Oxford ships its first 922 FireWire 2.0 order to LaCie
The OXUF922 marks the next milestone in high-bandwidth, high-speed data transfer for external drives. It combines an 800 Mbps FireWire 2.0 (1394B) Link layer and Phy controller with a 480 Mbps USB2.0 Phy in a programmable device that results in a fully integrated solution for high-speed data streaming.
Firewire 2.0
FireWire is an Apple trademark for the IEEE 1394 standard. This cross-platform digital peripheral interface standard is suitable for multimedia devices and many other high performance applications. FireWire's benefits include fast real-time transfer, plug-and-play, hot swapping, a higher-speed growth path, and easy-to-use cables and connectors
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Faster, better and more networkable Firewire
What is changing with 1394b? To start with the most simple improvement, speed is dramatically increased from a maximum of 400 Mbits/sec to 3.2 Gbit/sec by the end of 2003. By year's end, 800 Mbit/sec products should hit the stores, and an intermediate maximum of 1.6 Gbit/sec will be achieved in 2002. With its high speed, IEEE 1394b is one of the best technologies to transport video images and other multimedia content from one device to another. The architecture of IEEE 1394b is especially suited for transporting streaming media, because it consists of continuous dual simplex transmission. There are two transporting wires within a regular IEEE 1394b cable: one carries the signal from the host to the peripheral and the other one carries the signal from the peripheral to the host. Both are operational all the time.
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