SMPTE will run a full-day Precision Timing for ST 2110 bootcamp at NAB Show New York on October 21. The programme is aimed at broadcast and media engineers who need to understand how Precision Time Protocol is designed, distributed, measured and maintained inside an IP facility.
The curriculum spans timing fundamentals, network architecture, clock measurement and deployment practice. Organisers expect participants to leave able to configure and verify a grandmaster and downstream clocks, read PTP traffic and identify the questions that should be put to a supplier before purchase.
Redundancy is a central operational topic. A backup clock is useful only when the network, boundary clocks and endpoints maintain acceptable behaviour during failover, so timing design has to be validated as an end-to-end system rather than as two independent grandmasters.
This is a training announcement, not a new standard or product. It does not publish lab material, interoperability results or a certification outcome. Its technical significance is the emphasis on practical fault finding and failover in facilities where PTP underpins video, audio and control.
