White Rabbit Project Solutions

White Rabbit Switches provides sub-nanosecond synchronization accuracy, which formerly required dedicated hard-wired timing systems, with the flexibility and modularity of real-time Ethernet networks.

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What is the White Rabbit Project?

White Rabbit is a collaborative APNT project including CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and other partners from universities and industry to develop a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and sub-nanosecond accuracy time transfer.

It provides sub-nanosecond synchronization accuracy, which formerly required dedicated hard-wired timing systems, with the flexibility and modularity of real-time Ethernet networks (Synchronous Ethernet). A White Rabbit network may be used solely to provide timing and synchronization to a distributed electronic system, or to provide both timing and real-time data transfer.

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Key Features

Reduces errors in time transfer with high accuracy phase and frequency time transfer
Scalable to long distances
Automatically calibrated links remove any potential offsets from variance between forward and reverse delays
Easy to integrate into existing network infrastructure
Utilizes standard Ethernet and extensions to PTP
Can operate over spare fiber next to existing network links
Can be multiplexed with data links using WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing)

Case Studies

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