Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...

Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), has passed away aged 85. He created NTP in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and network, a critical step ...

Meta plans to deploy a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), to keep every server in its data centers on the same time. The company said that it had successfully piloted PTP at ...

Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encrypted communications, or tamper with Bitcoin transactions, computer ...

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 ...