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WiFi Clocks: The evolution of synchronized time display

In the past, maintaining synchronized time across an organization or industrial facility was a difficult task. Organizations often relied on manual clocks or standalone systems that needed to be reset regularly to keep accurate time. With advancements in technology, these methods became outdated. Two of the clocks used in the past were mechanical c...

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Safran SecureSync: A Vital Tool for Ensuring Public Safety in a Connected World

In today's interconnected world, public safety depends on reliable and secure communication, coordination, and operational precision. From emergency response teams to critical infrastructure operators, organizations must rely on systems that are both secure and accurate. Safran's SecureSync is a powerful solution designed to meet these needs, offer...

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Synchronized Clocks – What System is Best for my Organization

Virtually every enterprise can benefit from synchronized time displays, clocks that all display the same correct time. But which system is best for your organization? There are many options to pick from, depending on your industry and the number of displays required, but which system is best for your organization? Large Environments In large enviro...

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2024 Year in Review

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on the crucial role of precise timing in modern systems and operations. This year, we've explored how accurate time synchronization drives efficiency, reliability, and security across networks and infrastructure. To wrap up the year, we've rounded up five key blog posts that highlight the importance of pre...

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Why Legally Traceable Time is Crucial for Modern Business and Technology

In today's connected world, precise and legally traceable time is crucial across industries like telecommunications, finance, aerospace, and cybersecurity. Legally traceable time ensures accurate, verifiable, and defensible time records, vital for compliance, security, and efficiency. Companies like Safran and Hoptroff lead in high-precision time s...

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Unlocking the Potential of Synchronized Clock Systems in Hospitals

In the fast-paced world of healthcare, every second counts. From managing patient appointments to coordinating emergency responses, precise timing is crucial for efficient hospital operations. This is where synchronized clock systems come into play. Installing a synchronized clock system in a hospital can offer a multitude of benefits that enhance ...

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Precision time protocol built for Zero Trust Architecture

In this article: There are some security concerns with NTP because it uses a stateless protocol for transport and is not authenticated. Also, there have been some incidents of denial of service attacks against NTP servers making them temporarily unavailable to supply time information.The rise of the cashless trend underscores the necessity for a ro...

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Accurate and Precise Time Synchronization

Everyone involved in the finance sector rely on a resilient digital ecosystem, with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) coming into effect in the US shortly, has brought a renewed urgency to the conversation. Organizations must be able to respond and recover from all types of ICT related disruptions and threats. One important lesson is ac...

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5 fintech trends you should be watching in 2023

In the fast-paced world of global financial services, gaining competitive advantage is a synonym to staying ahead of the curve. With banks, stock exchanges, credit institutions, investment firms still struggling in their push for innovation, fintech startups are sprouting everywhere, deploying groundbreaking technology, and questioning traditional ...

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Hoptroff Time Sync for Power Substations

The Need For Substation Time Sync Substations require time sync for many measurement applications. The most demanding is I-V sensing both sides of a transformer, requiring 4800 Hz samples to be timestamped ideally with 250ns local granularity (IEC Class A), but others are equally important, such as comparing synchrophasor measurements over transmis...

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Synchronized Digital Clocks: Advantages and Considerations

When it comes to choosing clocks for your facility, you have a choice between digital or analog displays. Both styles have their merits, so it's important to consider your needs and priorities. Here's a look at some key characteristics of digital clocks, that can help you decide what to use. Easier to Read Digital clocks are super easy to read at a...

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Synchronizing Time in a System of Systems (SoS) in the Process Control Industry

In the process control industry, precise time synchronization is essential for ensuring coordinated operations, reliable data acquisition, and efficient control of interconnected systems. The Safran SecureSync time server is a critical solution that addresses the challenges of synchronizing system of systems (SoS) within this industry. By providing...

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Traceable Time Keeps Getting Easier

Accurate, traceable time is needed for many different applications. Whether it's meeting banking regulations, providing verifiable timestamps on medical records, providing a common sync reference for security and access control systems, or even ensuring the performance of basic distributed network operations, accurate, traceable time is needed. How...

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10 Reasons Why Time is Critical for Trading Systems

Time synchronization is crucial in financial trading systems for several reasons. Here are the top 10: 1. Order Execution Time synchronization ensures that order execution occurs accurately and consistently across different trading platforms. It allows traders to enter and execute orders at the intended time, avoiding discrepancies or delays that c...

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CYBERSECURITY: Hardening Security On Your SecureSync®/NetClock 9483

Customers frequently seek information and recommendations from Safran about hardening security, including general guidelines about available network security features, jamming and spoofing deterrence, bug fixes, and networking-related issues.Sometimes they're in search of specific practices for time servers and clients. Sometimes, because SecureSyn...

