Patent ID: 8035985

Claim:
Electronic equipment rack, designed to be on board a craft comprising: a mechanical structure, a motherboard having first internal connectors and second internal connectors, at least one function module handling a set of functions via electronic equipment and having internal connectors of the function module enabling interconnection with the first internal connectors of the motherboard, at least one interface module designed to provide an interfacing function between said function module and the rack environment, the interface module being linked to external connectors and having internal interface connectors enabling interconnection with the second internal connectors of the motherboard, said electronic equipment rack also having a front panel corresponding to a side through which the electronic equipment of the function module can be accessed and, opposite, a rear panel, wherein the mechanical structure of the electronic equipment rack comprises a first and a second cabinet, the first cabinet containing the electronic equipment that constitutes the function module, and the second cabinet containing the interface module, and in that the function module and the interface module are juxtaposed in a direction orthogonal to the normal to the front panel, and in that the interface module can also be accessed through the front panel of the rack.