IEEE-1394b Firewire cameras for machine vision

Firewire-b - Double Bandwidth - easy to Use
The IEEE 1394b standard was recently introduced in the industrial camera market. The standard allows compliant devices to transfer data at 800 Mbit/s. Yet IEEE 1394b cameras are fully backward compatible with IEEE 1394a devices.

IEEE 1394b bus features in detail are:
A data rate of up to 800 Mbit/s
The same benefits as 1394a (see above)
Full backward compatibility with IEEE 1394a devices

The Scout family continues Basler's sucess with Firewire interface and takes it to a new level of performance. Firewire, also know as IEEE-1394, has become a standard image data and camera command transmission mechanism in the machine vision industry. Its key benefit is real time communication between your camera and remote computer. The scout family breaks the existing 400MBit/s data rate limitation of Firewire-a and offers up to 800Mbit/sec as specified by Firewire-b. this means that Scout cameras can provide maximum performance in terms of frame rate and bit depth compared to cameras limited by the Firewire-a data rate. In addition, Firewire integration is easy, cost-effective and standardised. its supports plug-and-play and there is no need for frame grabbers. The Scout family is also backwards compatible with Firewire-a

Technical Note: IEEE 1394 (Firewire for Industrial Cameras