IEEE 1394b Fire Wire cables by Cables To Go are the latest in Fire Wire technology. IEEE 1394b or Fire Wire 800 cables are perfect for connecting your Fire Wire 1394b devices to your legacy 1394a ports. This cables is backwards compatible ensuring continued use of your digital video camcorders, scanners, printers, video conferencing cameras & fixed-disk drives. 1394b is the standard for transporting & networking multiple types of digital data between users & systems. With Windows Me or Apple's Fire Wire Target Disk Mode you can also use an IEEE-1394b cable to connect two computers together to allow for file sharing.