FireWire isn't related to Fibre Channel in any way, other than serving some similar needs. Fibre Channel was invented by the large storage companies to be a extremely high speed interface to peripheral devices, without any cost compromise. It is/was intended to replace mainframe "channel" peripheral interfaces. The link technology that Fibre Channel invented was reused by Gigabit Ethernet, with Ethernet framing rather than FC.
FireWire was invented by Apple, standardized by IEEE as 1394, and called i.Link by Sony. It was invented as a consumer level, high speed interface with optimizations for audio/video transport. It's much slower than Fibre Channel, and much much less expensive.
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FireWire isn't related to Fibre Channel in any way, other than serving some similar needs. Fibre Channel was invented by the large storage companies to be a extremely high speed interface to peripheral devices, without any cost compromise. It is/was intended to replace mainframe "channel" peripheral interfaces. The link technology that Fibre Channel invented was reused by Gigabit Ethernet, with Ethernet framing rather than FC. FireWire was invented by Apple, standardized by IEEE as 1394, and called i.Link by Sony. It was invented as a consumer level, high speed interface with optimizations for audio/video transport. It's much slower than Fibre Channel, and much much less expensive.