EtherCAT seems pointless now that modern ethernet switches have 4ns port-to-port latency. A switch connectes devices with only one hop instead of up to hundreds for EtherCAT.
If you have information on these claims we would be interested to see. Browsing around I can't find any switch with a port-to-port latency of 4ns. Just because a switch has low latency doesn't mean the network can actually achieve those numbers. There are a lot of factors that go into port-to-port latency. Thank you for your comment.
EtherCAT seems pointless now that modern ethernet switches have 4ns port-to-port latency. A switch connectes devices with only one hop instead of up to hundreds for EtherCAT.
If you have information on these claims we would be interested to see. Browsing around I can't find any switch with a port-to-port latency of 4ns. Just because a switch has low latency doesn't mean the network can actually achieve those numbers. There are a lot of factors that go into port-to-port latency. Thank you for your comment.