2004 Kaparel/Rittal Catalog.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WATERLOO, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Kaparel announced today the launch date of their 2004 Electronic Packaging Systems Catalog. Release date set for April 15th, the catalog comes with the amalgamation of Rittal's Ripac division with Kaparel Corporation, a Rittal company in Waterloo, Canada. A full color 260 page catalog provides an updated listing of over 200 electronic packaging products including components, systems and high-speed backplanes. The new Kaparel catalog includes MPS (Microcomputer Packaging Systems) for VMEbus, CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA in standard rack configurations as well as Slim-Box, Ribox and Ripac Vario-Module system enclosures. Tom Sutherland, Kaparel General Manager comments, "The current release of our new catalog shows the commitment to preserve our leadership role to customers and is not just a product listing, but also a great reference tool for system developers." The catalog includes extensive technical information, a CompactPCI backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. look up chart and a part number reference index. The Kaparel/Rittal 2004-2005 catalog will be available in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format on the web at www.kaparel.com, or by email at info@kaparel.com. About Kaparel Kaparel is an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001:2000 registered company that develops, manufactures, and markets electronic packaging solutions and high-speed backplanes to the global Converging Communications market. From its pioneering work in CompactPCI(R) bridge designs, Kaparel has quickly become a leader in many aspects of high-speed backplane architecture technology and has a library of over 500 high-speed custom designs including AdvanceTCA(R). Kaparel's catalog of product includes a complete line of high slot count, hot swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. backplanes and high quality electronic packaging products and services for telecommunications and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. computer manufacturers. Founded in 1996, Kaparel is based in Waterloo, Ontario Coordinates: Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener. - Canada's Technology Triangle and is a part of Rittal International, the world's largest electronic enclosure manufacturer with offices in over 55 countries. |
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