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Cabling the Backplane

Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

The Consequences of Getting This Wrong

The tolerances had to be below this 2.9, I believe, gather of the connector in order for us to ensure that we would always make contact. So if these connectors are mismated, basically not plugged all the way in, there is some signal loss. And then we've got a spring system in our connector so that when the connectors crash into each other, the one pair on the rack just floats backwards within the tolerance of the spring. There's kind of some intentional collision there by design, which helps us ensure that we are as mated as possible within that dimension.

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