Marc Weiss, National Institute of Standards and Technology (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Marc Weiss, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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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 US Naval Observatory time services in Colorado Springs, and measures system time transfer accuracy.

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Paul Trantow/Altitude Arts for NIST

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