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

Claim 15:
16. 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;
an input cable including one or more optical fibers optically coupled to ruggedized first de-mateable optical connection locations at the fiber optic adapters, wherein drop cables can be optically coupled to the one or more optical fibers via ruggedized fiber optic connectors mated with the ruggedized outer ports; and
a stub cable that enters the housing at a location other than the first side, the stub cable having a free end including a ruggedized second de-mateable optical connection location coupled to at least one of the one or more optical fibers of the input cable, the second de-mateable optical connection location being accessible at the first side of the housing.