Investment Protection - Compaq ProLiant 1000 White Paper

The Benefits of PCI Hot Plug Technology
generation PCI Hot Plug features to Pentium II Xeon Models of the ProLiant 7000 announced
in June 1998. With these servers, Compaq once again set the standard in improved higher
availability and fault-tolerant solutions for the distributed enterprise.
Provided PCI Hot Plug technology for future certain Alpha-based product lines

Investment Protection

PCI Hot Plug technology is compatible with previous PCI standards; therefore, any new hot-plug
system hardware, OSs, or adapters are PCI-compliant and will work with existing PCI-compliant
systems. (See Figure 5). The entire system does not need to be overhauled just because certain
components are hot-plug capable. Since no hardware changes are required for the vast majority
of the installed base of PCI adapters, customer investment protection is assured through backward
compatibility.
Figure 5. Due to the backward compatibility of the standard, PCI Hot Plug technology protects the
installed base of over 100 million PCI adapters in use today.
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Adapter Investment Protection
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