A network device, of the modular frame type, including: - a plurality of removable blades, each blade comprising means adapted to deliver blade information relating to state data or to electrical or physical parameters measured or detected on the blade; - a motherboard receiving the blades and including a network ling routing adapted to couple the blades to each other; - power supply and ventilation blocks; - a general control board, adapted to: · control the power supply and ventilation blocks, and · deliver frame information relating to state data or electric or physical parameters measured or detected on the frame; - a serial bus, configured on the motherboard and coupled to each of the blades, this bus being a bus dedicated to the reception and diffusion of said blade information and frame information; and - frame management means, adapted to: · collect on the bus said blade information and frame information, and · produce management commands for one or several of said blades and/or for the general control board; characterized in that: - the blades mounted on the motherboard are all productive blades of the server blade type; - the frame is devoid of blade(s) dedicated to the interconnection of the network links between the other blades of the device; and - said frame management means are distributed over the N blades according to a non-hierarchized point-to-point configuration, each of the N blades comprising means adapted to: · analyse said blade information and/or frame information collected on the bus, and · based on this analysis, generate, if need be, at least one of said management commands and to apply it to the bus for diffusion to one or several of the other blades and/or to the general control board. - a plurality of removable blades, each blade comprising means adapted to deliver blade information relating to state data or to electrical or physical parameters measured or detected on the blade; - a motherboard receiving the blades and including a network ling routing adapted to couple the blades to each other; - power supply and ventilation blocks; - a general control board, adapted to: · control the power supply and ventilation blocks, and · deliver frame information relating to state data or electric or physical parameters measured or detected on the frame; · control the power supply and ventilation blocks, and · deliver frame information relating to state data or electric or physical parameters measured or detected on the frame; - a serial bus, configured on the motherboard and coupled to each of the blades, this bus being a bus dedicated to the reception and diffusion of said blade information and frame information; and - frame management means, adapted to: · collect on the bus said blade information and frame information, and · produce management commands for one or several of said blades and/or for the general control board; characterized in that: - the blades mounted on the motherboard are all productive blades of the server blade type; - the frame is devoid of blade(s) dedicated to the interconnection of the network links between the other blades of the device; and - said frame management means are distributed over the N blades according to a non-hierarchized point-to-point configuration, each of the N blades comprising means adapted to: · analyse said blade information and/or frame information collected on the bus, and · based on this analysis, generate, if need be, at least one of said management commands and to apply it to the bus for diffusion to one or several of the other blades and/or to the general control board. · collect on the bus said blade information and frame information, and · produce management commands for one or several of said blades and/or for the general control board; - the blades mounted on the motherboard are all productive blades of the server blade type; - the frame is devoid of blade(s) dedicated to the interconnection of the network links between the other blades of the device; and - said frame management means are distributed over the N blades according to a non-hierarchized point-to-point configuration, each of the N blades comprising means adapted to: · analyse said blade information and/or frame information collected on the bus, and · based on this analysis, generate, if need be, at least one of said management commands and to apply it to the bus for diffusion to one or several of the other blades and/or to the general control board. · analyse said blade information and/or frame information collected on the bus, and · based on this analysis, generate, if need be, at least one of said management commands and to apply it to the bus for diffusion to one or several of the other blades and/or to the general control board.