The Auvitran AVY16-ES100 provides two EtherSound connectors and an RS232 port for both very low latency audio and data transmission. A 3rd port is available to connect control PC, for remote monitoring and management. Up to sixteen audio input channels and sixteen audio output channels can be transmitted to or sent from a Yamaha device to any other EtherSound compatible equipment, over regular CAT5 cables. The AVY16-ES100 cards offer full network and/or local control of all channel assignments as well as constant network status monitoring, making it ideal for live professional audio applications. The general purpose Serial port allows connection and control of the mixer's parameters or other 3rd party external equipment. Native ES100 kernel allows AVY16-ES100 to build ring architectures for network redundancy purposes, and point to point RS232 tunneling communication between equipment.