New, Faster FireWire Standard

The 1394 Trade Association today introduced the new 1394b specification, the updated version of the industry's most important multimedia bus. The new version will supplement the original IEEE 1394-1995 and 1394a specifications, and will lead to expanded adoption of the multimedia standard in many new applications. IEEE 1394, also known commercially as FireWire. 1394b enables the extension of the standard first to 800 Megabits/second and 1.6 Gigabits/second, then on to 3.2 gigabits/second. [Business Wire]