CompactPCI is attractive to industrial applications, such as high-speed
telecom and datacom systems for 3 reasons:
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CompactPCI has an extremely high bandwidth; this makes it
particularly well suited for applications such as servers, routers,
converters and switches.
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CompactPCI boards are inserted/removed from the front of the
chassis, and I/O can break out either from the front or through the
rear; this feature is well suited for industrial use where
insertion/removal is a common routine.
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The Hot Swap feature supported by the CompactPCI hardware
specifications makes it possible to insert or remove circuit boards to
or from a running system without causing damage to the other boards or
crashing system software, thus enabling the system to be up and running
while hardware is being replaced, maintained or upgraded.
