Judah Levine 2008 Metrologia 45 S12 doi:10.1088/0026-1394/45/6/S03
Judah Levine
Show affiliationsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates 22 network time servers at various locations. These servers respond to requests for time in a number of different formats and provide time stamps that are directly traceable to the NIST atomic clock ensemble in Boulder. The link between the servers at locations outside of the NIST Boulder Laboratories and the atomic clock ensemble is provided by the Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS) system, which has a direct connection to the clock ensemble and which transmits time information over dial-up telephone lines with a two-way protocol to measure the transmission delay. I will discuss improvements to the ACTS servers and to the time servers themselves. These improvements have resulted in an improvement of almost an order of magnitude in the performance of the system.
Issue 6 (December 2008)
Received 25 June 2008
Published 5 December 2008
Judah Levine 2008 Metrologia 45 S12
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