want to know about a firewire 1394 ieee

[goat_roper_me]

Iam neading more usb ports and i found this one on ebay
>>(8 Ports PCI USB 2.0 Firewire 1394 IEEE Combo Card 5 + 3)<<
FEATURES
USB 2.0 4 external ports + 1 internal port
Firewire IEEE 1394 2 external ports + 1 internal port
Two VIA Chipset
USB 2.0 Compliant with USB Specification Revision 2.0
Hot-Swappable and real Plug&Play capability
Connects up to 127 devices in a tiered star configuration
Support high-speed 480 Mbps, full-speed 12Mbps and low-speed 1.5 Mbpd data transfer rate.
Support USB 2.0 devices and fully backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices
Easy plug and play connectivity and setup
32-bit 33Mhz host interface compliant to PCI Specification release 2.2
Supprt all USB compliant devices
Firewire IEEE 1394
Compliant with IEEE 1394 OHCI Specification Revision 1.0
Compliant with IEEE 1394-1995, P 1394a (rev.1.1) and OHCI specification 1.0
Supports serial bus data transfer rates of 100, 200 and 400Mbps
32-bit DMA channels for physical memory read/write
Connect upto 63 devices
Support DV cameras, DVD Players, Digital cameras, Scanners etc...

But i dont know what the >>(Firewire 1394 IEEE)<< dose. I do know what the usb dose can any one help me thank you

[snooker]

Hi ... See if this helps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire

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