Cradlepoint 170680-001 9-Wire Extensibility Port to GPIO Cable, 1.7 m

Cradlepoint's compact routers expose more than Ethernet — their extensibility port carries GPIO lines that let a router sense and switch the physical world. The 170680-001 is the cable that unlocks it: a 1.7 m (5.58 ft), nine-wire lead from the extensibility port to GPIO wiring, listed for the IBR900 series, IBR600C/IBR650C and R500-PLTE platforms. The router end uses a locking SATA-style connector (Cradlepoint catalogs it as "GPIO Cable, SATA with Lock"), which matters in the environments this cable serves — vehicles and industrial cabinets where vibration works ordinary friction-fit connectors loose. Nine conductors give integrators the full complement of the port's signals for wiring ignition sense, door and panel switches, relay outputs, and sensor inputs into NetCloud-managed logic. Typical builds: transit and public-safety vehicles reporting ignition and equipment states through the router; kiosks and enclosures where a door switch should raise an alert; remote assets where a router-driven relay power-cycles downstream equipment. At 1.7 m, the cable spans router-to-terminal-block distances inside cabinets and vehicle consoles without excess slack. This is a specialty part — order it by MPN and match it to the listed platforms rather than improvising with generic leads, because the extensibility port's pinout is Cradlepoint-specific. Genuine Cradlepoint accessory, MPN 170680-001, UPC 810007802381, approximately 0.20 lb shipping weight.