Patent ID: 11874517
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A telecommunications enclosure comprising:
a housing defining an interior, the housing including a first side;
a plurality of fiber optic adapters positioned at the first side of the housing, the fiber optic adapters having ruggedized outer ports fixed relative to the first side of the housing and accessible from outside the housing at the first side of the housing;
a fiber optic cable that enters the interior of the housing at a cable entrance/exit location that is not located at the first side, the fiber optic cable being routed along a path extending along an exterior of the housing from the cable entrance/exit location to the first side;
wherein the fiber optic cable includes a fiber optic input cable having at least one optical fiber coupled to at least one ruggedized first de-mateable optical connection location corresponding to at least one of the fiber optic adapters; and
an output stub cable having one or more optical fibers and having a free end positioned outside the housing that is connectorized by a hardened fiber optic connector, the output stub cable entering the interior of the housing at a cable entrance/exit location and being routed along the path extending along an exterior of the housing from the cable entrance/exit location to the first side such that the free end of the output stub cable is accessible at the first side of the housing.