Network switch with increased rear port density for pluggable transceivers
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPadmanabhan Narayanan, Shree Rathinasamy, Robert Neal Beard
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Abstract
A network switch including a motherboard that includes at least one pair of rear ports disposed at a rear thereof, the at least one pair of rear ports including a left rear port and a right rear port. The network switch further including at least one fan slot disposed behind the motherboard and through which the at least one pair of rear ports is accessible. Also proposed are a fan module design that can accommodate the cables from the at least one pair of rear ports, as well as an air dam base design for thermal sealing.
Claims20
A network switch, comprising:
- a motherboard, comprising:
- at least one pair of rear ports disposed at a rear thereof, and comprising:
- a left rear port and a right rear port;
- and
- at least one fan slot disposed behind the motherboard and through which the at least one pair of rear ports is accessible.
A method for transforming an air dam base into a cable sealed, top and bottom plugged air dam base, the method comprising:
- inserting an air dam base bottom half plug into the air dam base to obtain a bottom plugged air dam base;
- routing a transceiver cable through the bottom plugged air dam base to obtain a cable routed, bottom plugged air dam base;
- and
- inserting an air dam base top half plug into the cable routed, bottom plugged air dam base to obtain the cable sealed, top and bottom plugged air dam base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.