General Instrument Corporation

Kimberley A Smedley

Charles F Niesley

Douglas A Tenney

Steven F Frederick

Ronald L Gebhardt, Jr

Jinwoo Lee

Frank J Scullin

William A Carleton

Described herein are systems and methods for a field-configurable optical network terminal (ONT) device at a subscriber to provide one or more communication services to the subscriber. The field-configurable ONT device is of a modular design operable for the insertion of additional communication modules or removal of existing communication modules from the ONT device for scaling the device to increased or decreased communication capacity as desired.

Field-configurable optical network terminal device

A modular electronic chassis system with nested electronic plug-in modules including at least one circuit board providing a first-module-receiving-location and a second-module-receiving-location such that the system is capable of supporting modules in a nested configuration having increased packaging density. A first plug-in module detachably engaged with the first-module-receiving-location. A second plug-in module detachably engaged with the second-module-receiving-location so that the first plug-in module and the second plug-in module are nested.

Nested plug-in modules

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West Chester, PA, United States of America

Kimberley A Smedley