Firewire

Properly known as P1394. Serial digital bus connector for interconnecting domestic units, sometimes known of as firewire and ultimately likely to replace the function of the SCART socket in analogue. The proper name for P1394 is IEE High Performance Serial Bus. P1394 has been chosen by the DVB Multimedia Home Platform Committee for interconnection of digital equipments in the future home-area network. P1394 defines the physical layer. The transport layer is likely to be ATM.