IEEE 1394b Fire Wire cables by Cables To Go are the latest in Fire Wire technology. IEEE 1394b or Fire Wire 800 provides transfer speeds up to a blazing 800 Mbps! This is twice the speed of the original 1394 standard. 1394b is a must-have for transporting & networking multiple types of digital data between users & systems. Digital video camcorders, scanners, printers, video conferencing cameras & fixed-disk drives can all share a common bus connection to one PC, as well as to each other. With Windows Me or Apple's Fire Wire Target Disk Mode you can use an IEEE-1394b cable to connect two computers together to allow for file sharing.