1394 Goes Wireless - Gigawire
From MacCentral:
The 1394 Trade Association, an organization dedicated to the proliferation of the FireWire standard, announced today that it's passed an important hurdle when it comes to delivering wireless FireWire content. The organization today announced that it would support a content protection scheme employed by leading electronics manufacturers.
The 1394 Trade Association's Wireless Working Group (WWG) is chartered to deliver the industry standard into the wireless domain. Initially, the WWG is working on developing a 1394 Protocol Adaption Layer (PAL) to the IEEE 802.11 standard. 802.11b is commonly used by computer makers for wireless networking, including Apple -- whose AirPort products support the standard.
Today the WWG announced that it has "resolved the issue of commercial entertainment content protection" for devices that employ support for its 1394 PAL for 802.11. WWG chair Steve Bard explained that Digital Transmission Content Protection, or DTCP, is an approved standard for content protection in wired 1394 environments. "The WWG 1394 PAL facilitates the use of data protected by DTCP across 802.11," said Bard.
The news has won approval from the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC (DTLA). Also called "5C," the organization is comprised of electronics giants Hitachi, Sony, Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba, and serves as the licensing arm for their DTCP standard. DTCP helps to protect unauthorized interception and retransmission of digital video and audio content.
Sounds like gigawire is coming!!!!!
The 1394 Trade Association, an organization dedicated to the proliferation of the FireWire standard, announced today that it's passed an important hurdle when it comes to delivering wireless FireWire content. The organization today announced that it would support a content protection scheme employed by leading electronics manufacturers.
The 1394 Trade Association's Wireless Working Group (WWG) is chartered to deliver the industry standard into the wireless domain. Initially, the WWG is working on developing a 1394 Protocol Adaption Layer (PAL) to the IEEE 802.11 standard. 802.11b is commonly used by computer makers for wireless networking, including Apple -- whose AirPort products support the standard.
Today the WWG announced that it has "resolved the issue of commercial entertainment content protection" for devices that employ support for its 1394 PAL for 802.11. WWG chair Steve Bard explained that Digital Transmission Content Protection, or DTCP, is an approved standard for content protection in wired 1394 environments. "The WWG 1394 PAL facilitates the use of data protected by DTCP across 802.11," said Bard.
The news has won approval from the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC (DTLA). Also called "5C," the organization is comprised of electronics giants Hitachi, Sony, Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba, and serves as the licensing arm for their DTCP standard. DTCP helps to protect unauthorized interception and retransmission of digital video and audio content.
Sounds like gigawire is coming!!!!!
Comments
if it isn't 100mb/sec or faster it isn't even worth the trouble.
<strong>now what speeds would this offer?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, I think (correct me if I'm wrong) 802.11b is stuck at 11Mb/s so my take on this is a 802.11b chipset connected to a Firewire device. Since these devices don't need a host, it might be able to use the wireless with ease (I don't really know). Now this could be called Gigawire since its FireWIRE over a GIGAHz signal (2.4GHz to be exact).
Will it be worth the effort? I doubt it, but I'm rarely right so....
Interesting story though.
gigawire should offer power transmission over
the luminiferous 802.11b aether, as well.
or FireAir
or HotAir...
HotAir Balloon data transportaion technology?
HABDTT?
Screed
yet, the marketing would be bad. Smoking is a negative thing in todays society and Fire is good because it give you heat and comfort. Maybe , i dont know,FireWireless
apple would do something better.
Gigawire would not make sense for something that does not have WIRES...apple knows better...iHope at least
This is to protect content carried up from a device via 1394 and then transmitted over WiFi so it can't be captured and saved/watched by someone else (who probably didn't pay for the rights to the content).
This is not wireless FireWire, this is 1394 content (typ. digital video of some sort) that gets transferred over the airwaves via AirPort or WiFi.
AirPort is wireless Ethernet, its not FireWire. Wireless FireWire is something entirely different.