Timing is everything, especially in data replication. So, how good is good enough? Can you afford for your system clock to be off by five minutes, a minute, fifteen seconds, or even a second? It is not unusual for computer clocks to gain or lose time. Within a distributed global network, it is entirely possible for your system clock in Beijing to be slow by 2 minutes, and the system clock in New York to be fast by 35 seconds. This makes data replication, log messages, and transaction message ordering challenging. Correct operation of data replication is a big deal; security compliance and auditing require accurate times to perform forensic analysis on incident detection and reporting. Bi-directional replication is based on time of events and in order for them to work correctly in all situations the system clocks have to be synchronized as closely as possible. When data accuracy is important shouldn’t your system clocks be in synch?

Nexsion’s Network Time Protocol, NxNTP addresses the critical need of time synchronization for distributed or active – active systems. Based on the time tested, NxLIB platform for robustness and reliability, NxNTP provides accurate time synchronization within milliseconds. NxNTP is an order of magnitude more accurate than competing products. NxNTP obtains the time standard from the NTP server of your choice and uses a set of algorithms where it queries the NTP and then performs proprietary heuristic algorithms to adjust the clock so that it maintains the correct time. NxNTP is user configurable and can be configured to notify operations via email or pager when critical, time synchronization problems occur. If clock synchronization is important to your business, NxNTP provides the timely solution.

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