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Why is the mean path delay so high (hundreds of microseconds)?
Why is the mean path delay so high (hundreds of microseconds)?
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March 25, 2022
The Precision Time service is provided over Equinix Fabric, which is a "non-PTP aware" network. You might see a mean path delay in the order of microseconds or milliseconds (in certain metros). However, both PTP and NTP account for the mean-path delay and control the synchronization precisely.