In today’s plug-and-play architecture,OEMs design their products to be field-serviceable and fieldreplaceable in order to maximize the “up time” of their products. The drive for reliability also means that in power backplane applications, dual redundant power supplies are often used. Products such as telecommunications circuits for wide area networks, disk drives in Redundant Array of Integrated Discs (RAID) systems, and multiple server platforms are becoming “mission critical” items for businesses.