Juniper Networks, Inc.

Troy M Sheets

Jaspal S Gill

David Keith Owen

Bharani Chadalavada

Truman Joe

Daniel Lewis Kline

Barun Kar

Geetha Ramaian

Susheela Nanjunda Rao Narasimhan

Seongchul C Kim

Luis Zamora

Terence H Ng

Basavaraja Munishamappa

Cetin Diken

The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a ganged heatsink base that (A) absorbs heat dissipated by a plurality of electronic components that consume differing amounts of power and (B) includes a plurality of thermal regions dedicated to absorbing the heat dissipated by the plurality of electronic components and (2) at least one thermal isolation engine that (A) is incorporated into the ganged heatsink base, (B) separates the plurality of thermal regions from one another, and (C) localizes the heat dissipated by the plurality of electronic components by maintaining at least some of the heat dissipated by one of the electronic components within the thermal region that absorbed the at least some of the heat such that the at least some of the heat does not migrate to another thermal region included in the ganged heatsink base. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Apparatus, system, and method for decreasing heat migration in ganged heatsinks

The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a switch-fabric circuit board that includes at least one switch-fabric circuit that facilitates communicative connectivity between packet forwarding engines within a rackmount network device and (2) a plurality of optic circuit boards that are each communicatively connected to the switch-fabric circuit board. In this example, the optic circuit boards may include a plurality of packet forwarding engines that are communicatively connected to one another via the switch-fabric circuit and a plurality of communication ports that are each communicatively connected to at least one of the packet forwarding engines. In addition, the switch-fabric circuit board may reside between at least two of the optic circuit boards within the rackmount network device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating increased data transmission speeds in size-constrained rackmount network devices

A device may include a plurality of direct current to direct current (DC/DC) converters that may produce voltages, and a first device that may receive a signal from a second device on a removable module when the removable module is coupled to the device. The first device may produce, based on the signal, an instruction related to one or more voltages associated with the removable module. The instruction may cause a first DC/DC converter and a second DC/DC converter, of the plurality of DC/DC converters, to power up at different times based on a particular sequence, and generate the one or more voltages. The particular sequence may be based on the signal. The first device may cause the one or more voltages, generated by the first DC/DC converter and the second DC/DC converter, to be provided to the removable module.

Adaptive power architecture for electronic modules

A system may include a module that includes a component, a logic device to provide an instruction on behalf of the component, and control logic to generate a desired output voltage signal in response to a constant current, where the desired output voltage signal indicates a determined voltage that the component is configured to operate with when performing an operation. The system may include a board that includes a power supply to produce the determined voltage based on the instruction, and an interface to couple the determined voltage to the component to allow the component to perform the operation on behalf of the board, send the constant current to the control logic, and receive the desired output voltage signal from the control logic.

Adaptive power architecture for hot-swappable electronic modules

A device comprises a programmable communication interface and a processor. The programmable communication interface communicates data via a set of signals. The processor configures the programmable communication interface to communicate the data in accordance with a programmed override state for at least one of the signals and actual states for the remaining signals. The programmable communication interface may be configured, for example, to programmably treat an overridden signal as asserted or de-asserted regardless of actual voltages present on one or more electrical connectors associated with the overridden signal. As a result, incorrectly wired electrical connectors of the programmable communication interface may be programmably overridden. Consequently, a technician need not manually rewire the programmable communication interface.

Programmable communication interface

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Troy M Sheets