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Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond | Hacker News

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  1. Hacker News discussed Wi-Wi, a wireless time-synchronization approach that claims nanosecond-level precision.

  2. The post contrasts it with ordinary networking gear, which is usually only accurate to microseconds unless it truly supports PTP in hardware.

  3. It highlights how hard reliable sub-microsecond timing is without specialized switches or clocks such as boundary clock and transparent clock devices.

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