Custom Report on Hoptroff Time-as-a-Service

STAC recently performed a custom exploration of Hoptroff’s time synchronization service taking inspiration from the STAC-TS™ methodology.

STAC-TS is the established benchmark standard in Capital Markets for assessing time synchronization performance.  This report is a custom performance exploration of a long-distance terrestrial time service against a local GNSS steered reference source under several familiar networking scenarios, taking inspiration from the STAC-TS methodology.

Detailed results can be found in the report but the main highlight is:

  • The remote PTP service delivered a mean offset of approximately 3.3 μs over the long-distance link.

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In the EU, MiFID 2 requires firms to capture certain trading events and timestamp them to within certain allowed deviations from UTC. In the US, the new CAT NMS plan requires SROs to synchronize clocks to within 100 microseconds of NIST time, and it is probably only a matter of time before that extends to other market players.

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