[189300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric S. Raymond)
Sun May 15 13:06:08 2016
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 13:05:34 -0400
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
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Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>:
> The upshot is that there are many real-world situations where
> expensive clock discipline is needed. But IT isn't, I don't think,
> one of them, with the exception of private SONET networks (fast
> disappearing in the face of metro Ethernet).
Thank you, that was very interesting information. I'm not used to thinking
of IT as a relatively low-challenge environment!
You're implicitly suggesting there might be a technical case for
replacing these T1/T3 trunks with some kind of VOIP provisioning less
dependent on accurate time synch. Do you think that's true?
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
