Abstract: A secure storage system may provide secure, portable, and rapidly accessible storage for articles such as firearms. Such a system may have a shell with first and second shell members that can be closed to keep the articles secure, or opened to provide accessibility. A locking mechanism may be used to lock the shell in the closed configuration. The locking mechanism may be controlled by a wireless receiver that receives a signal to unlock the shell. The shell may have a signal-permeable layer that enables the signal to pass through the shell. The first and second shell members may have mounting features that enable articles within the shell to be secured to the shell in a variety of positions and/or orientations. The system may also include a location sensor that detects the location of the shell and notifies the user when the shell is outside an approved zone.

Abstract: A telecommunications device includes a backplane having an associated high availability backplane environment. A transition card coupled to the backplane helps transition a standards-based card supporting a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) administrative bus into the high availability backplane environment. The transition card may also help transition either a Computer Telephony or a Serial Telephony serial data bus into the high availability backplane environment. In a more particular embodiment, the transition card may support a control bus, a synchronization bus, a reset bus, an isolate bus, and a power bus that each support at least one high availability characteristic not associated with the PCI bus. In another more particular embodiment, the transition card may provide at least some redundancy, hot insertion, fault detection, fault isolation, and fault recovery capabilities not associated with the PCI bus.