Protocols and time transfer

White Rabbit

Name: Daylight bv
Address: Brusselsesteenweg 715, Gentbrugge, 9050, BE
Telephone: +32 9 230 54 00
Price range: $$$

White Rabbit is an open technology, developed at CERN, that combines PTP with Synchronous Ethernet and phase measurement over optical fibre to achieve synchronisation down to the sub-nanosecond. It is used in particle accelerators, telescopes and measurement networks.

White Rabbit is included in the PTP standard (IEEE 1588-2019) as a high-accuracy profile.

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