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Selecting stratum 1 source

After our company decided to maintain UTC (universal coordinated time) synchronised time ourselves, I was selected to prepare foundation of new architecture with some NtpServer products, from which my bosses could choose the best option.

After preparing the core and selecting main computers, which would become stratum 1 servers I was blasted by the amount of companies, which provide time synchronisation services and Time server products.

List of servers worth mentioning

• galleon ntp server
  
• SR Series GPS from timetools
  
• symmetricom syncserver
  
• Rack NtpServer from GpsNtp
  
• Network time server from spectracom
  
• ES-101 found on puregizmo.com

Requirements for new time servers
As our company can be labeled as medium-sized, my bosses wanted to buy some high quality server, while keeping cost at minimum

Time server should follow these specifically chosen requirements, which my bosses wanted to embed:

• atomic cesium standards
  
• mountable into racks (as we have some slots open)
  
• as easy as possible, so we don't need huge documentations
  
• external antenna (to have the most exact time source you have to place the antenna outside)
  
• helpful support
  
• 2 year warranty
  
• being able to send SNMP traps (this was optional)]
  
• support for windows (I cannot emphasize this strong enough!)

After very long night in front of my computer and reading tons of information about all those servers I was attracted to rack ntpserver from Gps Ntp.

Because of these main factors we decided to go with a server from GpsNtp

• Their support is wonderful, responded within 1 hour
  
• all requirements were fulfilled from top to bottom
  
• sites have no ads, text is readable, which I enjoyed very much
  
• even the optional requirement was fulfilled (they provide a sheet for all those snmp trap messages)
  
• no one sells time servers for such a low price
  
• one of our customers provided very positive feedback for GPS NTP
  
• all gps ntp servers are fully scaled with Web Server for easy status monitoring
  
• fully featured stratum source for Windows machines

So this is it, i hope this small writeup will be helpful

excerpt from rack ntpserver description:

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For those of you who didn't see my thread asking whether anyone had heard about the release of Chrome OS or who did not see the post made by Belatucadrus saying that it had been.
I just found this on the BBC website. So it looks like it has been released but will only work on solid state hard drives.

BBC News | Technology | Chrome OS released

Obviously, it's still in its early development stages but, what's the point of it?
No desktop applications. Just a web browser.

Your documents will be stored on Google's servers.

What if you have no internet for a couple of days because your ISP is doing one of them "upgrading the lines" things they do or for whatever reason.

And more importantly, will those using a limited bandwidth have to get a less-restricted package from their ISP to be able to use this operating system? I know it's not downloading as such but in some degrees, is just like streaming videos from Youtube.

So far, the only good that I can see this operating system is bringing to anyone is that it's capable of booting in seven seconds.

Anyone else agree?

I expected more from Google... Is this their Vista period, only faster?

Every phone call, email and internet click stored by 'state spying' databases
http://www.telegraph...-databases.html

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