Researchers involved with Moonv6, the world’s largest native IPv6 test bed, have demonstrated that the Network Time Protocol runs over IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), has passed away aged 85. He created NTP in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and network, a critical step ...

AMG Systems of the United Kingdom and USA introduced the AMG810/816 series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. NTP servers are required in closed networks where there is no connection to the ...

Meta has developed a simplified version of its network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which it has dubbed the Simple Precision Time Protocol (SPTP). In a recent blog post, Meta said ...

David Mills, who created the tool that keeps the internet’s clocks synchronized, has died at 85. The Oakland-born man invented and spent decades upgrading Network Time Protocol, a system that, to this ...

More than a decade ago, European researchers invented highly accurate network time distribution protocols for CERN. They are now adopted by industries including financial services. Accuracy in the ...

While computers manage many things with extreme precision, they have surprising difficulty keeping track of time. It’s pretty much impossible for a computer to keep exact time, although accuracy can ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new report that gives all organizations the most current advice on how to protect their IT network infrastructures from cyberattacks. NSA's report ...

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his ...