card cage

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card cage

[′kärd ‚kāj]

(electronics)

A rack built into a computer to hold printed circuit boards and allow them to be installed or removed easily.

card cage

An enclosure into which printed circuit boards (cards) are inserted. The cage may be exposed to the outside for quick insertion and removal of cards, or it may reside behind a door or inside a larger cabinet.

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Side-to-side cooling is achieved via a plug-in fan tray with dual 170 cfm fans with PWM (pulse width modulation) control on each side of the card cage. The redundant push/pull configurations of the fans offer higher levels of reliability.

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Dual fan trays with 4X 150 cfm fans are below the card cage and 1X fans in additional trays above the card cage.