Firmly established in telecom, backplane-based systems are now taking hold in computer server design as well. Backplanes bring the benefits of dense yet flexible systems, but they also carry their own ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — As the first generation of a new class of Web servers rolls, a standards debate is brewing over its key interconnect technology. At issue is what will become the backplane for ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

Blade servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...