Patent ID: 8155494

Claim:
A cable management panel, comprising: a) a chassis; and b) a drawer slidably mounted to the chassis, the drawer including a front face panel that defines openings and a plurality of angled adapters mounted within the openings, each angled adapter having a first end accessible from an exterior of the drawer and a second end located within an interior of the drawer, the drawer including bulkhead adapter plates that mount within the openings of the front face panel, the bulkhead adapter plates including the plurality of angled adapters; c) wherein the cable management panel accommodates a number of cable routing configurations including a cable entry in combination with any one of three cable exits; i) the cable entry including one of a rear cable entry located at a rear of the chassis and a side cable entry located at a side of the chassis; and ii) the three cable exits including an all leftward facing cable exit defined by leftward angled adapters, an all rightward facing cable exit defined by rightward angled adapters, and a split-front cable exit defined by leftward angled adapters and rightward angled adapters.