Use this FireWire (IEEE 1394) cable to connect a FireWire device to your PC. Provides a male 4-pin FireWire connector at one end and a male 6-pin FireWire connector at the other. A high-speed serial bus that allows for the connection of up to 63 devices. Also known as the IEEE 1394 standard, the i.Link connector and the High Performance Serial Bus, the first version of FireWire supported 100, 200 and 400 Mbits/sec transfer rates and a distance of 4.5 meters between devices. IEEE 1394b provides 800, 1,600 and 3,200 Mbps speeds, increases cable distance to 100 meters and can use glass or plastic fiber and Cat 5 Ethernet cable. Easily extends to over 42" by pulling both ends. Simply pull again and it quickly retracts back into its housing. It is a personal computer serial bus interface standard, for high-speed communications real-time data transfer, it is similar to USB but about 20 times faster.
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