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Figure 14.17
A beta-to-beta cable (top) compared to bilingual-to-4-pin (middle) and bilingual-to-6-pin
1394a devices (bottom).
1394b S3200 (FireWire 3200)
In December 2007, the 1394 Trade Association announced the 1394b S3200 (FireWire
3200) specification, which quadruples the speed of FireWire to 3.2Gbps (320MBps using
8b/10bencoding).ThenewspeedusesexistingFireWire800cablesandconnectorsandis
backward compatible with both FireWire 800 and the original FireWire 400 specification.
Because the 1394 arbitration, data, and service protocols are the same for S3200 mode as
