FireWire is a high-speed data transfer interface that was developed by IEEE
(Institue Of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) which is also known as IEEE
1394 was first released in 1995. The 1394 number comes from the fact that the
standard was the 1,394th standard that IEEE released in 1995. (I learn
something new everyday, I didn't know that! But now I do.)
The advantages are that its fast, can transfer massive amounts of data and any
type multimedia data and is just as popular a USB but much faster.
IEEE then released 1394A-2000 which the 2000 number represents the year it was
publised. 1394a was released to solve the incompatibility problems that the
orginal IEEE 1394 had.
IEEE 1394a or better known as 1394-400 has speed of 400 Mb per second and IEEE
1394b (1394-800) runs at 800Mb per second.
Soon future versions will support speeds of up to 3,200 Mbps which will also
support
network technologies such as glass and plastic fiber optic CAT 5 UTP cable.
IEEE 1394 can be diasychained just like USB IEEE1394 you can connect 16 devices
on each node with a IEEE 1394 hub. If that's not good enough you can also make
1,024 bridged buses which can connect more than 64,000 nodes!
You can connect external harddrives, digital cameras, video capture devices,
printers, CD and DVD drives ect.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
BS IT mgnt candidate UMDUC.
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What is 1394?
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