Patent ID: 7606459

Claim:
A telecommunications assembly, comprising: a chassis comprising a top, a bottom, a front opening, a rear opening, and first and second transverse sides extending between the front and rear openings, the chassis defining a plurality of mounting locations; a fiber optic adapter mounted into the chassis through the rear opening at each of the mounting locations, each fiber optic adapter including a front end directed toward the front opening of the chassis and a rear end directed toward the rear opening of the chassis, each front end and each rear end configured to receive a fiber optic connector, the rear ends of the fiber optic adapters configured to be engaged with fiber optic connectors terminated to first fiber optic transmission cables, each fiber optic adapter removable from the chassis through the rear opening; and a plurality of telecommunications modules slidably received within the chassis through the front opening at the mounting locations, each telecommunications module including a housing defining an interior, a front face, a rear face, and at least one optical component within the interior of the housing, each telecommunications module including a cable exit at the front face and a fiber optic connector protruding from the rear face such that an end of the connector is disposed outside of the interior defined by the housing, a second fiber optic cable within the interior extending from the fiber optic connector of the rear face to the optical component and at least one third fiber optic cable extending from the optical component to the cable exit of the front face; wherein the fiber optic connectors of the telecommunications modules engage the front ends of the fiber optic adapters to optically couple the first fiber optic transmission cables with the third fiber optic cables extending to the cable exits of the telecommunications modules.