A method to communicate information within a data storage system comprising a plurality of enclosures, wherein the method defines and stores a first waveform comprising a frequency FB, a second waveform comprising a frequency F0 wherein that second waveform is decoded to mean a bit comprising a first value, and a third waveform comprising a frequency F1, wherein that third waveform is decoded to mean a bit comprising a second value. The method transmits by an initiating enclosure a byte of data encoded as eight data waveforms, wherein each of those data waveforms comprises the frequency FB in combination with either the frequency F1 or the frequency F0.