Angled patch panel with cable support bar for network cable racks

A patch panel mountable to a network rack, comprising:

• a frame having rack mounting members provided on opposite longitudinal ends of the frame, wherein the frame includes two patch panel frame halves, wherein at least a portion of each of the frame halves are angled relative to each other by an obtuse angle between 90° and 180°, each of the portions having mountable thereon a plurality of connectors having a front face such that when the plurality of connectors are mounted on each of these portions, the front face of each connector in the portions is located such that it is not behind the front face of that portion of the frame which is adjacent to the connector.

A patch panel mountable to a network rack, comprising:

• a frame having rack mounting members provided on opposite longitudinal ends of the frame, wherein the frame includes two patch panel frame halves, each of the frame halves having mountable thereon a plurality of connectors having a front face such that when the plurality of connectors are mounted on each of the frame halves, the front face of each connector in the patch panel is located such that the distance from each connector front face to a second plane, which is parallel to a first plane that is in line with the longitudinal ends of the frame, and which is in front of the patch panel, is not greater than the distance to the second plane from the front face of any other connector of the patch panel which is farther from the center of the patch panel in a horizontal direction and the distance from the front face of a connector which is adjacent to the junction of the frame halves to the second plane is less than the distance from the front face of a connector in the same half which is adjacent to a rack mounting member to the second plane.