Transparent clock for precision timing distribution
US8718482B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 9, 2010 |
| Grant date | May 6, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04J3/0667
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One or more devices of a network having asymmetric delay are configured to participate in time synchronization protocol sessions in which a client device synchronizes its local clock to a master device. In one example, a system includes an optical line terminal configured to receive a time synchronization protocol packet from a grandmaster clock and an optical network unit (ONU) configured to calculate a residence time of the time synchronization protocol packet, encode the residence time into the packet, and to forward the packet to a client device. Moreover, the system may participate in a plurality of time synchronization protocol sessions with a plurality of client devices, such that the client devices become synchronized in frequency and phase.
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