Bob, The hardware is cheap. The software is free. The skills to deploy are widely available. But...
A cable run from your rack in the middle of the datacenter, through to the roof, is either impossible or thousands of dollars and weeks of planning. Data centers can run wires within the building for exorbitant costs, asking them to run one to the exterior is, well, impossible. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 6:06 AM Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Given the relatively low cost of a GPS based “Stratum 1” NTP, it’s not > real clear > why (at the end of the paper) they go off and “exchange emails > individually with the > organizations that run stratum 1 servers, as well as negotiate permission > to use them.” > to source the root time for the system. I would have thought that some > sort of combo > of on site and off site sources would be at the “top of the tree”. > > Bob > > > On Jun 21, 2019, at 2:20 PM, Marco Davids via time-nuts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Opinions, anyone? > > > > https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-time/amp/ > > > > ("Introducing time.cloudflare.com") > > > > -- > > Marco > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
