What kind of bridging work is now underway to enable the use of 1394 in networking applications?
The 1394.1 standard was published in 2005, and it defines a bus bridge that can connect two (or more) 1394 busses, allowing the use of greater distances and more than 63 nodes, with improved performance due to the isolation of traffic as appropriate between busses. For Internet Protocol (IP) applications, no bridging is required. IEEE 1394 can directly support IPv4 and IPv6 networking, and can optionally be bridged to other IP networks such as Ethernet and WiFi.
