Patent ID: 7955139

Claim:
A communication connector comprising: a plug that terminates a length of twisted pair communication cable; and a jack, into which the plug is inserted, the jack supporting interface contacts for connecting to wires within the twisted pair communication cable, and including circuitry to minimize internal near end crosstalk and internal far end crosstalk between the wires in the twisted pair communication cable, and to minimize differential mode to common mode and common mode to differential mode signal conversion within a mated plug/jack combination wherein the twisted pair communication cable includes eight wires numbered 1 - 8 , and is arranged as four twisted wire pairs numbered wire pairs 12 , 45 , 36 and 78 , so that while in a twisted pair configuration, wires numbered 1 and 2 are twisted, wires 4 and 5 are twisted, wires 3 and 6 are twisted and wires 7 and 8 are twisted, and at a termination point in the plug, the wires are untwisted and positioned adjacent one another in the order from wire 1 to wire 8 and wherein a capacitance between traces carrying signals of wires 1 and 3 , a capacitance between traces carrying signals of wires 2 and 6 , a capacitance between traces carrying signals of wires 2 and 3 , and a capacitance between traces carrying signals of wires 1 and 6 are all about equal to each other.