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Siegburg
/ LEUNIG. Compare the system times of the workstations in a network,
and you may make a frightening discovery: time differences of minutes,
even days, are not uncommon. While processors are expected to work with
the precision of a Swiss watch, computers' real-time clocks are often
surprisingly inaccurate. To ensure that your company keeps up with the
time, you need to make sure that your clocks do so as well. Using a
radio link to an atomic clock, NeoClock-II - the new radio clock from
LEUNIG - automatically keeps entire corporate networks synchronized.
This is now available throughout all of Europe.
What good is backing up your data, if the backup program does not know which version
of a file is the newest? How can files downloaded over the Internet
be archived correctly, if the PC's clock is an hour slow? And how will
your just-in-time production work, if each clock keeps a different time?
"Incorrect system times present a serious risk to companies working
with time-critical applications", warns Peter Leunig, owner of LEUNIG
GmbH
NeoClock-II is designed to prevent just such a situation: using a radio signal from
the most accurate clock in the world - the standard time base of the
German Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology (PTB) in Brunswick
- this radio clock with its stylish housing keeps PCs and even entire
corporate networks precisely synchronized. The time signal, which is
sent from a transmitter near Frankfurt in Germany, can be received within
a radius of 1500 kilometres, making it possible to use NeoClock-II throughout
Central Europe.
Customers located outside the reach of the DCF77 transmitter, can now choose the
new NeoClock-II F. NeoClock-II F is based on a transmitter named France
Inter, located in Allouis near Paris, France.. Operating at long waves
(162 KHz) and a giant transmission power of 2 Megawatts, it has a reach
of 2.500-3.500 kilometers. With the exeption of the very north of Scandinavia,
it can be received throughout all Europe including large parts of Russia
and North-Africa.
Time differences between France Inter and other time systems such as DCF77 and UTC are
minimal (below one millionth of a second). Should the transmitter ever
fail, NeoClock features a highly accurate built-in crystal clock, which
is theoretically capable of keeping the network time synchronized for
up to eight years.
Supporting the operating systems Windows 95/98, Windows 2000 and NT 4.x, Novell
Netware from version 3.x and OS/2 from version 2.1, the radio clock
requires only negligible system resources. Its price varies depending
on the number of supported server/client systems
Visit LEUNIG at the CeBIT in Hall 11, Stand D50
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