover, it also enables monitoring of […]
Trusted Source Mode
By Andreja Jarc. In the latest release of our LANTIME firmware 6.24 you can find a new feature called Trusted Source. This additional functionality is much awaited by everyone who is looking for a method that will help to mitigate vulnerabilities of the GPS signal. Anomalies in the GPS timing caused by unfriendly signal spoofing […]
Time of Day, Phase and Frequency – select your source
By Andreja Jarc. Time can mean many things. For purpose of synchronization, we are trying to determine a sequence of events or we want to compare how long an event lasts. Usually we are talking about the Time of Day (ToD), which represents a “wall clock time” – a specific time with hours, minutes, seconds […]
Multi Reference Clock
By Andreja Jarc. You have probably already heard about a Multi Reference Clock Source from Meinberg, commonly referred as an MRS. What is it about? This is a receiver that can use other input signals in addition to GNSS to synchronize the system. Therefore its name: Multi- Reference- Source. The reference signals commonly used may […]
Don’t Miss the Moment when Meinberg’s PTP Track Hound is being Unleashed!
PTP Track Hound is a free network capturing tool and analyzer designed for PTP’s special requirements, replacing standard generic tools like Wireshark. Release date will be August 24, 2017 at 9:00 UTC. Meanwhile, visit the PTP Track Hound website for more information. Make sure to stay tuned, because every Monday until release date one of […]