Patent ID: 8678848

Claim:
A data communication module, comprising: module electronics for processing data communication signals; a module housing, the module housing having an elongated rectangular shape elongated in a direction of a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end, the first end of the module housing having a module port for receiving a signal cable plug connector, the second end of the module housing having electrical contacts, the module electronics providing a processing path for the data communication signals between the port and the electrical contacts, the module housing having a slot extending at an oblique angle to the longitudinal axis; a bail mounted to the first end of the module housing through a bail pivot, the bail pivotable between a first position and a second position; and an actuator having a first end, a second end, and a portion slideably engaged with the slot, the first end of the actuator coupled through a cam pivot, the second end of the actuator having a pin portion disposed in an opening in a wall of the module housing, the actuator extending the pin portion through the opening in the wall in response to the bail pivoting to the first position, the actuator retracting the pin portion into the opening in the wall in response to the bail pivoting to the second position.