A precise and accurate system clock is especially important for network timing other services including Kerberos user authentication and user access logs.
Time servers provide the source for network timestamp data.
NTP servers are organized into layers called strata based on their logical distance from a reference clock. The University maintains two stratum 1 NTP servers connected to reference clocks. These stratum 1 servers are used to serve time to a group of stratum 2 servers, which in turn serve time to NTP clients and stratum 3 servers. All University computing devices use the three stratum 2 NTP servers for time synchronization. This project calls for the replacement of the University's stratum 2 timeservers.