ProLiant BL p-Class server blades slide into a server blade enclosure for power and data connections. Each server blade enclosure has eight server blade bays and two interconnect bays. The outermost interconnect bays support both patch panel or interconnect switch options for network cable management.The server blade enclosure provides enhanced backplane components which offer some important benefits including: support for the BL30p double-density server blade and all current and future BL20p series and BL40p series blades; up to 16-to-1 network cable consolidation for all server blade Integrated Lights-Out network connections.