NUTON: NPL's UTC Time Over Networks (pronounced Newton)

NUTON项目(NPL的UTC Over Networks)是一项可行性研究，将调查可用于在特丁顿的主要NPL设施、拟议的国家计时中心(NTC)枢纽和整个英国的核心关键国家基础设施位置之间提供时间转移机制的最合适的技术。选定的时间转移技术将使NTC中心能够与特丁顿的NPL控制的UTC时间表同步，并且将允许NTC集线器然后使用所选择的技术之一来同步终端用户应用。由于潜在的大量地理上不同的终端用户应用需要被同步到UTC(NPL)，可以设想所需的时间传递技术将包括某种形式的无线低频广播系统。

The NUTON project (NPL's UTC Over Networks), is a Feasibility Study that will investigate the most suitable technologies which could be used to provide a time transfer mechanism between the main NPL facility at Teddington, the proposed National Timing Centre (NTC) hubs and core Critical National Infrastructure locations across the UK.The selected time transfer technologies will enable the NTC hubs to be synchronised to the UTC timescale controlled by NPL at Teddington, and will allow the NTC hubs to then use one of the selected technologies to synchronise end-user applications.Due to the potentially large number of geographically diverse end-user applications that need to be synchronised to UTC(NPL) it is envisaged that the time transfer technology required will include some form of wireless low frequency broadcast system.