Patent ID: 9710421
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H01R,H05K

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a circuit board; a device located on the circuit board; a first Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) connector located on the circuit board and coupled to the device, the first PCIe connector arranged to couple to a first connector of an additional circuit board; a second PCIe connector located on the circuit board and coupled to the device, the second PCIe connector arranged to couple to a second connector of the additional circuit board; first conductive contacts arranged to couple the device to a first input/output (I/O) connector of the circuit board; and second conductive contacts arranged to couple the device to a second I/O connector of the circuit board, wherein the first conductive contacts are arranged to conduct signals from a first computer network through the first I/O connector, and the second conductive contacts are arranged to conduct signals from a second computer network through the second I/O connector.