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Cabling the Backplane

Oxide and Friends

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How Doug and Team Designed the Gimlet Server Latching System

The Gimlet server latching system on the front has a rotating handle. As you're pushing the server sled into the rack, the cubby,. it actually bottoms out on a welded steel pin before the connectors. The signal in the back of the Gimlet are able to connect to the cable backplane in the rack. So again, not completely bulletproof, but we tried to remove as much of that capacity to occur as possible.

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