Compounds. There are more carbon compounds than there are compounds of all other elements combined. The study of carbon compounds, both natural and synthetic, is called organic chemistry. Plastics, foods, textiles, and many other common substances contain carbon.
backplane is the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch switch fabric is also the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch and can also be the shared capacity between interfaces on multiple switches using some sort of interconnect, typically vendor specific.
SATA RAID Backplane Cages. A RAID cage is an internal multi-bay backplane module designed to hold hard drives in a removable configuration. Hot-swap RAID operation requires a RAID controller card. Advantages include easy swapping of hard drives upon failure, easy data transfer and backup using multiple hard drives, ability to mount more hard drives in fewer bays and good cooling.