Telecommunications and networking shelf and circuit card assemblies

Abstract

A shelf system for use in a telecommunications or networking application, including a shelf assembly and a circuit card assembly conformally inserted into the shelf assembly. The circuit card assembly includes a printed circuit board assembly disposed in a case and a plurality of fabric ports coupled to the printed circuit board and accessible from a rear facing side of the case. The shelf assembly includes a housing defining an opening on a rear facing side of the housing adapted to provide access to the plurality of fabric ports from the rear facing side of the housing. The circuit card assembly further includes a plurality of client ports accessible from a front facing side of the case and the housing of the shelf assembly further defines an opening on a front facing side of the housing adapted to provide access to the plurality of client ports from the front facing side of the housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.