Tuesday, May 4, 2004
New FireWire Technology To Be Demonstrated at WinHEC
Posted by Kent Pribbernow in "NEWS" @ 08:00 AM
"The 1394 Trade Association will bring a new set of FireWire technology demonstrations to this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference May 4-7 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. Developed and managed by Oxford Semiconductor, a leader in 1394 product design, the demonstrations will be part of the Windows Community Pavilion on the WinHEC floor."
"In the second demo, Oxford Semiconductor also will provide a demonstration of a 1394b RAID system showing the ability to stripe at 80 MBytes/second speeds, almost three times as fast as USB 2.0, which completes the same striping tasks at only 30 MBytes/second. The 1394b version of the standard, which also is known as FireWire 800, delivers speeds up to 800 Megabits/second and distances up to 100 meters, making it ideal for long-range home entertainment network backbones and other applications."
Sounds interesting. This will really open the Firewire to new possibilities. Speeds up to 3x faster than USB 2.0? Sweet!
"In the second demo, Oxford Semiconductor also will provide a demonstration of a 1394b RAID system showing the ability to stripe at 80 MBytes/second speeds, almost three times as fast as USB 2.0, which completes the same striping tasks at only 30 MBytes/second. The 1394b version of the standard, which also is known as FireWire 800, delivers speeds up to 800 Megabits/second and distances up to 100 meters, making it ideal for long-range home entertainment network backbones and other applications."
Sounds interesting. This will really open the Firewire to new possibilities. Speeds up to 3x faster than USB 2.0? Sweet!
