IEEE Approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 High-speed Serial Bus Specification

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Piscataway (NJ) - IEEE 1394 IEEE 1394 interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire) , better known under the brand names of Firewire and i.Link, will get a speed bump before the end of the year: The IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers) has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that provides support for a bandwidth of up to 3.2 Gb/s.

Firewire has come a long way. From the initial development by Apple in the late 1980s, to the technology’s completion in 1995 and surge in popularity in the early 2000s, the technology has become a serial bus Serial communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_communication) interface common in Sony and Apple computers as well as a range of consumer electronics devices such as video cameras.

Most IEEE 1394 devices are still running on the S400 S-400 Triumf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_Triumf) (400 Mb/s) specification despite the fact that S800 (800 Mb/s) was introduced with the IEEE 1394b spec in 2003. The problem with this spec was a different connector than the design that was used for S400. However, bilingual cables that are compatible with S400 and S800 ports are available.

IEEE Approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 High-speed Serial Bus Specification (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/IEEE-1394-Firewire-ilink-specification,6000.html)

[anon]

Technology (and data transfer rates :tongue:) are advancing every time more and faster...

And just a bit more than 10 years ago, a computer with a 100Mhz processor, 16MB of RAM and a 11000 baud modem was a space ship :biggrin:

[Aurion]

3.2GB cheeeeeeeeeeez !! :shockkk!: I used a 100MBs/100MBs once (I was kinda shocked till the next day :biggrin:) so cant imagine using a 1GB connection,now they are offering pure 3.2GBs LOL this is mad :tongue:

[anon]

now they are offering pure 3.2GBs LOL this is mad :tongue:

Mmm... in the article, the B in "Gb" in lowercase, so it'd be talking about gigabits and you about gigabytes...

1 Gb (gigabit) is 125 megabytes. 1 GB (gigabyte) = 3072 megabytes, you can see the difference :wink:

The article talks about 3.2 Gb transfer rates, which would be 400 MB.

This whole byte/bit thing is so confusing at times... :confused2:

[Aurion]

hmm,damn,did not notice that :confused2: in that case 400MB wont be that huge tho

[anon]

But it doubles the current maximum transfer rate of 1.6Gb :wink:

[Aurion]

anyway,its a new race of technology so I guess will add for sure extra feature (or otherwise they would not have made it)

[anon]

(or otherwise they would not have made it)

Of course :wink: doubling the latest maximum transfer rate is a big advancement, you can now transfer a full DVD in a bit more than 10 seconds :biggrin:

[Aurion]

Well,here we got some packages offered by one of the major ISPs which includes double the speed of the chosen package (like when you apply for a 1MB connetion,u actually get a 2MB connection only when u pay for the original amount of the 1MB connection)