Abstract:
A telecommunications assembly including a housing and a plurality of modules mounted within the housing. The modules includes a rear face in which is mounted at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the housing are positioned at least one fiber optic adapters. Inserting the module through a front opening of the housing at a mounting location positions the connector of the module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the housing. The adapters within the interior of the housing are mounted to a removable holder. A method of mounting a telecommunications module within a chassis.
Abstract:
A network apparatus for use in an equipment rack configured to store equipment, in vertically displaced equipment positions (90), includes a housing (116) configured to be mounted to the rack (85), wherein the housing (116) extends vertically in the rack to vertically overlap with at least two equipment positions (90), at least one network service device configured to provide at least one of power, console port server (CPS) service, Ethernet service, and user control switching, and network service interfaces (27, 55, 60) connected to the at least one network service device and disposed in substantially horizontal alignment with respective vertically displaced equipment positions (90) of the equipment rack (85).
Abstract:
A bladed architecture, backplane-based network (100) having N payload slots (108) includes an N/2 slot switch module (102), wherein the N/2 slot switch module is reconfigurable to one of a left-hand slot switch configuration (603) and a right-hand slot switch configuration (605), and wherein the N/2 slot switch module is coupled to N/2 of the N payload slots such that the bladed architecture, backplane-based network is in a sub-optimal configuration (601).
Abstract:
A DXS jack module having removable jacks is disclosed. The jack module includes a jack mount for holding the jacks. The jack module also includes a front facing cross-connect array and a front facing IN/OUT array. A circuit board is electrically connected to the arrays. The circuit board includes portions positioned directly behind the cross-connect array the IN/OUT array. A chassis for holding jack modules is also disclosed. The chassis includes a front door having a double hinge configuration.
Abstract:
A telecommunications device including a chassis (52) having a card housing (54) for containing a plurality of splitter cards (55). The card housing (54) includes front (60) and back ends (62). The front end of the card housing defines an access opening for 5 allowing the splitter cards to be inserted into or removed from the card housing. The device also includes a plurality of card edge connectors (97) for providing electrical connections with the splitter cards. The card edge connectors are located within the card housing adjacent to the back end of the housing. Each card edge connector is arranged in a generally horizontal orientation. The device further includes forwardly 10 facing LINE, POTS and DATA connectors that are electrically connected to the card edge connectors. At least the LINE and POTS connectors are positioned in a generally horizontal orientation.
Abstract:
An improved electrical equipment enclosure includes an electrical enclosure, electrical equipment in said electrical enclosure, said electrical equipment including one or more devices requiring a network connection to devices outside of said enclosure, and a network port mounted to said enclosure and accessible from externally of said enclosure and operatively coupled with said equipment requiring a network connection inside of said enclosure, for connecting said equipment with equipment outside of said enclosure.
Abstract:
A splitter assembly (10) is provided that comprises a terminal block (18) for mounting to a main distribution frame (34) and a splitter circuit for combining/splitting POTS signals and xDSL signals onto/from a single wire pair. The terminal block (18) is pivotally mounted to a housing (12) and the splitter circuit is on a card (40) that is located in the housing. The terminal block (18) may be mounted to the same housing (12) that contains the splitter card (40). The POTS line contacts, XDSL line contacts and combined line contacts of the splitter circuit are connected to respective pairs of terminals (26) in the terminal block.