Reduced condensation protector panel for use in a building entrance protector box

A building entrance protector box providing an interface between a signal transmission media cable having a first plurality of filamentary signal transmission elements and a second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements, the box being divided into a splice chamber receiving the cable and a protector chamber receiving the second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements, and wherein a protector field is disposed in the protector chamber to which the second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements is terminated and a third plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements extends from the splice chamber to the protector chamber, with each of the third plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements being terminated at one end to the protector field and at the other end to a respective one of said first plurality of filamentary signal transmission elements, the box comprising:

• a housing having a substantially planar base wall adapted for mounting to a support surface and a plurality of substantially planar surrounding walls each substantially perpendicular to said base wall so as to define an open enclosure containing said splice chamber and said protector chamber;
• a substantially planar mounting plate mounted within said open enclosure spaced from and parallel to said base wall and disposed within said protector chamber, said mounting plate adapted to have said protector field mounted thereon;
• and
• at least one protector module mounted to said mounting plate to form said protector field and including
• a protector panel comprising a unitary insulative block having a pair of opposed parallel planar surfaces, said block being formed with a plurality of sockets extending therethrough and open to said pair of surfaces, each of said sockets adapted to receive a respective connector terminal therein, and wherein said block is recessed from said pair of surfaces so that said pair of surfaces are discontinuous between pairs of said sockets.