Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold Every implementation of PTP includes some information about the state and performance of the device. So in principle a monitoring node could gather all the data and determine the health … [Continue reading]
Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing Next in the series on What is in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588 is profile isolation. And while we are looking at that we will take a peak at the PTP common message header, the part of PTP message which … [Continue reading]
Five Minute Facts About Packet TimingBy 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 … [Continue reading]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]