<s>
EtherSound	B-Protocol
is	O
an	O
audio-over-Ethernet	B-Protocol
technology	O
for	O
audio	O
engineering	O
and	O
broadcast	O
engineering	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EtherSound	B-Protocol
is	O
developed	O
and	O
licensed	O
by	O
Digigram	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EtherSound	B-Protocol
is	O
intended	O
by	O
the	O
developer	O
to	O
be	O
compliant	O
with	O
IEEE	O
802.3	O
Ethernet	O
standards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Just	O
as	O
the	O
IEEE	O
defines	O
rates	O
such	O
as	O
100	B-Protocol
Megabit	I-Protocol
and	O
Gigabit	O
Ethernet	O
standards	O
,	O
EtherSound	B-Protocol
has	O
been	O
developed	O
as	O
both	O
ES-100	O
(	O
for	O
use	O
on	O
dedicated	O
100	B-Protocol
Megabit	I-Protocol
Ethernet	O
networks	O
or	O
within	O
a	O
Gigabit	O
network	O
as	O
a	O
VLAN	O
)	O
and	O
ES-Giga	O
(	O
for	O
use	O
on	O
dedicated	O
Gigabit	O
Ethernet	O
networks	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
two	O
versions	O
of	O
EtherSound	B-Protocol
are	O
not	O
compatible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
Ethersound	B-Protocol
is	O
compliant	O
with	O
the	O
IEEE	O
802.3	O
physical	B-Application
layer	I-Application
standards	O
,	O
logically	O
it	O
uses	O
a	O
token	B-Protocol
passing	I-Protocol
scheme	O
of	O
transporting	O
audio	O
data	O
which	O
prevents	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
features	O
from	O
being	O
used	O
on	O
a	O
standard	O
Ethernet	O
network	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
not	O
designed	O
to	O
share	O
Ethernet	O
LANs	B-General_Concept
with	O
typical	O
office	O
operations	O
data	O
or	O
Internet	O
traffic	O
such	O
as	O
email	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
this	O
reason	O
Ethersound	B-Protocol
is	O
best	O
used	O
in	O
applications	O
suitable	O
to	O
a	O
daisy	O
chain	O
network	O
topology	O
or	O
in	O
live	O
sound	O
applications	O
that	O
benefit	O
from	O
its	O
low	O
point-to-point	O
latency	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Low	O
latency	O
is	O
important	O
for	O
many	O
users	O
of	O
audio	B-Protocol
over	I-Protocol
Ethernet	I-Protocol
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EtherSound	B-Protocol
can	O
deliver	O
up	O
to	O
64	O
channels	O
of	O
48kHz	O
,	O
24-bit	O
PCM	B-Algorithm
audio	I-Algorithm
data	O
with	O
a	O
network	O
latency	O
of	O
125	O
microseconds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EtherSound	B-Protocol
's	O
network	O
latency	O
is	O
stable	O
and	O
deterministic	O
;	O
The	O
delay	O
between	O
any	O
two	O
devices	O
on	O
an	O
EtherSound	B-Protocol
network	O
can	O
be	O
calculated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
companies	O
have	O
licensed	O
the	O
EtherSound	B-Protocol
technology	O
.	O
</s>
