{"id":112250,"date":"2024-06-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/?p=112250"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:48:51","slug":"agreement-between-namex-and-top-ix-for-the-provision-of-time-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/agreement-between-namex-and-top-ix-for-the-provision-of-time-as-a-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement between Namex and TOP-IX for the provision of Time as a Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.namex.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Namex Consortium<\/a>&nbsp;and the TOP-IX Consortium have signed an agreement for the provision of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/timeasaservice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time as a Service<\/a>&nbsp;(TaaS) service, marking an important step forward in the collaboration between two of the leading Italian Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official announcement was made today, The official announcement was made today, Wednesday 19 June, from the stage of the Veneto leg of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholesaletours.it\/2024\/wwt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fiber Telecom Wholesale Winery Tour 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time as a Service<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The TaaS service, based on the Precise Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP), on the infrastructures of Namex and TOP-IX, guarantees greater security compared to similar services delivered via satellite systems (e.g., GPS). This is a fundamental requirement for mission-critical applications such as broadcasting, smart grid power networks, telecommunications, and high-frequency financial trading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service was developed by TOP-IX in collaboration with its member, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inrim.it\/it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Institute of Metrological Research<\/a>&nbsp;(INRIM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sharing of services<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This agreement with Namex allows us to extend the reach of our TaaS service, making an extremely reliable and secure time synchronization solution available outside our network as well,&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>comments Andrea Casalegno, Executive Director of TOP-IX<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to collaborate with Namex to advance innovation in the networking sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurizio Goretti, General Manager of Namex, echoes this sentiment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe collaboration with TOP-IX for the provision of the TaaS service represents a concrete achievement, the first, of the federation we established with them last year and moves towards the mutual sharing of services in a federated, secure, high-performance, and neutral environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Namex Consortium\u00a0and the TOP-IX Consortium have signed an agreement for the provision of the\u00a0Time as a Service\u00a0(TaaS) service, marking an important step forward in the collaboration between two of the leading Italian Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,60,300],"tags":[382,383,384],"class_list":["post-112250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-innovation","category-dp","category-development-program","tag-namex-2","tag-taas-2","tag-time-as-a-service-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112251,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112250\/revisions\/112251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}