Unibrain PCI Firewire Card

PCI Firewire Card
FireBoard Blue™ 1394a

FireBoard Blue™ is a fast and reliable digital interface card for all external FireWire-enabled devices. Now, Digital Cameras, Hard Drives, CD/DVD drives and Digital Camcorders can be connected to FireBoard Blue™ in a snap.

FireBoard Blue™ is a 3-port, single chip, OHCI-compliant 1394/FireWire® host adapter for PC systems that provides plug 'n' play connectivity for FireWire® devices and peripherals.

OS Supported : Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003/XP 64 bit Mac OS 9.x/10.x FireBoard Blue Part number: 1203 Kit with 2m 1394a 6pin to 6pin cable FireBoard Blue Part number: 1205 Accessory : The metallic bracket of FireBoard Blue™ can be changed to a low profile size corresponding to 2U height (see image below, right). Low Profile Accessory Part number: 1222	FireBoard Blue™

Unibrain’s FireBoard Blue™ offers the following features: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23, integrated 1394 PHY/Link Controller 3 FireWire ports OHCI compliant/Compatible with any FireWire device or peripheral 400Mbps - up to 50MB/sec data rates Internal power connector Supports repeater functionality Supports 100, 200 and 400 Mbps throughput Enabling data transfer of real time copying for large files using FireNet™ is: Read: 23 Mbps / Write: 25 Mbps Due to its 4 isochronous transmit/receive contexts the FireBoard Blue™ host adapter has the exceptional feature to simultaneously control and display up to 4 FireWire digital cameras	FireBoard Blue ™ with Low Profile Bracket

Gamer's Networking Solution
FireBoard Blue™ is suitable for network applications (gaming or other). Using Unibrain’s FireNet™ Software you can connect two or more PC’s in a peer-to-peer Network at 400Mbps.

External Hard Drive
You can connect a multiple array of external FireWire devices such as CD-R/W or DVD drives easily. Just plug-in any SBP2 FireWire External Hard Drive to the installed FireBoard Blue™ adapter and immediately add storage to your PC. Unibrain’s Fire120™ is the perfect companion for today’s storage-hungry applications, when offered together with FireBoard Blue™. FireBoard Blue™ has been thoroughly tested to operate seamlessly with Unibrain’s entire range of External FireWire Hard Drives as well as any third party external storage devices.

Digital Camera
FireBoard Blue™ can connect up to 4 Digital Cameras in a peer-to-peer topology. Using Unibrain’s Fire-i™ Software you can connect up to 4 Fire-i™ cameras and simultaneously control and display all of them, thus providing the perfect monitoring home/office solution.

Digital Video
Simply connect any DV Camcorder to your PC via Unibrain FireBoard Blue™ Host Adapter. Capture, produce and share your digital video, with any digital video application from your PC. Unibrain’s DV solution (FireDV™) is also based on FireBoard Blue™ Host Adapter.