If you are familiar with names “IEEE 1394,” “Sony i.Link” or “Lynx,” you probably already are familiar with “FireWire” whether you know it or not. The terms are more or less interchangeable, with the former serving as the official title of the technology. What FireWire boils down to is a basic connection between separate apparatuses enabling them to quickly and effectively communicate and share information. Originally created by Apple in 1995, from a technical standpoint the IEEE1394 technology is a serial bus interface standard, sending data one bit at a time in sequential order as opposed to parallel communication, in which multiple data bits are sent simultaneously or in a link between several parallel channels.
