DockStar status?

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 13:03 -0500, Brett Wynkoop wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:47:27 -0700
> Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Nothing designed for consumers / end-users.  We make precision timing
> > gear that shows up in server rooms at ISPs, in cell towers, flying on
> > satellites, in the metrology laboratories of various nations, that
> > sort of thing.  If you need a stable time source that drifts no more
> > than a few nanoseconds within a 24 hour period, or need to serve
> > hundreds of thousands of NTP and PTP packets per second, we've got
> > you covered.
> > 
> 
> Clock-in-a-box!  Way cool.  Do some of these devices have wwvb or gps
> receivers?  
> 
> In the past I have been tasked with getting clock sources for clients,
> and you never know when that might be the case again.
> 
> -Brett
> 

They virtually all have gps/gnss receivers.  A few of them are at the
other end of that pipeline -- they have an ensemble of atomic clocks and
act as the ground stations generating the timing signals that eventually
propagate over RF.

-- Ian