I fell through a Looking Glass!!!
The White Rabbit Project
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For the Netflix television series, see White Rabbit Project (TV series).
White Rabbit is the name of a collaborative project including CERN, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, and other partners from universities and industry to develop a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and sub-nanosecond accuracy time transfer. Its initial use was as a timing distribution network for control and data acquisition timing of the accelerator sites at CERN as well as in GSI’s Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) project. The hardware designs as well as the source code are publicly available.[1] The name of the project is a reference to the White Rabbit appearing in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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I do believe you fell in head first, Cats PJs! Sending some rope and backpack, a flashlight, batteries, an extra sweater and some other stuff!
I am not a techie, so while I admire the glimpse that those descriptions give, I know I am not totally equipped at this point to fully appreciate the complete significance... and It does seem certain that there IS some significance
I did notice that in the portion of the article you quoted dealing with commercial applications,
“...The first white rabbit element on the white rabbit project was the “white rabbit switch”, financed by The government of Spain and CERN, and produced by Seven Solutions....”
I could not help but think of the 7 Dwarves.
*sigh*