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 […]
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 […]
MIFID II Compliance: The Meinberg FAQ
By Heiko Gerstung. We receive an ever increasing number of questions from our customers regarding MiFID 2 and the time synchronzation of RTS 25 and therefore decided to publish the answers here in one place: 1. What is MiFID 2 ? The Directive on markets in financial instruments (MiFID 2) is an European regulation for […]
PTP in networks without timing support
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold. In an earlier post I described how boundary clocks and transparent clocks correct for timing errors in the network between the PTP grandmaster and PTP slaves. But what do you do if you don’t have boundary clocks or transparent clocks? What if you have a bunch […]
Saving electrical power in railway grids
By Andreja Jarc. The production and demand of electrical power must be the same at all times for stability and optimal operation of railway power grids. If there is too much power it will dissipate as heat or cause an over load at a transform station with a damaging result. On the other hand, not having […]
Time Synchronization Requirement for Synchrophasers
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold. The IEEE Standard for Synchrophaser Measurements for Power Systems (IEEE C37.118.1 -2011) recommends that phase measurement equipment in power systems by synchronized to UTC to within 1 μs. That is fairly strict timing requirement for a system that deals with voltages and currents at the low frequencies […]