[time-nuts] Discipline an oscillator with NTP?

michael taylor mctylr at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 18:39:10 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jason Rabel
<jason at extremeoverclocking.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking (dangerous I know)... Has anyone attempted to build a stand-alone oscillator that is disciplined via NTP?

I believe the Symmetricom NTP servers do this, whether or not they
have external access to the oscillator or not I'm not sure. I know
that even their most basic model has OCXO and/or Rubidium upgrade
options. [1] The SyncServer S100 can be disciplined by either NTP via
networking or GPS.

I think all NTP server appliances have this functionality by their
nature, whether or not the oscillator is of particular high quality
(low noise) or not. Many of the low-end ones likely just use a
standard oscillator "in a can" [2] that the embedded processor uses.

[1] <http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ntp-servers/ntp-network-appliances/SyncServer-S100/>
[2] such as <http://www.foxonline.com/thru_hole_oscillators.htm>




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