Abstract: A flexible channel molding assembly may include a plurality of molding members. Each of the molding members defines a channel configured to receive a cable, and the plurality of molding members are configured to be pivotally coupled to one another along an axial direction to conform to a surface having a complex geometry.

Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.

Abstract: An adapter management device for providing enhanced access adjacent to the adapter management device, including an adapter management device retention portion. The adapter management device may be configured to pivot between an open position and a closed position, and the adapter management device retention portion may be structurally configured to engage at least a portion of a base portion in the open position of the adapter management device so as to allow a user to perform an optical fiber cable operation in an area that would be obstructed by the adapter management device in the closed position without having to manually hold the adapter management device in the open position.

Abstract: An adapter management device configured to provide enhanced cable management that may include an adapter receiving portion, a perimeter portion, an inner cable retention portion, which may be configured to be positioned between the perimeter portion and the adapter receiving portion. and a cable receiving portion separator portion that may be configured to extend between the perimeter portion and the inner cable retention portion. The cable receiving portion separator portion may be structurally configured to provide a first cable routing path and a second cable routing path so as to enhance organization of cables in the adapter management device by providing two separate routing options for routing cables in the adapter management device.

Abstract: An adapter management device configured to provide enhanced access to an adapter, includes: an adapter receiving portion; a perimeter portion; and a support portion that is configured to connect the adapter receiving portion to the perimeter portion. The adapter management device comprises a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; and the support portion, the adapter receiving portion, and the perimeter portion are configured to define an open area inside the perimeter portion that is structurally configured to permit access to a first side of a cable connector that faces a same direction as the first side of the adapter management device and a second side of the cable connector that faces a same direction as the second side of the adapter management device so as to facilitate connecting the cable connector to, and disconnecting the cable connector from, the adapter receiving portion.

Abstract: A reel enclosure includes a base and a door pivotally coupled with the base. The door is movable between a first closed position and a second open position and is configured to hold a reel at an interior surface of the door. The reel is configured to have cable wound thereon. In the first closed position, the base is configured to prevent the reel from rotating relative to the door and the base, and, in the second open position, the door is configured to hold the reel outside of an interior of the base and permit the reel to rotate relative to the door and the base.

Abstract: A seal for a port of an enclosure may include a sealing portion structurally configured to be received in a port and a support portion structurally configured to be received by the sealing portion such that the support portion covers a portion of the sealing portion so as to prevent a pre-connectorized cable from being inserted into and removed from the sealing portion. The support portion may be structurally configured to be removed from the sealing portion so as to permit a pre-connectorized cable to be inserted into or removed from the sealing portion with a connector attached to the cable.

Abstract: An optical fiber connector subassembly may include a tuning portion coupled with a ferrule and a receiving portion configured to be slidingly moved relative to the tuning portion. The receiving portion may be structurally configured to receive the tuning portion such that the tuning portion is rotationally fixed with the receiving portion. The receiving portion may comprise a bore having a number N of sides, and the tuning portion may comprise an outer surface having N sides configured to be received by the bore in any one of N relative rotational positions between the tuning portion and the receiving portion. The tuning portion may be configured to be rotated relative to the receiving portion so as to arrange the polygonal outer surface and the polygonal bore in one of the N relative rotational positions between the tuning portion and the receiving portion so as to minimize signal transmission loss when the ferrule abuts a mating ferrule.

Abstract: A hybrid cable including: a jacket portion; a duct portion configured to be located inside the jacket portion; and an electrical conductor configured to be located inside the jacket portion. The electrical conductor is configured to be located outside of the duct portion; the electrical conductor and the duct portion extend substantially parallel to each other in the jacket portion; the duct portion is configured to be installed in the jacket portion in an empty state of the duct portion in which no wire or cable is in the duct portion; and the duct portion is configured to be loaded with fiber optic cable before, during, and after the hybrid cable is installed at an installation site so as to allow an installer to install an installation required number of fiber optic cables in the duct portion, thereby avoiding installation of unneeded fiber optic cable.

Abstract: A fiber distribution enclosure may include a base portion, a cover portion, and an enclosure portion structurally configured to be pivotally coupled with the base portion at an interior. The enclosure portion may include an adapter portion that is structurally configured to couple a fiber optic cable from outside of the enclosure portion with a fiber optic cable of a fiber distribution portion in the enclosure portion. The first enclosure portion may be structurally configured to be pivoted relative to the base portion between a lowered position and a raised position, and the first enclosure portion may include an engagement portion structurally configured to engage a receiving portion of the mounting portion in the raised position such that the engagement portion and the receiving portion are structurally configured to maintain the first enclosure portion in the raised position so as to provide enhanced access to the adapter portion.

