Bustronic releasas PICMG 2.16-compliant backplace. (New Products).Bustronic Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of backplanes, has announced a new PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. 2.16-compliant 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. with dual fabric slots designed to help achieve 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. (HA). The eight-slot Compact Packet Switching A network technology that breaks up a message into small packets for transmission. Unlike circuit switching, which requires the establishment of a dedicated point-to-point connection, each packet in a packet-switched network contains a destination address. backplane (cPSB) has several design features. The Bustronic 108PS2108 features two fabric slots, with the rest of the slots as node slots with the CompactPCI bus and the H.110 bus for computer-telephony. Two fabric slots provide redundancy and help achieve high availability (99.999 percent uptime). The redundant nature of the multiple fabric links across the backplane helps reduce points-of-failure, another step in developing an HA system. The modular backplane's 6/32 power studs were designed to allow Bustronic's power interface boards to be hooked up to the backplane that offers dual-redundant power supply swapping. Intended to help take computer-telephony to higher levels, the backplane has six node slots where the CompactPCIbus can be used as the control plane, while the high-spee d traffic goes across the PSB PSB Pet Shop Boys (band) PSB Public Service Broadcasting (radio and television) PSB Public Service Board (Vermont) PSB Public Security Bureau (China) data plane. The backplane also reserves a plane for telephony per the PICMG H.110 computer-telephony specification 2.5 R1.0. The PICMG 2.16-compliant cPSBs offer one slot that is convertible to a system slot via a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. Enable resistor. With the power studs and power blades dispersed throughout key locations in the backplane, the overall width is a true eight-slot size. (Many CompactPCI backplanes have power bugs on the side of the backplane, adding a slot size of width to the dimensions.) This allows the eight-slot backplane to fit within a 4U horizontal chassis. Bustronic also offers various other styles and configurations of PICMG 2.16-compliant backplanes. www.bustronic,com/510-490-7388 |
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