10-Aug-2018, 11:13
As you say, Pim, it can't be about synchronisation. I guess the idea of the clock input is that the switch can use a "clean" external clock rather than some internal clock as a reference for the Ethernet physical layer devices. That might in principle reduce clock phase noise passed on to connected equipment (hand-waving at this point).
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