IEEE has approved IEEE 1394 “Standard for High Performance Serial Bus,” offering speeds up to 3.2 Gigabit/second.

Commercially known under the brand names of FireWire (Apple’s name) and
i.LINK (Sony’s name), the IEEE 1394 standard provides specifications
for a high-speed serial bus which supports both asynchronous and
isochronous communication and integrates well with most IEEE standard
32-bit and 64-bit parallel buses.

The 1394-2008 standard also incorporates the complete specifications
for S1600 (1.6 Gigabit/second bandwidth) and for S3200, which provides
3.2 Gigabit/second speeds. The specification, capable of connecting up
to 63 peripherals in a tree topology, is designed to support both hot
swapping and plug-and-play.

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