{"id":185909,"date":"2024-03-24T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/cern-launches-the-white-rabbit-collaboration"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:09:44","slug":"cern-launches-the-white-rabbit-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/cern-launches-the-white-rabbit-collaboration","title":{"rendered":"CERN launches the White Rabbit Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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White Rabbit<\/a> (WR) is a technology developed at CERN, in collaboration with institutes and companies, to synchronise devices in the accelerators down to sub-nanoseconds and solve the challenge of establishing a common notion of time across a network. Indeed, at a scale of billionths of a second, the time light takes to travel through a fibre-optic cable and the time the electronics take to process the signal are no longer negligible. To avoid potential delays, the co-inventors of White Rabbit designed a new ethernet switch.<\/p>\n

First used in 2012, the application of this fully open-source technology has quickly expanded outside the field of particle physics. In 2020, it was included<\/a> in the worldwide industry standard known as Precision Time Protocol<\/a> (PTP), governed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, CERN recently launched the White Rabbit Collaboration, a membership-based global community whose objective is to maintain a high-performance open-source technology that meets the needs of users and to facilitate its uptake by industry. The WR Collaboration will provide dedicated support and training, facilitate R&D projects between entities with common interests and complementary expertise and establish a testing ecosystem fostering trust in products that incorporate the open-source technology. At CERN, the WR Collaboration Bureau \u2013 a dedicated team composed of senior White Rabbit engineers and a community coordinator \u2013 will facilitate the day-to-day running of the Collaboration\u2019s activities and support its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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