Lee Sailer wrote:
First, thanks to everybody for replying. However, my original question
was not as clear as it could have been. Let me continue...
My company has 6 GPS time sources at various worldwide locations. They
are stratum 1.
Every once in awhile, one or the other of them has a harddware problem.
As a result, that one will drift a little. That is, its offset will
be 1, 2, or more seconds different from the other five. When we detect
this, we replce the hardware as a matter of course.
Now, it seems to me that a stratum 2 server will never have this
problem. It gets time from several places, and uses the various
algorithms to try to make sense. The stratum 1 gets time from a bunch
of satellites, and then if it screws up the calculation or has some
sort of hardware glitch, then it is screwed.
Therefore, I conclude:
1. If everything is working, stratum 1 is better than stratum 2.
2. If the stratum 1 hardware is suffering a slow degradation
breakdown, then the stratum 2 will be better.
Whaddya think 8-)
It's a good question, but no it isn't. If you are using stratum 1 or any
other stratum servers then you need to use 4-5 of them. If your system
sees that one of them is drifting away from the rest of the group it
will be dropped from consideration as a candidate since the other
servers are still agreed on the expected value and it's falls out of the
delta required for consideration. The NTP algorithms are quite punative
of this. It doesn't matter what the stratum is here. The stratum 1
servers will provide better accuracy in general though network distance
and congestion can be a major factor.
Danny
lee
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