Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP

Mon May 16 14:56:37 UTC 2016

> I was just thing about this WAN jitter issue myself.  I'm wondering how many
> folks put NTP traffic in priority queues?  At least for devices in your
> managed IP ranges.  Seems like that would improve jitter.  Would like to
> hear about others doing this successfully prior to suggesting it for our
> network.

NTP, no. Not worth it. PTP, synched to a suitably accurate source,
absolutely.

Steinar Haug, AS2116