Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold Next in the series on What is in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588 is slave port monitoring, also known as slave event monitoring. Sometimes it is not enough to transfer time accurately from a PTP … [Continue reading]
PTP Timescale (and what the heck is Arb time?)
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold Most application which use PTP to distribute time, don’t actually need standard time, as understood by national laboratories. All that is needed is for the clocks in a network to have … [Continue reading]
What’s in the IEEE 1588 revision: Interdomain interactions
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold The next installment in what's in the revision of IEEE 1588 discusses PTP domains Before we get started. A quick review on domains. Every PTP message contains a domain number. A PTP … [Continue reading]
PTP Telecom Profile in Power Grids
Five Minute Facts About Packet TimingBy 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 … [Continue reading]
What’s in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588: Mixed Multicast Unicast Operation
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold The next installment in what's in the revision of IEEE 1588 discusses mixed multicast-unicast operation. In a previous post I described the virtues of mixed multicast-unicast operation in PTP. … [Continue reading]
HSR and PRP: redundant Layer 2 networks
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold If are looking into network technologies for power substations, or industrial automation you may run across HSR and/or PRP. So here is the five-minute version of what these things are. … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]