• Find the limits of your PTP equipment
  • Hackathon for new PTP implementations
  • Free testing from Test Equipment vendors
  • Meet and learn from the network timing specialist world community

 

NOTE: All Plugfest participants must register and pay for the ISPCS event on the ISPCS Registration Page. 

This form is not valid registration for the conference.

Layer 2 P2P:

  • IEC 61850-9-3, IEEE C37.238, HSR and PRP
  • IEEE 802.1AS (gPTP)

Broadcast Profiles:

  • SMPTE ST-2059, AES67

Telecom Profiles:

  • G.8275.1, G.8275.2

Advanced and New Technologies:

  • White rabbit/High Accuracy PTP
  • Authentication TLV
  • GDOI key management
  • Profile isolation
  • Wi-Wi
  • Client Server PTP
  • NTPv5

Adversity station:

  • Rogue Grandmaster
  • Wrong Profile Messages
  • PTP Message Flood
  • Leap Seconds
  • Profile/Technology Specific Tests
  • PPS accuracy analyzer
  • Wrong SdoId traffic

Quiet station and New and Advanced station:

  • No intentional adversities

Test equipment one-on-one testing:

  • Safran (GNSS simulator)
  • Calnex (protocols & timing)
  • Keysight  (precision timing)
  • Meinberg (PTP-Simulator)
  • 8:30   Room open
  • 9:00 – 10:00  Set up
  • 10:00 – 12:00  Testing
  • 12:00 – 1:00  Lunch
  • 1:00 – 6:00  Testing
  • 6:30  Room locked
  • 8:30   Room open
  • 9:00 – 10:00  Set up
  • 10:00 – 12:00  Testing
  • 12:00 – 1:00  Lunch
  • 1:00 – 5:00  Testing
  • 5:00 – 6:00  Pack up
  • 6:30  Plugfest closed

Address 
Sarah Lightizer  
(sarah.lightizer@innvesthotels.com)  
ATTN: ISPCS  
Holiday Inn & Suites Ottawa Kanata  
101 Kanata Avenue Kanata  
Ontario K2T 1E6 Canada

Return Address

  • Bring return shipping labels
  • Alternative: Ship to your office or channel partner in Canada near Ottawa
  • You will need proper paperwork to bring equipment to event and return (Carnet forms)
  • If you have a customs problem: Contact you shipper
  • Event and hotel staff unfortunately cannot help

Arrival of Shipments

•Shipments may not arrive earlier than Monday, September 29
•Shipments should arrive no later than Friday, October 3
•Return Shipments
•Shipper must pick up by Saturday, October 11

Shipping carriers should check in at the front desk of the hotel

ISPCS will provide:

  • PTP capable switches
  • Power strips
  • North America 3-prong sockets (preferred)
  • 2-prong acceptable
  • Ethernet cables (CAT-6)
  • GNSS signal
  • BNC coaxial cable
  • Connector TBD
  • 1PPS measurement cable
  • BNC coaxial cable male

Participants should bring:

  • Your equipment
  • Enough units for each test station you will participate in
  • Additional PTP-capable switches
    • If you have them to bring:
  • RF adaptors for coaxial cables
  • Optical fiber and SFPs
    • If you want to test this:
  • Electrical socket adaptors
  • Plus power strip in your native form factor
  • Notebook computer for PTP Track Hound or Wireshark
    • Need Ethernet port or USB/Ethernet adaptor
  • GNSS splitter
    • If you have more than one GM capable device at a station
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