Patent ID: 7915544

Claim:
An outside plant telecommunications housing and having a rectangular configured housing wall and forming an enclosure, a single printed circuit board supported within a first portion of the enclosure and a second remaining portion forming a cable storage area to store accumulated cable, and further comprising an opening at the cable storage area for allowing a bundle of communications conductors pre-terminated with one or more end connectors to pass through a wall of the housing and secured onto said printed circuit board, and a cable seal for attaching to said opening to seal said bundle of communications cables to said housing to prevent the ingress of environmental elements into the housing through said opening, and further comprising a locking nut that secures the cable seal to the housing at the opening and an O-ring secured by the locking nut to seal the bundle of communications connectors at the housing in a watertight manner, and further comprising a dome-nut configured to aid in securing the cable seal to the housing.