Patent ID: 7706527

Claim:
Interruption device for a communication line, the communication line comprising first and second cables each comprising a first group of wire(s) for the transmission of computer data and a second group of wire(s) independent of said computer data, the interruption device comprising a box provided with first and second input/output sockets with which the first and second cables, respectively, can be connected, one or more interrupters, each connected between the first and second input/output sockets inside the box and actuable from outside the box, this/these interrupter(s) serving to connect/disconnect the wire(s) of the first group of the first cable respectively with/from the wire(s) of the first group of the second cable, and transmission means not comprising an interrupter and each connected between the first and second input/output sockets inside the box, these transmission means serving to connect the wire(s) of the second group of the first cable respectively with the wire(s) of the second group of the second cable.