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April/May/June 2020 I 49 What some may consider a revolutionary feature of the hyper-capacity patch panel is a flex adapter that provides an additional 45 degrees of universal bend radius at the hyper-capacity connector's hinge, thereby helping to reduce cable strain and allow for new possibili- ties in cable management (Figure 20). Another feature of the hyper-capacity patch panel is a rapid latch system that allows for rack mounting by hand, eliminating the need for tools, screws, and additional hardware as shown in Figure 21. FIGURE 21: Shown is the rapid latch system on either side of the patch panel with its turn dials that allow for toolless mounting. FIGURE 20: Shown is the patch panel's specially designed flex adapter and its various positions of flex and rotation. FIGURE 22: The hyper-capacity fanout cable can convert a hyper-capacity, self-cleaning and protecting universal multi- fiber connector directly to either LC or MPO connectors at very low insertion and return loss. Shown is a hyper-capacity fanout cable with 96 fibers that converts directly to 48 LC connectors. FIGURE 23: Shown is the hyper-capacity fanout cable with 96 fibers converted to 12 eight-strand MPO connectors (QSFPs). In addition to the patch panels, installers can con- sider using the hyper-capacity fanout cable that can break out the hyper-capacity, self-cleaning and protecting universal multi-fiber connector (any number of strands) into compatible LC or MPO connection(s). Stringently third-party tested with the 96-fiber hyper-capacity connec- tor and LCs, the cable is compliant to Telcordia GR-1435- Core Issue 2, Telcordia GR-326 Issue 4, TIA/EIA-604-10 (FOCIS-10) and IEC 61754-20 for the interface, UL94 V-0 flammability rating, as well as OFNP compliance. The hyper-capacity 96-fiber connector (APC polishing) and LC (UPC polishing) generated again only 0.35 dB and 0.25 dB insertion loss respectively for this rounded cord SMF cable (Figures 22 and 23).