James Snider Quotes (3 Quotes)

The members of this 2006 board reflect the wide influence and broad applications of the IEEE 1394 standard. We have leadership and representation from a very broad range of markets including consumer electronics, computers, peripherals, audio and industrial. We anticipate a strong year for the standard and excellent leadership from this diverse group.

They were trying to pull the flagpole back off the lines. I heard a loud pop that sounded like a firecracker, and I went running because the power lines fell. They were both lying on the ground, and two women were trying to get to them to get them away from the wires.

The announcement from Northrop Grumman Corporation is the latest in a growing series of successes for 1394 in some very exciting and valuable applications. Their testing program for the polar orbiting satellite system demonstrates the benefits of 1394. These include very high speed data transport, peer-to-peer connectivity which eliminates the need for a central controlling host, flexible topology which makes it easy to add devices on an as needed basis, and efficient allocation of bandwidth which benefits configurations which include a variety of devices with varying throughput needs. These are the attributes of 1394 that continue to move it into new product groups, and we are very pleased to hear of their application in the fault-tolerant chipset for the satellite program.