VS-30FW - Overview 5
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3.2 FireWire Compliance
The VS-30FW is based on FireWire which:
Is a serial bus standard that enables quick universal interfacing between
video and computer hardware items
Is simple to use and operates independently of the host system, letting you
connect more items than you otherwise could (as a computer only has limited
ports available), and for extended distances. Several can be cascaded to
create up to a 63 port FireWire Repeater / HUB
In particular, the VS-30FW:
Fully supports the provisions of the IEEE P1394b Revision 1.33+ at 1-Gigabit
signaling rates
Fully supports the provisions of the IEEE 1394-1995 Standard for High
Performance Serial Bus and the P1394a Supplement
Is fully interoperable with FireWire™ and i.LINK™ implementation of IEEE
Std 1394
Provides three fully backward compatible (1394a-2000 fully compliant)
bilingual P1394b cable ports at up to 800 Megabits per second (Mbits/s)
Is fully compliant with OpenHCI requirements
Provides P1394a Fully Compliant Cable Ports at 100/200/400 Megabits per
Second (Mbits/s)
Includes full P1394a support, that is, Connection Debounce, Arbitrated Short
Reset, Multispeed Concatenation, Arbitration Acceleration, Fly-By
Concatenation, Port Disable/Suspend/Resume
Includes Extended Resume Signaling for Compatibility with Legacy DV
Devices