Patent 10555435 was granted and assigned to Vapor IO on February, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is a patch panel, comprising: a circuit board; and an SFP, SFP+, or QSFP+ connector connected to a plurality of radio frequency coaxial (RF coaxial) connections via conductive traces of the circuit board, the RF coaxial connections configured to extend functionality of the SFP, SFP+, or QSFP+ socket of a computing device coupled to the patch panel from a rear end of the computing device to a front end of the computing device.