IEEE 1394b!

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from Electronic News. Read the full story here!

IEEE 1394b allows extensions to 800Mbit/sec., 1.6Gbit/sec. and 3.2Gbit/sec., all over copper wire. It supports long-distance transfers to 100 meters over a variety of media: CAT-5 unshielded cable at 100Mbit/sec., existing plastic optical fiber at 200Mbits/sec., next-generation plastic optical fiber at 400Mbit/sec. and 50-micron mulitmode glass optical fiber at up to 3.2Gbit/sec. The improved speed and distance capabilities of 1394b result from two major improvements: overlapped arbitration and advanced data encoding.

Wow! 800Mbit/sec and up to 3.2Gbit/sec!

This is awesome!

So when will we start to see these things on Macs? G5's anybody?

 

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ahh damn... just noticed that the article was written July 2001.... this is old news then.. oh well, i still wanna share it!