Time Servers
Master Clocks and Timing Solutions
Precision timing is critical for defense, commercial industries, and powering essential network operations.
Safran offers network time servers and solutions for precise synchronization, security, compliance, and adherence to resilient timing best practices.
Whenever accuracy, safety, security and reliability are critical, Safran leads the way.
Why You Need An NTP Time Server
Time accuracy is paramount, and many network events, from process control to authentication, hinge on precise timing. Reliable timestamps and log files are crucial for billing systems, diagnostics, forensics, databases, and analysis. However, the internal clocks of electronic devices are often imprecise, drifting significantly over time. The solution is to employ network time synchronization.
Implementing network time synchronization is straightforward, relying on a designated NTPNTP, or Network Time Protocol, is a widely used networking protocol that enables computers and devices to synchronize their system clocks with a reference time source. It ensures accurate timekeeping in computer networks by allowing devices to obtain precise time information from NTP servers, which are typically synchronized to highly accurate atomic clocks. NTP is essential for various applications and services that rely on synchronized time, such as network security, authentication, and data logging. time server as the master clock and reference point. The choice of time server influences the security, reliability, accuracy, and manageability of the network time application, making it a critical decision for efficient network operations.
White Rabbit: Sub-Nanosecond Timing
White Rabbit is a collaborative project including CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and other partners from universities and industry to develop a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and sub-nanosecond accuracy time transfer.
