Commscope, Inc of North Carolina

Avaya Technology LLC

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Commscope Technologies LLC

Fitel USA Corporation

Commscope, Inc.

At+t Corp.

At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Laboratories, Limited

Commscope, Inc. of Norht Carolina

Michael Gregory German

Daniel Warren Macauley

Matias Peluffo

Golam Mabud Choudhury

Theodore Alan Conorich

G Mabud Choudhury

Peter T Tucker

Ryan E Enge

William J Ivan

Chin Choi-Feng

George Brooks

Gregory Pinn

Jaime Ray Arnett

Frank Salvatore Leone

Lyndon D Ensz

Lawrence Marc Paul

Danny L Satterthwaite

Richard Y Mei

Luc Walter Adriaenssens

Matthew R Kiener

LeaAnn Harrison Carl

Stephen Craig Bartolutti

Niall McAndrew

Richard Joseph Pimpinella

Amid Ihsan Hashim

Khalid W Al-Mufti

Ariful Hannan

Mark Richard Jennings

Andrew P Roberts

Frank P Baker

Ernest C Pickens

Frank Phillips Baker, Iii

Ronald Herbert Guelden

Constance R Pallas

Doyle J Barras

Masood Shariff

Mark A Hejnicki

Kaushik S Akkapeddi

Scott C Sievers

Wayne D Larsen

Bryan Scott Moffitt

Julian Robert Pharney

William Tracy Spitz

William Joseph Parzygnat

Wayne Scott Filus

Leonard H Drexler

Jason Bautista

Jeremia P Starace

Rishipal Arya

Jeffrey Dale Nielson

Rocco Bonanni

William C Baggett

Steven W Knoernschild

Ted E Steele

Dianne W Gilland

Andrew Schwartz

Lary Blake Van Scoy

Stanley Everett Wright

David Beihoff

William R Lambert

Steven Craig Bartolutti

Robert J Gashler

Eugene C Schramm

David A Snyder

Loren A Cox

Shawn M Clark

Chichuan Lin

Marta Beatriz Ripa

Yu Zhong

Brian Matthew Bloch

Harold B Frick

Jeffrey Allen Hess

Goalm M Choudhury

Mabud Choudhury

A system for cabling infrastructure that includes at least one port, at least one shutter, at least one sensor and a gateway is provided. The port is configured to be selectively coupled to a connector. Each shutter is configured to have an open state that allows access to an associated port and a closed state that covers the port. Each sensor is configured to sense the open state and the closed state of an associated shutter and generate shutter state signals that include information relating to a current sensed state of the associated shutter and an identification of a port that is associated with the associated shutter. The gateway is in wireless communication with each sensor to receive the shutter state signals. The gateway is configured to communicate the shutter state signals that indicate a change in a state of an associated shutter to a remote location.

Internet of things (IOT) system for cabling infrastructure

Port occupancy detection for connector panels is provided. In one embodiment, a connector panel comprises: a communications unit communicatively coupled to a network; and at least one modular port adapter assembly comprising: a plurality of communications couplers; and a plurality of port occupancy sensors each coupled to a sensor circuit. Each of the port occupancy sensors are configured to sense when the couplers are occupied. The panel communications unit obtains from the sensor circuit which of the couplers are occupied. The panel communications unit communicates port occupancy information to a gateway indicating circuit which of the couplers are occupied. A chassis including sidewalls extends between a front and a rear to define an interior, and including guides on the sidewalls. A plurality of blades mounted to the guides of the chassis, each blade including a midplane bus assembly configured to communicatively couple the sensor circuit to the panel communication unit.

Port occupancy detection for high density panels

Techniques are provided for accurately determining actual and prospective location(s) of radio(s) located in a structure and controlled by a shared spectrum system. By more accurately knowing the location(s) of the radios, the shared spectrum system can more efficiently allocate maximum transmission power(s) to the radio(s), enhance corresponding radio coverage area(s), and/or diminish interference to other radio(s) and/or primary user(s).

