{"id":905,"date":"2009-01-08T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/?p=905"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:39:19","slug":"ntp-server-running-a-network-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/ntp-server-running-a-network-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NTP Server running a network (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Organising Strata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stratum levels describe the distance between a device and the reference clock. For instance an atomic clock based in a physics laboratory or GPS satellite is a stratum 0 device. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\">stratum 1<\/a> device is a time server that receives time from a stratum 0 device so any dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/categories\/ntp-server.html\">NTP server<\/a> is stratum 1. Devices that receive the time from the time server such as computers and routers are stratum 2 devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ntp.org\">NTP<\/a> can support up to 16 stratum levels and although there is a drop-off in accuracy the further away you go stratum levels are designed to allow huge networks to all receive a time from a single NTP server without causing network congestion or a blockage in the bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>When using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomic-clock.galleon.eu.com\/\">NTP server <\/a>it is important to not overload the device with time requests so the network should be divided with a select number of machines taking requests from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntp-time-server.com\">NTP server<\/a> (the NTP server manufacturer can recommend the number of requests it can handle). These stratum 2 devices can ten be used as time references for other devices (which become stratum 3 devices) on very large networks these can then be used as time references themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organising Strata Stratum levels describe the distance between a device and the reference clock. For instance an atomic clock based in a physics laboratory or GPS satellite is a stratum 0 device. 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