| 摘要 |
The invention refers to a telecommunications system comprising a module rack that defines a core bay, a service plane and a rack interface plane where the service plane is transverse to the rack interface plane. The core bay is in part bounded by the service plane and the rack interface plane. The telecommunications system also comprises a series of electronics modules each defining an electronics orientation plane where each of the modules includes two opposed cooling surfaces oriented substantially parallel to the electronics orientation plane. Each of the electronics modules is removably secured within the core bay. The series of the electronics modules forms an array such that their electronics orientation planes are substantially perpendicular to both the rack interface plane and the service plane. The array also defines at least one coolant stream passage across each cooling surface. Further the telecommunications system includes a coolant movement means for moving a coolant through the coolant stream passages and across the rack interface plane. As such, the coolant convects heat away from the cooling surfaces of electronics modules more efficiently and effectively than found in the prior art as it, amongst other things, shortens the distance over which the inlet coolant is required to travel to cool the same functional density and provides a coolant to the passage at approximately a uniform temperature for each module.
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