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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Symmetricom, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sanjay Mani, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSEMI FREQUENCY AND TIME CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0667 (2013.01);
Abstract
A clock at a first network element that is connected to a second network element over an optical fiber link is aligned in time/phase using packet protocols such as PTP. The invention discloses how to correct the asymmetry error inherent in traditional packet-based time-transfer methods.