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Who are Westek?
Westek manufactures a wide range of robust and
reliable 19” rack mount computer and storage platforms designed for
applications in mission critical and general IT environments
such as Telecoms, COTs military, Digital Video processing
and storage, and applications where fault resilience and high
availability are of paramount importance. Our platforms range form low-cost 1U server appliance to
high availability compactPCI platforms, high performance storage
solutions and systems integration services.
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What is a Passive Backplane?
A technology where all of the active circuitry
that is normally found on an "active" PC motherboard
(such as the CPU) is moved onto a plug-in card (SBC). The
motherboard itself is replaced with a passive backplane usually
with many more expansion slots for add in cards, with a minimum
of active components. Passive backplanes are therefore very
reliable and offer high capacity and high slot
density A passive
backplane has several advantages including the ease with which
cards can be added and removed from the computer system:
Passive backplanes are available from 2 to 21 ISA and/ or PCI
slots.
What is an SBC?
(Single Board Computer)
An SBC is essentially a plug-in
"motherboard" that simply plugs into slot on a passive backplane. The
SBC contains the CPU, memory and optional SVGA, LAN and SCSI or
IDE disk interfaces. An SBC is a single board plug-in computer
and will usually occupy just one system slot on a passive
backplane.
What is
CompactPCI?
The newest specification for PCI-based
industrial computers is called CompactPCI. It is electrically a
superset of desktop PCI with a different physical form factor.
CompactPCI utilizes the Eurocard form factor popularized by the
VME bus.
Defined for both 3U (100mm by 160 mm) and 6U
(160mm by 233 mm) card sizes, CompactPCI has the following
features:
Standard Eurocard Dimensions (complies with IEEE 1101.1
mechanical standards) |
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High Density 2mm Pin-and-Socket Connectors (IEC approved
and Bellcore qualified) |
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Vertical Card Orientation for good cooling |
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Positive Card Retention |
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Excellent Shock and Vibration Characteristics |
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Metal Front Panel |
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User I/O Connections on Front or Rear of module |
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Standard Chassis available from many Suppliers |
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Uses Standard PCI Silicon Manufactured in Large Volumes |
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Staged Power Pins for Hot Swap Capability (Future) |
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Eight Slots in Basic Configuration. Easily expanded with
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What are your
leadtimes?
We aim to deliver all orders within 1-2
weeks for standard products. Special and customised systems are
business as usual for Westek and the lead time for these maybe
longer.
What about
support
As a Westek customer you
have free access to our
helpdesk by telephone or email, operating between 8.30am to 6pm
on working days, Monday to Friday. We offer a wide range of
enhanced support services including on site support and 7 x 24
emergency on site services.
How are products
tested
Quality is of
paramount importance at Westek. As part of our ISO9000 qulaity
process, all system level products are subject to a documented
final test procedure, which includes full operational testing
using a computer diagnostic software program, and a full 72 hour
active burn in to eliminate any early life failures from our
products. A copy of the test results is shipped with each
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