The backplane sounds interesting.
I’m guessing it doesn’t facilitate card-to-card data transfer (using something like a virtual NIC) since you’ve got everyone going to it’s own switch port (also a guess on my part)?
It seems like if you can use the backplane’s bus to update firmware, it might be able to move other data?
No matter how you slice it, this is pretty cool.
Very interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply. What a cool idea!