On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:47 +0200, Koenraad Lelong wrote: > John Andersen schreef: > > On Monday 16 April 2007, Mike Adolf wrote: > ... > > > > Firewire is twice as fast as usb 1.1, but not as fast as usb 2.0 > > > > There is a new firewire slowly starting to appear that will > > be about twice as fast as existing usb 2.0 (or existing firewire) > > but I've not actually seen this in production yet. > AFAIK, Firewire 2, 800Mbps does exist for years. Maybe it's becomming > mainstream now. Or maybe there are few devices using it.
It is often called FW-800 and it has been around a couple of years. There are many devices using it. The first FW is called FW-400. BTW, FW-400 is typically faster than USB 2.0 in many uses. Especially streaming images. On our FW-400 system, we actually get 400 MBit of data (calculated with cameras that provide an uncompressed image size/rate). I am not sure if the USB 2.0 speed is for the data only, or it if includes the transmission overhead. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
