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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2019
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Craig L. Beardsley, Chicago, IL (US);
Jerome G. Liscano, New York, NY (US);
Michael J. Strein, Bohemia, NY (US);
Carl A. Brown, Deer Park, NY (US);
Nishith Shah, Monroe, NJ (US);
Benjamin H. Kepler, Palisades, NY (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.