Patent ID: 7509015

Claim:
A secure network cassette assembly, comprising: (i) a cabinet having a front side and a rear side, wherein each of said front side and rear side is adapted to be locked; (ii) a cassette tray adapted to slide back and forth within said cabinet and hold a plurality of cassettes inserted into two or more open slots of a front patch panel disposed at the front side of the cabinet, and at least one panel blank; (iii) at least one cassette defining a hole adapted to allow for an insert pin to pass through said cassette and engage said cassette tray; (iv) at least one limiter inside said cabinet adapted to engage said cassette tray, the at least one limiter further adapted to prevent the cassette tray from sliding to a position where a user has rear access to the plurality of cassettes from the front side of the cabinet when the at least one limiter is engaged with the cassette tray; wherein the at least one panel blank covers one or more open slots in the front patch panel not holding a cassette, to prevent the user from having rear or internal access to the plurality of cassettes from the front side of the cabinet when the at least one limiter is engaged with the cassette tray; wherein the cabinet is configured and dimensioned to not allow the user to have access to the at least one limiter from the front side of the cabinet when the at least one limiter is engaged with the cassette tray: and wherein after the user disengages the at least one limiter from the cassette tray, the user may slide the cassette tray to a position where the user has rear access to the plurality of cassettes from the front side of the cabinet.