Densely packed telecommunications equipment enclosure
AssigneeNEC Corporation Of America
InventorsMark Sherman Keown, Casey Martin Bardue, John Reed Hannig, William R. Olsen
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Abstract
A telecommunications equipment enclosure, designed to be placed outdoors at a remote location, houses equipment to provide a large number of voice channels, an AC power supply, an AC/DC distribution panel, protector panels, a back-up battery plant, multiplexers, a fiber distribution panel, and a separate cable splice area. Other equipment may also be housed in the enclosure if needed. The enclosure is configurable to customers' requirements, and is extremely small and densely packed relative to its channel capacity.
Claims34
A telecommunications equipment enclosure comprising:
- a housing;
- a fixed rack within said housing mounting a first plurality of telecommunications equipment;
- a swing rack mounted swingably within said housing mounting a second plurality of telecommunications equipment, said swing rack pivotably attached to said housing and having an extended position and a retracted position, said swing rack being disposed within said housing when it is in the retracted position, and being disposed outside said housing when it is in the extended position thereby providing complete access to a rear portion of said second plurality of telecommunications equipment mounted on said swing rack and simultaneously providing access to a rear portion of said first plurality of telecommunications equipment mounted on said fixed rack;
- cooling means, mounted within said housing, for circulating air within said housing;
- battery plant means, fixedly mounted to an external surface of said housing, for providing backup power to said first and second pluralities of telecommunications equipment.
A telecommunications equipment enclosure comprising:
- a generally rectilinear housing having a plurality of external sides, a top, a bottom and at least one internal bulkhead defining a separate cable splice compartment, the cable splice compartment having a cable splice compartment door located in a first external side of the housing for providing access to the cable splice compartment only;
- a fixed rack, located inside the housing, for mounting a first plurality of telecommunications equipment within the housing;
- a fixed rack access door defining a second external side of the housing for providing access to the fixed rack and the first plurality of telecommunications equipment;
- a swing rack for mounting a second plurality of telecommunications equipment, said swing rack being pivotably attached to the housing and having an extended position and a retracted position, said swing rack being disposed within the housing when it is in the retracted position, and being disposed outside the housing when it is in the extended position, thereby providing access to a rear portion of the second plurality of telecommunications equipment mounted on the swing rack and simultaneously providing access to a rear portion of the first plurality of telecommunications equipment mounted on the fixed rack;
- a swing rack access door defining a third external side of the housing for providing access to the swing rack, wherein said swing rack access door swings in a first direction to allow said swing rack mount to pivot away from said housing in a second, opposite direction;
- a battery plant attached to a fourth external side of the housing, outside the housing and having at least one battery for providing emergency power to the telecommunications equipment mounted in the housing;
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- cooling means for circulating air inside the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.