Global, Precise, Secure TaaS on Platform Equinix®
Explore technical specifications and availability for Equinix Precision Time program.
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Product Benefits
Time and cost savings
Equinix manages and maintains GPS antennas, receivers, grandmaster clocks and time servers, reducing time and cost spent on precise timekeeping
High Accuracy
Predictable time synchronisation with PTP accuracy of up to 50 microseconds
Product flexibility
Choose between Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP), enable automated provisioning of servers and leverage the Technical Documentation Centre for various methods of cascading time.
Availability
Available in all IBX® data centers in North America, Singapore, Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.
Solve for Key Use Cases
See how Equinix Precision Time helps to simplify industry-specific challenges.
Financial services
Enables high-frequency trading platforms to maintain exceedingly precise time to maintain an ordered sequence of transactions
Media and entertainment
Online streaming services, programmatic advertising and gaming companies can maintain accuracy by preventing “lip-sync” errors and ensure chronological order of play in multi-player games
Enterprise Applications
A narrow drift offset is needed for distributed transactional apps/DBs, accurate ordering of logs, preventing online attacks (sequence of events)