Adtran Gmbh

Marc L Roth

Phillip Ewing

Paul L Wooten

The interface apparatus has a connector-receiving unit for receiving a connector that is electrically connected via a conductor to a first device. The connector has a receiving opening corresponding to the conductor. The apparatus further has a port for receiving a cable terminator electrically connected to a second device that is configured to communicate with the network component. Furthermore, the apparatus has a component electrically connected to the port that has a conductive probe movably positioned with respect to the receiving opening corresponding to the conductor of the connector. The component has an actuation component that moves the conductive probe into the receiving opening of the connector when actuated thereby establishing a conductive path between the first device and the second device.

Apparatus and method for interfacing connectors to network components

A test fixture interfaces plural units under test (UUTs) with test equipment within a common equipment rack. The test fixture supports a plurality of vertically spaced apart shelf units. A shelf unit has a support surface and an input/output connector panel adjacent thereto, that define a UUT insertion cavity. An input/output connector panel contains cable terminations that terminate cables to various testing equipments. Insertion of a UUT into the insertion cavity places communication ports of the UUT adjacent to cable terminations of the adjacent input/output connector panel. Jumper cables interconnect communication ports of the UUT with cable terminations of the adjacent input/output connector panel.

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New Market, AL, United States of America

Marc L Roth