Full speedAhead

Nowadays, the more complex the technology developed in our time bases, the easier we have made it to implement and use with a view to customer satisfaction. Connection to communication networks not only allows the time to be transmitted to digital or analogue industrial clocks but also enables all the machines connected to the same networks, however far apart, to be synchronized. With the NTP (Network Time Protocol) and, soon, the PTP (Precision Time Protocol, IEEE 1588), propagation time over the Ethernet networks is of no consequence. Remote control and monitoring for diagnostic and configuration purposes greatly increase the availability rate of equipment. The use of protocols such as SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure Sockets) or TLS (Transport Layer Security, formerly SSL) provide the user with extra comfort and security.In present-day organizations, time synchronization should no longer be considered a source of expenditure. One the contrary, it is well worth taking into account since it can prove a simple, effective way of saving money. 3