Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

The CS383’s eight-drive, hot-swappable backplane makes its potential use as a massive network attached storage (NAS) chassis a given, but then there's the rest of the case: NAS systems don’t often ...

It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

High-speed interconnects may be used to link chips, boards or systems. The distance between target devices is the major difference. Chip-to-chip interconnects normally span less than 20 inches, are ...

The problem of persistent and reliable storage plagues us all. There are a myriad of solutions, some more expensive than others, but a dedicated and redundant network attached storage solution is ...

The I-Trac™ Backplane Connector System from Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX and MOLXA) features a broadside-coupled, skew-equalized design that handles speeds up to 12.5+ Gbps. It offers multiple ...

You know what no one wants to do? Join a brand’s standalone social network. The problem is that it took Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane four years, multiple founders, and over $14 million to figure that ...

Just when things were starting to look up in Silicon Valley with the announcement of 2016’s first tech I.P.O., another start-up has met its demise. Backplane, the Lady Gaga–backed and promoted ...

A common method to increase the brightness of OLEDs while maintaining a long lifespan is the use of multiple stacked OLEDs. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have ...

“Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the weight of its own early buzz. Lady Gaga’s social network ...