Multi-purpose communications cabinet

Abstract

A communications cabinet for use with copper/fiberoptic converters has electrical connections between power, copper and fiberoptic conductors and the converters preformed as conductive traces on a printed circuit board mountable in a housing. Electrical connections between power, copper and fiberoptic conductors passing through apertures in the housing and corresponding connections to the converters are made through a patch field formed of connectors mounted in the housing, each receiving terminal connectors on the conductors and converter terminations. Seal members are mounted in the housing adjacent apertures through one wall of the housing for sealingly encompassing the copper, fiberoptic and/or the power conductors passing through the apertures in the housing. The printed circuit board receives the converters in a plug-in mount without separate fasteners. An extension cabinet is fixed to the housing and receives power conductor and cables. A DC to AC converter in the extension cabinet supplies AC power to devices mounted in a rack formed in the extension cabinet.

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