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Why is IEEE 1588 so accurate?

September 14, 2013 by Douglas Arnold 34 Comments

Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold Why is IEEE 1588 so accurate? Two words: Hardware timestamping. That’s it, really! Let me explain. The Precision Time Protocol, PTP, defined by IEEE 1588-2008 works by exchanging messages between master clocks and slave clocks.

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