David Mills, who created the tool that keeps the internet’s clocks synchronized, has died at 85. The Oakland-born man invented and spent decades upgrading Network Time Protocol, a system that, to this ...

More than a decade ago, European researchers invented highly accurate network time distribution protocols for CERN. They are now adopted by industries including financial services. Accuracy in the ...

He developed and implemented the protocol that synchronizes the digital clocks nestled within billions of networked devices. By Clay Risen David L. Mills, an internet pioneer who developed and, for ...

ADVA has released new software that extends its Oscilloquartz timing assurance technology to synchronization networks using Network Time Protocol (NTP). ADVA’s Ensemble Sync Director management system ...

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The need for more accurate time synchronization within a distributed system. The challenges of using synchronized time provided by the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in application software and the ...