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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2017
Applicant:
Commscope, Inc. of North Carolina, Hickory, NC (US);
Inventor:
Benji Boban, Hickory, NC (US);
Assignee:
COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA, Hickory, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/10 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01); H04L 12/10 (2013.01); H04L 49/40 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a backplane and a removable blade. The backplane is mounted to a housing and is operably coupled to the Ethernet. The removable blade is operably coupled to the backplane and is selectable from and interchangeable with: (a) a removable blade configured to receive an Ethernet input and product an Ethernet output; and (b) a removable blade configured to receive a non-Ethernet input and produce an Ethernet output representative of the non-Ethernet input.