Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-14 Thread Ruslan Nabioullin
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Thomas Laus wrote: > On 2018-04-04, Maria Iano wrote: > > I'm purchasing ntp appliances to put into three datacenters. Does it make > > sense to purchase two that use GPS and two that use WWVB, and configure > > them as peers? > The USA Bureau of Time Standards h

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-13 Thread Steve Sullivan
p.org] On Behalf Of Steven Sommars > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 7:10 AM > To: lau...@acm.org > Cc: questions@lists.ntp.org > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense? > > Search for: CDMA shutdown > > CDMA NTP servers lack an automated leap second mechanism, a

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-13 Thread Thomas Laus
On 8/13/18 10:09 AM, Steven Sommars wrote: > Search for:   CDMA shutdown > > CDMA NTP servers lack an automated leap second mechanism, as far as I > can tell. > My CDMA experience dealt with an Endrun Tempus LX receiver only. It received and used the leap second information that was sent along wi

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-13 Thread Steven Sommars
Search for: CDMA shutdown CDMA NTP servers lack an automated leap second mechanism, as far as I can tell. On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Thomas Laus wrote: > On 2018-04-04, Maria Iano wrote: > > I'm purchasing ntp appliances to put into three datacenters. Does it > make sense to purchase t

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread Thomas Laus
On 2018-04-04, Maria Iano wrote: > I'm purchasing ntp appliances to put into three datacenters. Does it make > sense to purchase two that use GPS and two that use WWVB, and configure them > as peers? The USA Bureau of Time Standards has a link for timing receiver vendors: https://www.nist.gov/pm

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
William Unruh wrote: On 2018-04-05, Terje Mathisen wrote: I've designed similar setups a couple of times: Since we're located in Europe my backup was the German radio transmitter since that one uses spread spectrum modulation of the carrier, enabling 10-15 us precision. That is about 2 miles

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
David Taylor wrote: On 04/04/2018 20:47, Maria Iano wrote: Thanks William, I will go with GPS. Maria That's a good choice. These boxes are low-cost (but not yet multiple GNSS systems - check with the vendor), and have good hold-over in the event of GPS failure: http://www.leobodnar.com/shop

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread David Taylor
On 04/04/2018 20:47, Maria Iano wrote: Thanks William, I will go with GPS. Maria That's a good choice. These boxes are low-cost (but not yet multiple GNSS systems - check with the vendor), and have good hold-over in the event of GPS failure: http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_pa

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread William Unruh
On 2018-04-04, Maria Iano wrote: > I'm purchasing ntp appliances to put into three datacenters. Does it make > sense to purchase two that use GPS and two that use WWVB, and configure them > as peers? Well, WWVB is about a million times less accurate than GPS (even with a cheap GPS it is well ov

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread William Unruh
On 2018-04-05, Terje Mathisen wrote: > Maria Iano wrote: >> Thanks for your reply, David. Accuracy to within milliseconds is fine >> for us. We currently have four old GPS appliances in four data >> centers that we are replacing, and my thought is that some vendor >> diversity would be good. >> >>

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
Maria Iano wrote: Thanks for your reply, David. Accuracy to within milliseconds is fine for us. We currently have four old GPS appliances in four data centers that we are replacing, and my thought is that some vendor diversity would be good. We are only staying in two of those data centers, so t

Re: [ntp:questions] does this make sense?

2018-08-06 Thread David Taylor
On 04/04/2018 17:29, Maria Iano wrote: I'm purchasing ntp appliances to put into three datacenters. Does it make sense to purchase two that use GPS and two that use WWVB, and configure them as peers? Thanks, Maria Probably, yes, although these days I would suggest that GPS (including GLONASS