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Synchronization of computer networks is something that many administrators take for granted. Dedicated network time servers can receive a time source and distribute it amongst a network, accurately, securely and precisely.<\/p>\n

However, accurate time synchronization<\/a> is only made possible thanks the time protocol NTP<\/strong> \u2013 Network Time Protocol.<\/p>\n

NTP was developed when the internet was still in its infancy and Professor David Mills<\/a> and his team from Delaware University were trying to synchronise the time on a network of a few machines. They developed the very earliest rendition of NTP which has continued to be developed to this very day, nearly thirty years after its first inception.<\/p>\n

NTP was not then, and is not now, the only time synchronisation software, there are other applications and protocol that do a similar task but NTP is the most widely used (by far with over 98% of time synchronisation applications using it). It is also packaged with most modern operating systems with a version of NTP (usually SNTP \u2013 a simplified version) installed on the latest Windows 7 operating system.<\/p>\n

NTP has played an important part in creating the internet we know and love today. Many online applications and tasks would not be possible without accurate time synchronization and NTP.<\/p>\n

Online trading, internet auctions, banking and debugging of networks all rely on accurate time synchronisation. Even sending an email requires time synchronisation with email server – otherwise computers would not be able to handle emails coming from unsynchronised machines as they may arrive before they were sent.<\/p>\n

NTP is a free software protocol and is available online from NTP.org <\/a>However, most computer networks that require secure and accurate time mostly use dedicated NTP servers<\/a> that operate external to the network and firewall obtaining the time from atomic clock signals ensuring millisecond accuracy with the world\u2019s global timescale UTC<\/a> (Coordinated Universal Time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Synchronization of computer networks is something that many administrators take for granted. Dedicated network time servers can receive a time source and distribute it amongst a network, accurately, securely and precisely. However, accurate time synchronization is only made possible thanks the time protocol NTP \u2013 Network Time Protocol. NTP was developed when the internet was…<\/p>\n

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