Volgens bronnen van MacOS Rumors werkt Apple momenteel aan een nieuwe Firewire controller waarmee het mogelijk is om een 100 tot 400Mbps snelle draadloze verbinding aan te leggen middels het Firewire aka IEEE1394 protocol (Firewireless?). De draadloze Firewire controller zal gebruikt worden in de volgende generatie UMA-3 Mac chipsets:
According to Apple sources, the company has begun prototyping a new Firewire controller for the early-developmental UMA-3 universal Mac chipset (designed to be the foundation for G4 and G5 Macs through 2002) that will support wireless connectivity using the Firewire (IEEE 1394b) protocol. This will allow a vast range of devices to communicate with each other over a range of 50-200 feet depending on conditions, with data rates of up to 400Mbps (typical maximum range rate of 150Mbps). The protocol has tremendous potential not only for simplifying transmission of multimedia data, but also networking, storage networks, and many other applications requiring more bandwidth and a more adaptable protocol than AirPort's 802.11 Ethernet p'col.