Patent ID: 8009437

Claim:
A wireless communication module, comprising: a first printed circuit board (PCB); a first row of conductive pins for interfacing with a female connector on a second PCB of a network node, the first row of conductive pins extending from a side of the PCB; a second row of conductive pins for interfacing with a female connector on the second PCB, the second row of conductive pins extending from the side of the PCB; and circuitry residing on the first PCB, the circuitry configured to receive a first plurality of data packets transmitted over a wireless network, the circuitry configured to depacketize the first plurality of data packets thereby recovering a first set of data, the circuitry further configured to transmit the first set of data, via at least one of the pin of the first or second row, to circuitry residing on the second PCB, wherein the first row is substantially parallel to the second row, wherein a separation distance between pin centers of the first row and pin centers of the second row is about 1.29 inches, and wherein a distance from a center of a pin of the first row to a center of an adjacent pin of the first row is about 0.08 inches.