The present application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/234,859, filed on Sep. 5, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,910,897 which is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,796, filed on Jan. 7, 2002 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,843,657), which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/260,893 filed on Jan. 12, 2001 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/328,396 filed on Oct. 12, 2001. The disclosures of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety into the present specification.
A modular chassis-based system may include a high speed backplane and multiple line cards. A connector connects the backplane to each line card for greater performance. The connector may include a stripline with a curved portion that transitions from the line cards to the backplane.
