High-density switch
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsShree Rathinasamy, Maunish A. Shah
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Abstract
An information handling system may include a processor and a plurality of ports communicatively coupled to the processor, and physically arranged in a first row and a second row at an exterior panel of an enclosure of the information handling system, such that the plurality of ports includes front ports of the first row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on, rear ports of the first row located directly behind the front ports of the first row from a perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on, front ports of the second row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on, and rear ports of the second row located directly behind the front ports of the second row from the perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on.
Claims12
An information handling system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a plurality of ports communicatively coupled to the processor, and physically arranged in a first row and a second row at an exterior panel of an enclosure of the information handling system, such that the plurality of ports includes:
- front ports of the first row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- rear ports of the first row located directly behind the front ports of the first row from a perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- front ports of the second row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- and
- rear ports of the second row located directly behind the front ports of the second row from the perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- wherein the second row comprises a housing for housing the front ports of the second row and the rear ports of the second row, and the housing is mechanically coupled to the enclosure of the information handling system such that the housing is mechanically translatable from a closed position in which the rear ports of the second row are inaccessible to the exterior panel and an open position in which the rear ports of the second row are accessible to the exterior panel.
A method comprising:
- coupling a plurality of ports to a processor;
- physically arranging the plurality of ports in a first row and a second row at an exterior panel of an enclosure of an information handling system comprising the plurality of ports and the processor, such that the plurality of ports includes:
- front ports of the first row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- rear ports of the first row located directly behind the front ports of the first row from a perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- front ports of the second row visible when the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- and
- rear ports of the second row located directly behind the front ports of the second row from the perspective in which the exterior panel is viewed head on;
- and
- mechanically coupling a housing comprising the second row of the plurality of ports to the enclosure of the information handling system such that the housing is mechanically translatable from a closed position in which the rear ports of the second row are inaccessible to the exterior panel and an open position in which the rear ports of the second row are accessible to the exterior panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.