Interesting, I did wonder if they had OCXO or a TCXO in it, but I'm guessing after the update and/or reboot the GPS time would've overridden that.
On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 at 12:33, Scott McInness <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the datasheet there is/was a PTP grandmaster upgrade option, > as well as a rubidium or OCXO oscillator upgrades (TCXO standard), so it’s > possible that they already had PTP functionality. > > http://syncworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/S300-Data-Sheet.pdf > > > > *From:* AusNOG <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Karl von > Muller > *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 July 2026 11:23 AM > *To:* Narelle Clark <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Ausnog <[email protected]>; Greg Price <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Telstra outage? > > > > Would PTP be a better solution for someone like Telstra who heavily relies > on very accurate time? > > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 19:55, Narelle Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > NTP is observably fundamentally flawed. It's good, but drifts and has > issues. > > > > Here is a talk given to IAA members by an academic who has been measuring > it for 20yrs: https://internet.asn.au/events/online_convergent_event_2/ > > > > The in person version had us all riveted. > > Narelle > [email protected] > > > > On Tue, 14 July 2026, 7:23 pm Ross Wheeler, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Mark Smith wrote: > > > So it seems a "nice to have" upstream NTP service that wasn't accurate > > and people didn't really care about became a need to be accurate on a > > network access device. > > This might sound conceited but I've never trusted "upstream" anythings > because I don't know how (or IF) they give a damn, unfortunately often > it's "we don't". > > If it's technically and financially PRACTICAL for me to do it in-house, I > do. Always have. Because *I* care about me and I know very few others do. > > R. > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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