Join us for this webinar to find out more about how we're managing the UK's timescale to ensure confidence. Our experts will be discussing:
- why the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the home of time in the UK
- how the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme will deliver the resilient time for the future
- how NPL delivers impact for the UK with our time and frequency expertise
- the capabilities of our NPLTime Certified® and NPLTime Access® services.
We will also be joined by speakers from across industry to talk us through timings needs within in their sectors.
In this webinar our experts will explain why accurate, resilient, and traceable timing plays a vital role in critical national infrastructures such as:
- finance
- telecommunications
- broadcast
- transportation
- cloud services
- energy
- national security.
The rapid growth in the adoption of digital services in recent years has also increased the need for tight synchronisation of systems and traceability to a common reference time scale.
The most common mechanism for accessing time up until recently was primarily via Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). It is widely acknowledged that GNSS timing signals can be subject to disruption, with the loss of position navigation and timing (PNT) services recognised on the UK’s 2023 National Risk Register and the UK Government’s PNT policy framework announcement in October 2023.
Operational resilience is currently one of the highest priorities for any commercial entity that relies on time synchronisation of devices and servers, as they seek to achieve operational continuity. It also has impacts on risk mitigation of financial and reputational damage associated with the potential loss of the GNSS signal.
NPL operates the national time scale UTC(NPL) and the UK primary frequency standards, using these to contribute to global timekeeping. We also disseminate accurate time and frequency to users across the UK, via services such as the MSF radio time signal, our internet time service, and NPLTime®. Atomic timekeeping underpins technologies that are part of our daily lives, such as mobile phones, the internet and GNSS. We are also a government advisor on matters of PNT security and resilience.