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

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Piscataway (NJ) - IEEE 1394, better known under the brand names of Firewire and i.Link, will get a speed bump before the end of the year: The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that provides support for a bandwidth of up to 3.2 Gb/s.

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[shachar2]

1394 800MB version failed, different connector and highly priced controller meant that equipment manufacturer kept the old 400MB version and didn't adopt the 800MB version.

It remains to be seen if mistakes were learned and if the s1600 & s3200 will be adopted

 

[velocityg4]

If cabling and controllers are not outrageously expensive this would be great. Not only for Hard Drives and other consumer/pro devices but for greater than Gigabit networking speeds. Since 10Gb is so freaking expensive.

 

[c0mp4ter]

IEEE 1394 is promising. but the usb 3.0 is not that bad too.