System information

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E Snake
The main components of the Whirlwind E Snake™ system consist of E Snake Frames (ESF) and E Snake Control™
software for managing the system. Two or more of these frames connected to each other through a 100Mb Ethernet
switch with CAT-5 or fiber optics replace the traditional analog multipair audio snake. E Snake utilizes CobraNet®,
the industry standard for real-time, multi-channel networked audio.
Each E Snake ESF consists of a hardware frame and motherboard that can be configured with up to four input cards
(MLI) and up to four output cards (MLO). Each card is capable of processing eight channels of audio. Therefore, each
frame is capable of simultaneously transmitting and receiving up to 32 channels of audio. Multiple frames can be used
with Gigabit switches to increase the capacity to literally HUNDREDS of channels if required.
See E Snake operation manual for more complete information.