News from 2006-11-28
PTP Starter Kit: Getting Started with IEEE1588
All three Starterkit versions include a LANTIME M600/GPS/PTP Grandmaster by Meinberg and a Industrial Ethernet Switch MICE MS-20 by Hirschmann, which is already equipped with a IEEE1588-compliant media module and acts as a PTP Boundary Clock.
The client or slave clock role then can be taken either by a Meinberg SyncBox/PTP or a IEEE1588-PCI card, which runs under Linux and has been developed by InES/ZHW. A third possibility is to order the Starterkit version 3, which comes with both the SyncBox and the PCI card.
Together with the hardware the PTP-Starterkit users will get a Live CD, which boots a Linux, and provides driver support for the PCI card as well as a PTP management application developed by InES. This management application can be used without the PCI card. It allows users to review status information of all detected PTP objects and can change configuration parameters on those objects.
More details about the PTP Starterkit can be read on the PTP-Starterkit Website. There interesting companies can register themselves for receiving price and ordering information about the three versions of the Kit.
Please note: The number of available Starterkits has been limited.