The future of synchronization - white elephant or white rabbit is the title of a presentation at the International Telecom Sync Forum - ITSF 2014.

This paper considers new requirements and new High Accuracy technology available for Telecoms synchronization. Also a look at distributed applications ready to utilize high accuracy sync. And considers why a technology of the past is still the bases of time standardization efforts for the future? What sort of transition and inter-operation scenarios are possible? Is the white rabbit too early or too late?