Abstract: A DSX jack assembly removal system, including an apparatus and a method, which includes a jack mount structure with a front end, a rear end, an upper support and a lower support and a jack aperture, a jack adapted to be slidably mounted in the jack aperture defined between the top and bottom supports of the jack mount structure, the jack including a jack body which defines a plurality of plug apertures sized to receive plugs having tip and ring contacts, and a tool aperture in one of the jack mount structure and the jack body, the tool aperture being configured to allow a jack removal tool to be inserted between the jack mount structure and the jack, such that the jack removal tool may utilize the jack mount structure as a fulcrum in removing the jack from the jack mount structure. The tool may be a bantam jack plug, a screw driver or many other prods.

Abstract: A connection system for electrically and mechanically connecting a DSX jack to a jack assembly, the system including a male connector with a plurality of elongated conductors electrically connected to the jack or the jack assembly, a dielectric shroud around the elongated conductors, the shroud having slits adjacent each of the elongated conductors, and a female connector with a female dielectric edge connector with an internal cavity with guides therein, a plurality of tuning fork contacts seated within the guides in the internal cavity and electrically connected to the other of the jack or the jack assembly, the tuning fork contacts including two prongs with a conductor aperture between the two prongs, the conductor aperture corresponding to the elongated conductors of the male connector, and the tuning fork contacts positioned to slidably mate with corresponding ones of the plurality of elongated conductors in the male connector.

Abstract: A DSX jack assembly removal system, including an apparatus and a method, which includes a jack mount structure with a front end, a rear end, an upper support and a lower support and a jack aperture, a jack adapted to be slidably mounted in the jack aperture defined between the top and bottom supports of the jack mount structure, the jack including a jack body which defines a plurality of plug apertures sized to receive plugs having tip and ring contacts, and a tool aperture in one of the jack mount structure and the jack body, the tool aperture being configured to allow a jack removal tool to be inserted between the jack mount structure and the jack, such that the jack removal tool may utilize the jack mount structure as a fulcrum in removing the jack from the jack mount structure. The tool may be a bantam jack plug, a screw driver or many other prods.

Abstract: A connection system for electrically and mechanically connecting a DSX jack to a jack assembly, the system including a male connector with a plurality of elongated conductors electrically connected to the jack or the jack assembly, a dielectric shroud around the elongated conductors, the shroud having slits adjacent each of the elongated conductors, and a female connector with a female dielectric edge connector with an internal cavity with guides therein, a plurality of tuning fork contacts seated within the guides in the internal cavity and electrically connected to the other of the jack or the jack assembly, the tuning fork contacts including two prongs with a conductor aperture between the two prongs, the conductor aperture corresponding to the elongated conductors of the male connector, and the tuning fork contacts positioned to slidably mate with corresponding ones of the plurality of elongated conductors in the male connector.