One application is advanced network diagnostics eg cards like this: https://www.endace.com/endace-dag-high-speed-packet-capture-cards.html
So for a 40 GbE card, time-stamping 1 kilobyte packets demands sub-microsecond accuracy, if you want to compare at different points in your network. Cheers Michael On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Bob Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing I've never really understood is who actually uses the high-quality > 1PPS output from a GPSDO. I have spent a lot of time, effort, and money on > developing my GPSDO without a whole of thought to the user base. It was just > a quest for the best result I could obtain with a particular technology. The > frequency standard users was a no brainer. Everyone who wants a frequency > standard eventually understands they need to get a GPSDO, or an Rb, or a Cs. > And that's all I thought I had: a good frequency standard. And then Tom > prodded me a bit and showed me the shortcomings of what I was doing, and I > did something about it. So, if an NTP user can get his time fix directly > from a noisy receiver, who actually needs a time-accurate, low jitter 1PPS > pulse? > Bob - AE6RV > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > AE6RV.com > > GFS GPSDO list: > groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GFS-GPSDOs/info > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
