White Rabbit Technology
It was developed at CERN to provide sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronisation for the LHC accelerators chain.
It was developped as an open-source hardware, with primary adoption by other research infrastructures with similar challenges in highly accurate synchronization of distributed electronic devices.
It was first developped in 2012. It is an ethernet based technology.
Sub-nanosecond synchronization, deterministic data transfer, timestamping***, trigger distribution are its important features.
It has potential to be incorporated into different sectors including telecommunications, financial markets, smart grids, space industry and quantum computing.
( *** Time stamping is the process of securely recording the exact date and time when a digital event—such as a file creation, data transaction, or signature—occurs. )
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