Wireless Firewire
The 1394 Trade Association has approved a specification which would allow the development of wireless Firewire devices.
Examples of new products with the new specification include wireless connections to DVD players and hard drives from set top boxes. Prototype products are expected before the end of the year.
Apple has been an early adopter of Firewire, so adoption of this technology could be expected.
The new Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) for IEEE 1394 over IEEE 802.15.3 was approved Monday. In a statement, the trade association said: The PAL is designed as a standard convergence layer between the 802.15.3 MAC and applications developed for wired 1394. It builds upon the 1394 infrastructure--for example, data formats, connection-management schemes, and time synchronization procedures--and takes advantage of the excellent quality of service available in 802.15.3.
Examples of new products with the new specification include wireless connections to DVD players and hard drives from set top boxes. Prototype products are expected before the end of the year.
Apple has been an early adopter of Firewire, so adoption of this technology could be expected.
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101 months ago
This sure opens up a lot of possibilities!
wont everything have to have its own power supply though??? limiting its possibilities??
101 months ago
what speed can we expect, if FireWire is 400MBs then it should better be closer then farther, otherwise it can be called wireless USB :)
101 months ago
what seepd can we expect, if FireWire is 400MBs then it should better bo closer the farther, otherwise it can bo called wireless USB :)
how about firewireless
101 months ago
I don't see this being AS useful as you might think since you can't transmit power wirelessly, but perhaps you'll be able to get a small power pack that plugs into the device's FireWire port to supply the power. It would be killer for home networks though... and LAN parties!
101 months ago
Why is this being called wireless Firewire? Isn't that kind of an oxy-moron? Why don't they call it "Bluetooth - the useful version" :D
101 months ago
I think this has massive potential for stuff like wireless displays and as someone before said wireless i sights.
Also that would be a decent enough speed to stream music over a network wouldnt it, video even. So options to move into "media centres" connecting stereos and TV's etc to computers wirelessly would be very useful
Also that would be a decent enough speed to stream music over a network wouldnt it, video even. So options to move into "media centres" connecting stereos and TV's etc to computers wirelessly would be very useful
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