Mounting for telecommunications equipment

An equipment housing comprising a pair of opposed sidewalls connected by top and bottom walls and a rear wall, to define a box-like structure having an open front, each of said sidewalls having rigidly attached thereto a bracket body of a mounting bracket, said mounting bracket further comprising a fastener for rigid attachment to a rack, and a damping member coupling said fastener to said bracket body.

A rack for mounting equipment housings, the rack comprising a base, a pair of opposed elongate parallel side members projecting from the base and terminating in free ends, and a top member coupling said free ends, wherein each of said side members has a pair of spaced apart parallel rails extending substantially along the length of the side members, said parallel rails each having a series of mounting points distributed along the length of the rail, whereby each side member may accommodate front and rear sets of fasteners for equipment mounting brackets, and including an equipment housing mounted between said side members, said housing having a pair of opposed sidewalls connected by top and bottom walls and a rear wall, to define a box-like structure having an open front, each of said sidewalls having rigidly attached thereto a bracket body of a mounting bracket, each of said mounting brackets further comprising a front and a rear fastener, wherein said front fastener is provided on a flange extending away from said bracket body in a plane substantially coincident with that of the open front, such that the front fastener of either bracket is fastened to one of said rails in the adjacent side member, and wherein said rear fastener is located adjacent said rear wall of said housing and is fastened to the other of said rails of each side member.

A mounting bracket for mounting an equipment housing to a rack, the mounting bracket comprising a bracket body for rigid attachment to said housing, and a fastener for rigid attachment to said rack, wherein the bracket body comprises a pair of separable body members, each having a hook for engagement with a respective lip on an equipment housing, such that said hooks may be brought into anchoring engagement with said lips by connecting the body members together.

A method of mounting a bracket to an equipment housing, said bracket comprising a pair of separable body members, each having a hook for engagement with a respective lip on said equipment housing, comprising the steps of engaging each of said hooks with a respective lip, and connecting the body members to one another when the hooks are engaged to anchor the bracket to the housing.

A method of mounting an equipment housing to a rack by means of a pair of brackets on opposite sides of the housing, each bracket having a front and a rear fastener, comprising placing the housing into the rack between a pair of rack side members such that said front fasteners are in registering alignment with a respective mounting point on a front rack rail of each side member and said rear fasteners are in registering alignment with a respective mounting point on a rear rack rail of each side member, and fastening the fasteners to the mounting points.

A rack for mounting one or more equipment housings, the rack comprising a base, a pair of opposed elongate parallel side members projecting from the base and terminating in free ends, and a top member coupling said free ends, wherein each of said side members has a pair of spaced apart parallel rails extending substantially along the length of the side members, said parallel rails each having a series of mounting points distributed along the length of the rail, whereby each side member may accommodate front and rear sets of fasteners for equipment mounting brackets, and in which each equipment housing comprises a pair of opposed sidewalls connected by top and bottom walls and a rear wall, to define a box-like structure having an open front, each of said sidewalls having rigidly attached thereto a bracket body of a mounting bracket, said mounting bracket further comprising a fastener for rigid attachment to said rack, and a damping member coupling said fastener to said bracket body.