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by ooterness 1090 days ago
Delay symmetry is a critical assumption in any two-way time transfer process. White Rabbit goes to extreme lengths to maintain that property.

This includes mandating use of cables that share a single optical fiber, with specific wavelength pairs and fiber types so you can calibrate for unavoidable differences in propagation time.

More info on their wiki:

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/SFP