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From: edward@TWG.COM ("Edward C. Bennett")
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Subject: Re:  General help-info
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Date: 2 Jun 91 18:03:13 GMT
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>- I need to syncronize over 500 machine - almostly all
>  exclusively Suns (490's, 330's and SparcStations at 4.1 & 4.1.1). 
>  Since we also have International offices (London, Tokyo etc),

This strikes me as interesting...Suppose a company has offices on
several continents and they want to synchronize their clocks. Do
they really need to peer with each other? Why shouldn't the European
office peer with a Stratum 1 server in Europe, Japanese office to
a server in Japan, etc.?

Look at it like this, the shortwave radio signals that the Stratum 1's
listen to is global, in effect an international network. Once the
signals are received and put on a wire it is redundant to send them
back around the world. Tokyo doesn't need to peer with New York on a
wire because WWV does it for them through the air.

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Edward C. Bennett - The other WIN/MHS & MMDF guy	edward@twg.com
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