Patent ID: 9274300
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. An equipment enclosure used in indoor equipment bays that holds in place within its interior a multiplicity of box shaped modular containers with outside dimensions of approximately 3 inches by 5 inches by ½ inch that are organized in rows and columns and that may be stacked in multiple layers to efficiently fill the available space such that: (a) the optical components in one or more of the modular containers are any combination of optical taps, arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs), optical splitters, and/or optical switches, (b) the above optical components are connected with single fiber cable or multi-fiber ribbon cable pig-tails that extend beyond the individual modular containers and terminate with single-fiber or multi-fiber optical connectors that are secured on the front panel of the equipment enclosure, (c) at least two rows of module containers run between the front and rear panels of the equipment enclosure in which one of the at least two rows of modular containers is located on the right-hand side of the equipment enclosure and another row is located on the left-hand side of the equipment enclosure, and (d) there is sufficient space between adjacent rows of modular containers to serve as a channel(s) to contain and guide the multi-fiber ribbon pig-tails emanating from the modular containers so that the pig-tails can be terminated with optical connectors on the front panel of the equipment enclosure with minimum bend radii of at least one inch for the entire lengths of the ribbon pigtails.