[GTALUG] NTP's Fate Hinges On 'Father Time' - InformationWeek

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:36:10AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Absolutely. At the solar plant I audited the other week, I was amused to
> see that the great big huge expensive grid protection and control box
> was controlled via GPS sync. It's the cheapest way to maintain grid
> frequency at the far end of the grid. And I mean /far/; 5 hours west of
> Thunder Bay …
> 
> > My finance client's use ptp not ntp.
> 
> Is PTP particularly hard to use? It looks like an ISO standard, so will
> likely be fiddly but complete.

IEEE 1588 I believe.  No idea if there is an ISO standard for it.

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Len Sorensen