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Unparalleled Efficiency At Scale With SecureSync In Data Operations

Introduction In the era of big data and distributed systems, achieving efficiency at scale is crucial for data operators. The Safran SecureSync emerges as a game-changing solution, providing unparalleled efficiency and reliability in time synchronization for data operations. We will explore the technical details behind the SecureSync and demonstrat...

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Mitigating an NTP Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

Who Should Read This White Paper? Network and System EngineersNetwork and System ArchitectsNetwork and System AdministratorsDirectors/Managers of IT InfrastructureCTOs By Pritam Kandel Introduction Network time service is not something many businesses think about as a key component of their critical infrastructures. In fact, it is often overlo...

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Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Synchronized Clock FAQs

What is NTP?

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol that provides a reliable way of transmitting and receiving the time over TCP/IP networks. It has become the de facto standard for synchronizing Internet computers and other networked devices to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), which is accomplished by having these devices reference a common time source – i.e., an atomic clock or a network time server (a.k.a. an “NTP server”). (NTP is defined in IETF RFC 1305.)

NTP uses port 123, which must be opened on a firewall or router to ensure proper communication with the NTP server.

What is SNTP?

Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) is a simplified version of NTP, which is used in cases where a full implementation of NTP is not required. Because SNTP uses the same packet format as NTP, SNTP clients can utilize NTP servers. (SNTP is defined in RFCs 1361,2030 & 4330.)

SNTP is implemented on the PoE clock. By default, SNTP time synchronization is performed once per hour, which keeps the displayed time within 200 ms of actual time. (For more information on how to configure your clock for an SNTP server see How do I configure my PoE clock for an SNTP Time Server? below)

What is International Atomic Time?

International Atomic Time is an international time standard derived from 200 atomic clocks in 50 national laboratories from around the world. The readings from these clocks are used to form the standard for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which governs global time-keeping.

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Synchronize Critical Systems and Operations to Coordinate Emergency Efforts with Legally Traceable Time

Spectracom's NetClock 9483 offers a versatile modular design that's fully NENA compliant and tailored especially for Emergency Communication Center applications. And now it has a new Web User Interface that's easier to use and provides intuitive status monitoring with simple set-up.

A key feature of the 9483 is its capability of time-synchronizing multiple separate networks. The modular design provides expansion card slots, one of which is the 3-network port GigE option card providing synchronization for up to (4) networks simultaneously. Cards can be added with the initial order, or in the future as system requirements change and evolve.

NetClock 9483 features include:

  • Synchronizes 9-1-1 systems, computer networks, CAD, radio consoles, VoIP, voice and video recorders, ANI/ALI, display clocks
  • Precision GPS time reference with OCXO oscillator for GPS back-up
  • Multi-network port card for separate, isolated networks
  • GLONASS receiver option improves signal acquisition in marginal GPS signal areas, reduces or eliminates signal interference and jamming, provides redundancy for the GPS system
  • Optional feature of Dual- Redundant (AC/DC) power
  • Optional T1/E1 timing card
  • 5 year warranty

Thanks to Spectracom for the article. 

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Synchronizing Time Using Presentense

PresenTense offers you an alternative to the limited functionality of synchronizing with Microsoft W32Time program. PresenTense, will not only synchronize all of the Windows PCs on the network, but also provides alert notification and a audit trail which is  not available from the Microsoft W32Time (Windows Time Service). PresenTense Client and Server software is a has Graphical User Interface (GUI) based program that can provide a primary and back-up time reference for redundancy.

PresenTense Client software synchronizes the PCs to the Time Server and/or another PC on the network that is running the Server software. If the PC can’t reach its Time reference, it can email an alert notification that it can’t be synchronized. PresenTense LAN Time Analyzer is a network time synchronization administrative tool that monitors the time accuracy of all PCs on the network. If a PC exceeds a user-defined accuracy specification, this program can run any exe-based program and can also open a message on the PC’s monitor, alerting to a PC with an error higher than expected and desired

Presentense LAN Time Analyzer

The PresenTense NTP Auditor program provides an audit trail of the PC’s time by comparing the PC’s time to up to three different NTP Time references. This program can provide a continuous print-out for a hard-copy proof that each PC was synchronized at any given moment in time. It also logs this information in a text file sorted automatically by month and day. The time is sampled at set intervals and the error of the PC’s time compared to the reference NTP Time Servers is permanently captured. If the time of the PC is manually set by someone at any time between the scheduled samples, the program automatically triggers an unscheduled sample to permanently log how far off from UTC the PC was manually set and when the event occurred. Once the PC is resynchronized or manually set again, another unscheduled sample occurs again and the time of this occurrence is logged.

Presentense NTP Auditor

If you would like to try Presentense for your network you can obtain a free 30 day evaluation trail by contacting us at Telnet Networks at 800-561-4019. You can download you 30 day free trail here

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