[time-nuts] Cloudflare

[Bob Bownes]

Most of the good data centers I’ve used either offer a connection to a stratum 1 server or are more than happy to put a antenna on the roof. Many offer microwave as a third redundant circuit path, which requires an antenna. All for a price, of course. 

When I worked for an ILEC, many moons ago, we had two and a half floors at 60 Hudson St. Our stratum 1 antenna was literally glued to a window. Next to a 10GHz dish. :)

My hotel in Toronto two weeks ago overlooked a building that was clearly someone’s data center, based on the 6 generators, massive AC, numerous microwave links, and yes, GPS bullet antennas, covering the roof. 

Bob

> On Jun 21, 2019, at 22:01, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> The hardware is cheap.  The software is free.  The skills to deploy are
> widely available.  But...
> 
> A cable run from your rack in the middle of the datacenter, through to the
> roof, is either impossible or thousands of dollars and weeks of planning.
> 
> Data centers can run wires within the building for exorbitant costs, asking
> them to run one to the exterior is, well, impossible.
> 
> -- 
> Sanjeev Gupta
> +65 98551208     http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 6:06 AM Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Given the relatively low cost of a GPS based “Stratum 1” NTP, it’s not
>> real clear
>> why (at the end of the paper) they go off and “exchange emails
>> individually with the
>> organizations that run stratum 1 servers, as well as negotiate permission
>> to use them.”
>> to source the root time for the system. I would have thought that some
>> sort of combo
>> of on site and off site sources would be at the “top of the tree”.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>> On Jun 21, 2019, at 2:20 PM, Marco Davids via time-nuts <
>> time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Opinions, anyone?
>>> 
>>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-time/amp/
>>> 
>>> ("Introducing time.cloudflare.com")
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Marco
>>> 
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