Patent ID: 6600107
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: H02B,H04Q

Abstract:
A rack suitable for housing connections of cables in a telecommunications or data communications network, the rack including a plurality of cable guides and a plurality of cable guide mountings at each of which the cable guides are capable of being mounted, wherein the cable guides are arranged to be detachably mountable at the plurality of cable guide mountings, are able to be detached and attached without the use of tools, and each of the cable guides includes a mounting portion for engagement with a respective cable guide mounting, a guiding portion providing one or more guide surfaces for a cable, and a cable retaining portion at the opposite end of the guiding portion to the mounting portion, the cable retaining portion projecting laterally outwardly from the guiding portion substantially further in one or more directions than in other directions and including a cylindrical part that is fitted over or into the end of the guiding portion and is rotatably mounted on the guiding portion.