Methods and systems for location determination of radios controlled by a shared spectrum system

Systems and methods for automated network cabling integrity monitoring are provided. In one embodiment a system manager for a network that includes a network switch coupled to patching equipment comprises: at least one processor configured to execute software, the software comprising a network integrity monitor. The network integrity monitor controls a cable diagnostic test function to obtain a fault-distance measurement for a port of the switch. The network integrity monitor correlates the fault-distance measurement with network cable length information associated with the switch port to identify one or both of a network cable segment associated with the fault-distance measurement and a fault location. The cable length information is retrieved from a database. The network integrity monitor produces an output identifying of one or both of the network cable segment associated with the fault-distance measurement and the fault location to be displayed on a display device.

Systems and methods for automated network cabling integrity monitoring

One embodiment is directed to detecting that a cable has been connected to a port of patching equipment and detecting that the cable is no longer connected to said port. In response to detecting that the cable is no longer connected, information associated with fixed cabling coupled to said port that is captured by a cable tester is downloaded to a controller. The downloaded information is associated with said port and the downloaded information and association information is locally stored at the controller. The locally stored information can then be used to create and/or populate objects in a database. Another embodiment is directed to including a storage device and a wireless interface in patching equipment or other equipment such as an outlet or consolidation point for use in writing information to the storage device and reading information from the storage device via the wireless interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Automated capture of information about fixed cabling

A telecommunications patching system having point-to-point tracing capabilities includes: a plurality of end devices; at least one rack structure; a plurality of patch panels mounted to each rack structure; a plurality of connector ports disposed on each of the patch panels; a plurality of patch cords for selectively interconnecting different pairs of connector ports; a plurality of cables for selectively interconnecting the connector ports on the patch panels with respective end devices; tracing modules associated with said connector ports and end devices that monitor connectivity of the connector ports and end devices; and a display associated with the tracing modules configured to display the connectivity of a circuit comprising one or more of the connector ports and one or more of the end devices.

Intelligent telecommunications patching system

Methods of executing patching connection changes in a patching field are provided in which an electronic work order is received on a display located at the patching field, the electronic work order specifying the patching connection change. A technician may perform the patching connection change. Then, an electronic message may be sent from the patching field indicating that the patching change has been completed.

Methods of automatically recording patching changes at passive patch panels and network equipment

Systems, equipment and methods for automatically tracking cable connections and for identifying work area devices and related methods of operating communications networks are provided. In one embodiment, a method of automatically identifying an end device that is connected to a local area network, the method comprising: transmitting a first control signal over a control channel that runs from a first connector port on a patch panel of the local area network to an integrated circuit chip mounted on the end device through at least a communications cable, a second connector port and a patch cord; receiving a second control signal from the integrated circuit chip over the control channel in response to the first signal, the second signal including identifying information for the end device.

Systems, equipment and methods for automatically tracking cable connections and for identifying work area devices and related methods of operating communications networks

One embodiment is directed to a method of tracking, using an automated infrastructure management (AIM) system, connections made using a breakout cable. The breakout cable comprises a plurality of breakout connectors at a breakout end of the breakout cable. The method comprises identifying a sequence for adding or removing connections involving the breakout connectors of the breakout cable, identifying events associated with adding or removing connections involving the breakout connectors of the breakout cable, and associating the breakout connectors of the breakout cable with added or removed connections based on the identified sequence and the identified events. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Infrastructure management system with support for breakout cables

Methods of identifying available connector ports on rack mounted equipment use an image capture device to capture an image of a front face of an equipment rack. The captured image is compared to at least one stored image. A patch cord insertion status of at least one connector port included on an item of equipment that is mounted on the equipment rack is then determined based at least in part on the comparison of the captured image to the at least one stored image.

Multi-tier intelligent infrastructure management systems for communications systems and related equipment and methods

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Secaucus, NJ, United States of America

Michael Gregory German