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 […]
The virtues of clock watching: Why it’s important to monitor your timing network
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold A network architect’s job is never done. It is not enough to design the network, and see that design implemented. You need to keep checking to make sure that everything still works as the network evolves. It’s certainly true for your network-based timing system. First remember […]
What’s coming in the 2019 Edition of IEEE 1588: Special Ports
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold Our next update on what’s in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588 , delves into the mysterious sounding topic of special ports. A special port happens when a PTP network interfaces with a transport media which has a built in timing mechanism. Two examples are Wi-Fi and Ethernet […]
What’s coming in the 2019 Edition of IEEE 1588: Modular Transparent Clocks
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold As I promised earlier, I will be updating you on what’s in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588. One of the treasures that you will find is the ability to build modular Transparent Clocks (aka, modular TCs). That is TCs which can be built by installing […]
What’s In the 2019 Edition of IEEE 1588?
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold The new edition of IEEE 1588, IEEE 1588-2019 is finally available. The name is based on the year it approved by the IEEE Standards Board, not the year it is published. So, what’s there? Everything that was added or changed was for the purpose of: Making […]
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 […]
The Art of Negotiation, the PTP Way
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold and Andreja Jarc A previous post discussed unicast PTP. Most PTP Profiles are based on multicast communication. However, PTP can operate using unicast. This is necessary in networks which don’t support multicast, or if there is a large number of PTP slaves, which would generate too […]
Hybrid Mode PTP: Mixed Multicast and Unicast
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold. Quiet! Such is the lament of a PTP slave in a delay request – delay response PTP network. A slave port needs to receive Sync and Announce messages from a master port, and it needs to send Delay_Request messages and receive the corresponding Delay_Responses. If the […]
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 On-Path Support Tests (Part II)
By Andreja Jarc. In a previous post I introduced tests with different IEEE 1588 / PTPv2 configurations where the PTP accuracy of the slave device was measured for each test case. The test cases performed were as follows: A direct link between GM and Slave as a baseline reference accuracy measurement. A 100 Mbit/s Boundary Clock […]