Abstract: A composite water blocking shield includes: a first shield portion; an insulator portion surrounding the first shield portion; a second shield portion surrounding the insulator portion; and a water blocking portion surrounding the second shield portion. The insulator portion is adjacent to the first shield portion, the second shield portion is adjacent to the insulator portion, and the water blocking portion is adjacent to the second shield portion; the first shield portion, the insulator portion, the second shield portion, and the water blocking portion form a single tape that is configured to be applied to an outside of a portion of a cable as a single unit; and the composite water blocking shield provides radio frequency shielding and water blocking in a single tape so as to provide radio frequency shielding and water blocking in a compact cable.

Abstract: A moisture detector detects moisture in a coaxial cable. The moisture detector may include a moisture detection portion disposed in at least a portion of a cavity portion and configured to engage a cable moisture alert portion that is configured to generate a cable moisture alert when moisture is present in the cavity portion, and wherein the moisture detection portion is configured to generate a moisture detected signal when moisture is present in the cavity portion and cause the cable moisture alert portion to generate the cable moisture alert that moisture is present in the coaxial cable when moisture is present in the cavity portion.

Abstract: An F-male port includes a nut with internal threads that are configured to provide a mechanical fit and lock of the F-male port with an F-female port. The F-male port further includes a mating interface having an insert with an angled surface, wherein the mating interface is adaptable to differentials in surfaces of mated F-female ports. The F-male port also includes a nut retainer configured to hold the nut in place, wherein when the nut is torqued down, force is applied to the nut retainer and the nut retainer pulls the front of the insert with it to create a mechanical contact between the F-female port and the insert.

Abstract: An assembly for pulling, pushing, or blowing a plurality of preterminated fiber optic cables of a multi fiber cable through a duct includes a sleeve, a rod configured to be coupled with the sleeve, and a plurality of dust caps. The sleeve is configured to receive to be coupled with a multi fiber cable and to permit a plurality of preterminated fiber optic cables of the multi fiber cable to pass through the sleeve, and the rod includes a first end configured to be coupled with the sleeve. Each of the plurality of dust caps is configured to be coupled with a ferrule of one of the preterminated fiber optic cables, and each of the plurality of dust caps is configured to be coupled with the rod, thereby coupling the preterminated fiber optic cables with the rod.

Abstract: A cable management and mounting system including: a base portion; a support portion configured to slidingly attach to the base portion; and a lateral portion configured to slidingly attach to the base portion. The support portion may include an adapter receiving portion. A space between the base portion and the support portion may be configured to receive a communication device. The support portion and the lateral portion may be configured to receive different sized communication devices, different sized adapter units, and cable in an arrangement that may be configured to accommodate the different sized communication devices, the different sized adapter units, and the cable using adapter mounting portions and cable management structures that may be configured to engage with the support portion to avoid a need for additional mounting structures.

Abstract: A coaxial cable connector includes a body configured to be coupled with a coaxial cable, a nut having a forward end configured to be threadedly coupled with an interface port, and a sleeve surrounding the nut and extending forward from the nut in a direction opposite to the body. The sleeve has a forward portion that extends beyond the forward end of the nut by a length such that the sleeve is configured to contact an outer surface of the interface port before a center conductor of the coaxial cable contacts the interface port, and the sleeve is configured to align the connector with the port and to prevent the center conductor from contacting any portion of the interface port other than a center conductor contact portion of the interface port.

Abstract: A seal assembly for a field installable hardened fiber optic connector that may be configured to provide improved sealing and strain relief with a fiber optic cable includes: a pusher portion configured to transfer movement of a tightening portion; and a sealing portion configured to receive the transferred movement of the pusher portion. An engagement of the pusher portion with a shroud portion may limit rotation of the pusher portion relative to the shroud portion. The sealing portion may be configured to compress to form a seal around the fiber optic cable. Tightening of a tightening portion may compress the sealing portion onto a fiber optic cable to form a seal around the fiber optic cable and resist axial movement of the fiber optic cable relative to the sealing portion so as to provide enhanced weathertight sealing and strain relief between a shroud and the fiber optic cable.

Abstract: A connector includes a body having a central bore and a first grounding contact surface, a post disposed within the central bore and having an outwardly projecting flange configured to produce a first portion of a mating interface, and a conductive coupler. The post portion has a tubular sleeve configured to mechanically and electrically engage a prepared end of a coaxial cable. The conductive coupler has an engagement surface at a first end configured to mechanically and electrically engage an interface port, a lip at a second end configured to produce a second portion of the mating interface, and a second grounding contact surface opposing the first grounding contact surface. The first and second portions are configured to slide along the mating interface to rotate about an elongate axis of the connector. The connector includes a conductive ring disposed between the first and second grounding contact surfaces and configured to produce an electrical path between the body and the conductive coupler.