With this standard announced at the MacWorld expo on Tuesday I expected a huge furor emnating from this forum! But I guess I'll have to start the topic....:this is AMAZING!!!! I've been waiting for it forever, now a high end digital consumer has the perfect system in the offing: 17-Inch Apple PowerBook G4 with the FireWire800 port built in, and two or three FW800 HDs daisy chained and striped in MacOSX for a real-time throughput of 100MB/S. Thats my dream anyways, I'm stuck with one measly 80-gig FW-400 device which I pitifully tried to partition and stripe
Ahem, ANYWAYS, apart from my new-computer lust this standard rocks. It's spec's set it to max out at 3,200 megabits per second. 3.2 Gb/s !!!!!!! In the next month you'll be able to have a network running at 800Mb/s for a fraction of the cost of gigabit ethernet, and possibly a better architecture with real-time transmission and true peer-peer access. (I don't know all the tech-specs for Gigabit-Ethernet except that it's complicated and I won't see it without some big bucks backing me up). Firewire seems intricately suited to networks, especially with the cable lengths capable of going up to 100 meters. I'm really excited about this because it's been in the pipelines for years and it's always cool to see something actually materialize. Anyways, post back with comments about how you feel this might change the industry and all the technical corrections that I'm sure I'll need.
cheers, a firewire enthusiast.
Ahem, ANYWAYS, apart from my new-computer lust this standard rocks. It's spec's set it to max out at 3,200 megabits per second. 3.2 Gb/s !!!!!!! In the next month you'll be able to have a network running at 800Mb/s for a fraction of the cost of gigabit ethernet, and possibly a better architecture with real-time transmission and true peer-peer access. (I don't know all the tech-specs for Gigabit-Ethernet except that it's complicated and I won't see it without some big bucks backing me up). Firewire seems intricately suited to networks, especially with the cable lengths capable of going up to 100 meters. I'm really excited about this because it's been in the pipelines for years and it's always cool to see something actually materialize. Anyways, post back with comments about how you feel this might change the industry and all the technical corrections that I'm sure I'll need.
cheers, a firewire enthusiast.
