Julien Facktolini

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FireWire is a high performance networking standard based on a serial bus architecture.  In 1995 the industry created the IEEE 1394 FireWire standard. The adoption of FireWire has been slow, but many people use FireWire today to network their digital video cameras with their computers. FireWire theoretically supports networking of any computer peripherals and does not require a central computer be present on the network.

FireWire is known for its low cost and also ease of setup and use. FireWire competes with and is technically similar to the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard. FireWire supports a theoretical maximum data rate of 400 Mbps, that is roughly equivalent to the performance of USB 2.0.