Patent ID: 6798878
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A passively cooled repeater housing for use in a telecommunication network's wire transmission local loop outside plant to house a plurality of field replaceable, plug-in, standardized repeater modules that generate waste heat and at least one field replaceable, plug-in voltage protector assembly, the repeater housing comprising:an environmental enclosure; a plurality of repeater mounting slots inside the environmental enclosure which removably receive the plurality of repeater modules, wherein at least one repeater module is removable from its corresponding one of the plurality of repeater mounting slots by pulling the at least one repeater module in a first direction; at least one voltage protector assembly mounting slot inside the environmental enclosure which removably receives at least one voltage protector assembly, wherein the at least one voltage protector assembly is removable from its corresponding voltage protector assembly mounting slot by pulling the at least one voltage protector assembly in the first direction; wherein the plurality of repeater mounting slots and the at least one voltage protector assembly slot are disposed and arranged such that a voltage protector assembly is installable and removable from its corresponding voltage protector assembly mounting slot without removal of the repeater module protected by the voltage protector assembly from its corresponding repeater module mounting slot.