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What’s new: India is moving to join the list of nations deploying a clock and fiber-based timing network to provide a sovereign national “tech heartbeat.”
Why it’s important:
- Time and/or timing is essential to virtually every technology. While many systems just require synchronization, there are benefits to being able to synch to a national time scale.
- Many, many systems synch using vulnerable GNSS signals.
What else to know:
- RNT Foundation recommends nations implement a combination of fiber-linked clocks and terrestrial broadcast to work with GNSS and other space-based systems.
- See our 2020 and 2021 papers about “A Resilient National Architecture” in our on-line library.
Science
White Rabbit Technology Powers India’s Push For Secure And Uniform Time Synchronisation Nationwide
Swarajya Staff
Jul 18, 2026
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi commissioned a White Rabbit Technology-based Indian Standard Time dissemination demonstration network at the Regional Reference Standards Laboratory in Jakkur, Bengaluru.
The initiative, implemented under the government’s ‘One Nation, One Time’ vision, marks a significant step towards establishing a uniform, highly precise and secure time standard across India.
The demonstration network enables secure dissemination of UTC-traceable Indian Standard Time using Precision Time Protocol-based White Rabbit technology.
