
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
When USB 1.0 was introduced, it ran at 12 Mbps. This was a fairly good
speed for most types of devices but was a little too slow when it came to
multimedia devices, such as digital video cameras. Typically, these types of
devices use a FireWire connection, which has a transfer rate of up to 400
Mbps and supports 63 devices in a chain. This is...