Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Andrew Charles Crain

Noah Thomas Kelly

Roey Rivnay

Alaa Adel Mahdi Hayder

William Mark Megarity

Joel Crain

Kipper Dale Seljestad

Timothy Allan Pizzino

Alyssa Nicole Benninger

Chen Zhuang

A rack-wall computing and/or data storage system includes computing and/or storage devices mounted in enclosures; the enclosures are also mounted in one or more device chassis that fit into one or more vertical slots of an open-faced mounting structure. The mounting structure is free of vertical or horizontal supports on a front side, which allows for a greater density of enclosures (and therefore computing or storage devices) to be mounted in a given volume of space, as compared to conventional racks that include vertical supports at repeating intervals (e.g., every 24 inches). Also, a given device chassis can be extracted from the mounting structure, via the open front face, using a rail system, wherein in the extracted position, the enclosures are accessible for servicing on at least two sides (e.g., front and back).

Compute and/or storage rack-wall

A rack may include a frame having vertical uprights and transverse members coupled together so as to form boundaries of an internal volume of the rack. The boundaries may include a first lateral face, a second lateral face, a front face, and a back face. A cartridge can be installed forward or rearward of the front face and laterally inward from the first lateral face or the second lateral face. Cables may be connected between the cartridge and a plurality of appliances. The cables may include a first cable extending between the cartridge and a first appliance supported by the rack. The cables may further include a second cable extending between a second appliance and the cartridge so as to establish a signal path between the first appliance and the second appliance through the first cable, the cartridge, and the second cable.

Cartridge for interconnectivity among rack-mounted computing components

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Everett, WA, United States of America

Andrew Charles Crain