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    The document discusses two high-speed serial input/output technologies: FireWire and InfiniBand. FireWire was developed by Apple and adopted as an industry standard, enabling devices like DV camcorders and hard drives. It connects peripherals to computers at speeds up to 800 megabits per second. InfiniBand is aimed at high-end servers and enables remote storage and connections between servers through a fabric of switches.

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    The document discusses two high-speed serial input/output technologies: FireWire and InfiniBand. FireWire was developed by Apple and adopted as an industry standard, enabling devices like DV camcorders and hard drives. It connects peripherals to computers at speeds up to 800 megabits per second. InfiniBand is aimed at high-end servers and enables remote storage and connections between servers through a fabric of switches.

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    1.

    FIREWIRE

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    ___FireWire, originally developed by Apple Computer Inc. is a cross platform
    implementation of the high speed serial data bus defined by the IEEE 1394-1995
    [FireWire 400], IEEE 1394a-2000 [FireWire 800] and IEEE 1394b standards-that
    move large amounts of data between computers and peripheral devices. It features
    simplified cabling, hot swapping and transfer speeds of up to 800 megabits per
    second. FireWire is a high-speed serial input/output (I/O) technology for connecting
    peripheral devices to a computer or to each other. It is one of the fastest peripheral
    standards ever developed and now, at 800 megabits per second (Mbps), its even
    faster.
    Based on Apple-developed technology, FireWire was adopted in 1995 as an
    official industry standard (IEEE 1394) for cross-platform peripheral connectivity. By
    providing a high-bandwidth, easy-to-use I/O technology, FireWire inspired a new
    generation of consumer electronics devices from many companies, including Canon,
    Epson, HP, Iomega, JVC, LaCie, Maxtor, Mitsubishi, Matsushita (Panasonic),
    Pioneer, Samsung, Sony and Texas Instruments. Products such as DV camcorders,
    portable external disk drives and MP3 players like the Apple iPod would not be as
    popular as they are today with-out FireWire. FireWire has also been a boon to
    professional users because of the high-speed connectivity it has brought to audio and
    video production systems. In 2001, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
    presented Apple with an Emmy award in recognition of the contributions made by
    FireWire to the television industry. Now FireWire 800, the next generation of
    FireWire technology, promises to spur the development of more innovative highperformance devices and applications. FireWire800 (an implementation of the IEEE
    1394b standard approved in 2002) doubles the throughput of the original technology,
    dramatically increases the maximum distance of FireWire connections, and supports
    many new types of cabling. This seminar report briefly describes the advantages of
    FireWire 800 and some of the applications for which it is ideally suited.

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    INFINIBAND

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    ___
    InfiniBand is a recent I/O specification aimed at the high-end server market. The first
    version of the specification was released in early 2001 and has attracted numerous
    vendors. The standard describes an architecture and specifications for data flow
    among processors and intelligent I/O devices. InfiniBand has become a popular
    interface for storage area networking and other large storage configurations. In
    essence, InfiniBand enables servers, remote storage, and other network devices to be
    attached in a central fabric of switches and links. The switch-based architecture can
    connect up to 64,000 servers, storage systems, and networking devices. Although PCI
    is a reliable interconnect method and continues to provide increased speeds, up to 4
    Gbps, it is a limited architecture compared to InfiniBand. With InfiniBand, it is not
    necessary to have the basic I/O interface hardware inside the server chassis. With
    InfiniBand, remote storage, networking, and connections between servers are
    accomplished by attaching all devices to a central fabric of switches and links.
    Removing I/O from the server chassis allows greater server density and allows for a
    more flexible and scalable data center, as independent nodes may be added as needed.
    Unlike PCI, which measures distances from a CPU motherboard in centimetres,
    InfiniBands channel design enables I/O devices to be placed up to 17 meters away
    from the server using copper, up to 300 m using multimode optical fiber, and up to 10
    km with single-mode optical fiber. Transmission rates has high as 30 Gbps can be
    achieved.

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