Daisy chaining
With both the PixLite® Mk3 A-Series and PixLite® Mk3 T series controllers, you can enjoy the availability of Dual-Gigabit Ethernet ports allowing you to daisy-chain devices together, connecting one device's network port to the next device (and so on) without the need to return the network cable to a switch or router.
Along with ease of systems wiring, there is also the added advantage with these products of being able to utilise our Universe Data Hardware Firewall. This internal process allows the Ethernet circuitry to efficiently filter out irrelevant data before it gets to the processor.
On implementing this, there is almost zero latency from device to device, so the number of devices you can daisy-chain is practically unlimited. To support this, we have calculated a 16us latency from device to device. So, as an example with 100 devices, there would be approximately 1.6ms latency from first device to last device.
By using standard Ethernet network cable (e.g. Cat 6), you're able to connect up to 100 meters from device to device. To provide more background on this question, we suggest you familiarize yourself with our articles on Ethernet Loop-Through and Universe Data Hardware Firewall.