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by michaelt 444 days ago
The bandwidth requirements are very low - you can sync time over a 56kbps serial port if you like.

However, the big benefit of PTP is having your precise timing and your main network connection share a single wire - so if your server needs 10 Gbps for whatever the server does, to get the highest accuracy you'd want a PTP compatible switch with 10Gbps ports.