ALBEDO TELECOM announces the release of a new software for the AT-2048 and AT.One E1, T1 and Datacom handheld analyzers.

The accuracy of a watch depends on the application. Anyone who wants to catch a train has to have an eye on the minutes. In competitive sport, a hundredth of a second can be decisive and a packaging machine may need microsecond accuracy.

This paper reviews techniques of frequency and phase distribution by means of packet networks that require new synchronization architectures. PTP is the key technology for those applications requiring an accuracy of micrfoseconds.