Hi Bernard, The term "monitoring purposes" is a little vague. Do you want to connect a scope to look at the signal quality, or are you trying to monitor the traffic content, say with a logic analyzer or network analyzer? Alan Bernard Harris wrote On 08/12/06 11:36,: >Hello to all, >What is the best way to connect to an existing high-speed signal on a >backplane with minimum disruption, for monitoring purposes ? > > -- Alan Hilton-Nickel Signal Integrity Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc. Netra Systems and Networking Newark, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu