Patent ID: 6377469
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
A chassis for a communication system, said chassis comprising a backplane carrying printed interconnects, a plurality of electrical assemblies being introduced by plug-connector systems into said interconnects, each electrical assembly including a printed circuit board, at least one of said electrical assemblies being a process assembly with a processing unit, at least one of said electrical assemblies being a separate bulk storage assembly, a separate data and/or control bus for connecting the processing unit to said at least one bulk storage assembly, said bus having printed interconnects extending from the processing unit via the printed circuit board of the processor assembly and the plug-connector system connected thereto to the backplane and being conducted from the backplane to the bulk storage assembly by a printed circuit board, the bus being connected from the respective processing unit to the backplane being conducted over each of the bulk storage assemblies in the form of a bus loop proceeding at least largely on a respective printed circuit board as a printed interconnect and the respective bulk storage being connected to the bus loop of the bulk storage assembly.