I'm kind of curious about the actual accuracy of NTP. When I try to research the topic I hear stuff like "stratum 1 is fractions of a millisecond and stratum 2 is within 100ms" and then I see people ...

Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

The average user may not notice, but the Global Positioning System (GPS) is more reliable today than it was several years ago. Widely used by the military, first responders, surveyors and even ...

Over the years, there have been several memory and display technologies that served a particular niche for a while, only to be replaced and forgotten when a more suitable technology came along. One of ...

The Symmetricom XLi Grandmaster clock provides time and frequency synchronization over Ethernet networks. The clock is GPS-derived and uses the IEEE 1588 PTP. One good way to provide accurate time and ...