Patent ID: 6944383

Claim:
A cable management panel comprising: (a) a chassis having a front, a rear, and opposite sides, one of the opposite sides defining an access location allowing entry of optical fiber cable into an interior of the chassis; (b) a drawer slidably mounted within the chassis, the drawer slidable between a first position with the drawer fully inserted within the chassis toward the chassis rear, and a second position with the drawer extended from the interior of the chassis away from the chassis rear; (c) a cable radius limiter slidably mounted on the drawer and movable from a first position on the drawer toward a second position on the drawer; (i) the second position being forward of the first position; (d) a control mechanism to move the radius limiter between the first and second positions as the drawer is moved between the second and first positions; (i) the control mechanism moving the radius limiter in synchronized movement with movement of the drawer relative to the chassis; (ii) wherein a slack loop pathway of optical fiber cable is defined within the interior of the chassis, wherein the slack loop pathway extends 180 degrees around the cable radius limiter.