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[Ntp] Costs of running NTP servers

Hal Murray <halmurray@sonic.net> Wed, 15 February 2023 20:46 UTC

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Subject was was: [Ntp] ntpv5 requirements

> It's an interesting project, but those FPGAs are quite expensive. It seems to
> me you can get much better performance/cost with common x86-64 CPUs. 

What are the costs of running a high traffic NTP server?  Or collection of 
servers?  Something on the scale of NIST or PTB?

What fraction of the per-packet cost is hardware/servers?
How much is power/cooling?  Rack space?

How much is the network cost?  NTP with NTS packets are much bigger than 
simple NTP packets.

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