Talk:Backplane

Cleanup
Added the photo of an SBC in a backplane. Cleaned up a bit. Deleted the AMI stuff as not general unbiased information. If AMI desires to put that back, they should mention the myriad other backplane companies. I will when I get the time. Chassisplans 15:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Huh?
Geez, if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, just baffle 'em with BS. Terry Yager (talk) 00:17, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Number of slots
The article states as limit on slot count "... 20, including the SBC slot, as a practical though not an absolute limit." While I, too, recall 20 as a typical number, this should be replaced by some sourced and timelined market overview. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 12:19, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Midplane backplane
The chapter Butterfly Backplanes introduces the term midplane backplane. That thing should be explained somewhere. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 12:23, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Tomdo08 that "midplane" should be described in more detail in this article. So I restored the "Midplane" section that was deleted without explanation.

I found some good references for "orthogonal midplane" and "virtual midplane" and added them to this article.

What, exactly, is the difference (if any) between a "butterfly backplane" and a "midplane"?

What other kinds of midplane should be mentioned? --DavidCary (talk) 19:23, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Architecture
The definition seems to be not entirely correct. It is definitely not properly catching usage of that word. IMHO the most basic definition would be "board for the connection of other boards". The given definition would be a derivation of that in some but not all circumstances. One example is the image, which depicts an active backplane with several different bus systems. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 12:32, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

A mess
This article is full of fractured, orphan sentences. "To transmit information Serial Back-Plane technology uses a low voltage differential signaling transmission method for sending information" is one example, it doesn't fit into the article around it, has no context given, and isn't necessarily true.

The article looks like someone took a first-year college student's assignment and a couple of IBM and DEC marketing brochures from the 80s, and fed them into a shredder, with Wikipedia somehow taped onto the bin underneath.

The article as-is would be better replaced by 3 or 4 general-purpose, accurate sentences. Even a dictionary definition. As it is it's worse than useless, confusing, and de-educational. If anyone qualified wants to put the effort in, I'm sure posterity would thank you. If not I might just zap the whole thing and write the 3 or 4 lines I mention myself.

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