When Every Nanosecond Matters

Light travels just 30 centimeters in one nanosecond. Nevertheless, factories, datacenters, telecom networks, power grids and financial trading systems routinely synchronize hundreds of devices to within just a few nanoseconds, often over ordinary Ethernet.
How is that possible?

Sven Meier and Thomas Schaub from NetTimeLogic take you on a journey through the evolution of time synchronization, from sundials and mechanical clocks to atomic clocks, GNSS, NTP and IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP). Discover where precise time comes from, how it is distributed across modern networks, and what it takes to achieve nanosecond-level synchronization in embedded systems.