Patent ID: 7333606

Claim:
A telecommunications component comprising: a circuit board; a first multi-pair cable connector mounted on the circuit board for inputting twisted pair, mixed data and voice signals to the circuit board; a second multi-pair cable connector mounted on the circuit board for outputting twisted pair, voice signals from the circuit board; a third multi-pair cable connector mounted on the circuit board for outputting twisted pair, data signals or mixed data and voice signals from the circuit board; one or more card edge connectors connected to the circuit board, the one or more card edge connectors including: a group of normally closed contacts; a group of normally open contacts, all of the normally open contacts being grouped separately from the normally closed contacts; first tracings provided on the circuit board for connecting the first multi-pair cable connector to the normally closed contacts; second tracings provided on the circuit board for connecting the normally closed contacts to the second multi-pair cable connector; third tracings provided on the circuit board for connecting the normally open contacts to the third multi-pair cable connector; the tracings being positioned such that none of the third tracings on the circuit board cross-over any of the first or second tracings; and a splitter card having one or more card edge connectors that connect to the one or more card edge connectors of the circuit board, the splitter card including a plurality of splitters for splitting the mixed data and voice signals into the data signals and the voice signals.