Performance
Table 5-4: EtherCAT Performance Overview
The communication with 100 servo axes is also extremely fast: every 100µs, all axes are provided with command values and control data and report their actual position and status. The Distributed Clocks technique enables the axes to be synchronized with a deviation of significantly less than 1 microsecond. And even at this pace, there is more than sufficient bandwidthIn computer networking, bandwidth often refers to a data rate measured in bits/s, for example, network throughput. The reason for the connection of data rate with the term bandwidth is that the limit to the data rate of a physical communication link is related to its bandwidth in hertz for asynchronous communications such as TCP/IP, parameter download or diagnostic data upload.