CAT5 Repeater-400™

Unibrain's CAT5 Repeater-400™ provides a low cost solution for extending the firewire bus by using standard CAT-5e (crossover) or CAT-6 type cables.
The transmission speed can reach up to 400 Mbps at maximum length of 70 meters (~ 230 ft). Longer lengths are possible at lower speeds (see the table below).

CAT5 Repeater-400™ is using the new TSB41BA3B 1394b PHY from Texas Instruments and EqCologic's 1394b to UTP cabling equalizer. It is optimized to create long-haul IEEE 1394b-2002 connections over CAT-5 or CAT-6 at the S400 data rate, but it can also be used at S200 and S100.

Main Specifications

Two (2) 1394a (Firewire 400) 6 pin ports operating at 100/200/400 Megabits per Second (Mbits/s)
One (1) UTP RJ45 port.
DC Power connector: Walkman-type 2.0 mm DC Jack (Power supply adapter included with kit)
Power Input Range: DC 8V~30V, max. 1.35A.
Full Duplex Data Rate at 100/200/400 Mbps.
Fully Interoperable With Firewire, SB1394, and i.LINK Implementation of IEEE Std 1394.
Operating temperature: 0' - 60' C.
Mechanical dimensions: 112 x 62 x 22 mm (or 112 x 72 x 22 mm, including the firewire ports).

Typical Equalization Performance

1394 Speed	UTP Cable Type
1394 Speed	CAT5e	CAT6
S100	70 m	70 m
S200	70 m	70 m
S400	70 m	70 m

Hardware/Software Support
Any system equipped with Firewire ports. Devices supported: IIDC firewire cameras, SBP2 hard drives, DV camcorders, Firewire networking.

Windows support: 2000/XP/2003/Vista, using Unibrain ubCore 1394b drivers.
Note that with native Windows XP/Vista 1394 drivers performance may be degraded as Microsoft does not support the 1394b standard, yet.
For more information, read here.
Mac OS Support: OS X 10.4 or later

Order Part numbers:

CAT5 Repeater 400™ OEM: 2560
CAT5 Repeater 400™ Kit: 2561
Kit packaging: A pair of CAT5 Repeater400™ repeaters and DC +12V power supplies.