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Mathematician Marc Weiss in the NIST Boulder laboratory that controls an experimental demonstration of time transfer over commercial telecommunications networks. In the experiment, equipment in this room locks onto NIST’s official version of international time, transfers time signals back and forth between NIST and U.S. Naval Observatory time services in Colorado Springs, and measures system time transfer accuracy.
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