perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Shawn McKee <>]

Hi Everyone,

I would second (or third) the enhancement to support PTP.  We just got our PTP antenna installed for AGLT2 a few weeks ago.  We have PTP capable Dell switches using PTP to hold times.

My challenge is to get our perfSONAR instances to use it.

Shawn

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 6:38 AM Tim Chown <> wrote:

> On 14 Nov 2022, at 15:03, Szymon Trocha <> wrote:
>
> Hi Raul,
>
> W dniu 10.11.2022 o 19:35, Raul Lopes (via perfsonar-user Mailing List) pisze:
>> Dear perfsonar team,
>>
>> Is PTP supported in perfSONAR?
>>
> I addition to what Ed replied - I'm wondering about the rationale behind your question. Is PTP configured and used in JISC? Is it going to be your replacement of NTP?
>
> (https://docs.perfsonar.net/FAQ.html#q-does-perfsonar-support-ptp)

No, at this stage there’s no PTP service on Janet.  But other NRENs are starting to offer one, and we’re in the process of looking at use cases.  One may well be more accurate OWD measurements.

One thing the perfSONAr community could do, or a researcher in it, is look at the existing latency measurements each way between measurement points and see how they correlate, and whether there is clock drift.  My feeling is that mostly in R&E networks there’s ~1ms accuracy based on existing NTP driven timing.

The current perfSONAr docs say PTP is not supported due to the cost of deploying it.  I think that has changed.

Tim--
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