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What’s in the 2019 edition of IEEE 1588: Profile isolation

July 31, 2019 by Douglas Arnold 2 Comments

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 has  the same structure regardless of which PTP […]

Filed Under: IEEE 1588 Tagged With: IEEE 1588, PTP, PTP profile

MIFID II Compliance: The Meinberg FAQ

July 26, 2016 by Heiko Gerstung 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: IEEE 1588, Industry Applications, NTP Tagged With: Finance, IEEE 1588, LANTIME, MiFID II, ntp, PTP

End-to-End Versus Peer-to-Peer

September 19, 2013 by Douglas Arnold 46 Comments

Five Minute Facts About Packet Timing By Doug Arnold.   Which delay measurement mechanism is best for deploying IEEE 1588?  Since I’m an engineer, the answer is, of course, it depends.  The short answer is that the peer-to-peer delay measurement  mechanism is best in an engineered network, where all switches (and routers if there are […]

Filed Under: IEEE 1588 Tagged With: IEEE 1588, Peer-delay, PTP

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.

Filed Under: IEEE 1588 Tagged With: Hardware Timestamp, IEEE 1588, PTP

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