Patent ID: 7811118

Claim:
A shielded wire containment cap for use with a communication connector, the wire containment cap comprising: a rear end; a front end; an opening in the rear end; first, second, third and fourth twisted-pair slots within the opening, the twisted-pair slots having funnel-shaped slot entrances; a rear spine, the spine extending from a first inner wall of the wire containment cap to an opposing second inner wall of the wire containment cap; and a pair of opposing rear separator ribs, the rear separator ribs perpendicular to the spine and extending from the spine to opposing third and fourth inner sidewalls of a wire containment cap wherein the spine in conjunction with the rear separator ribs separates the first, second, third, and fourth twisted wire pair slots from each other, wherein the twisted-pair slots angle away from a central longitudinal axis of the wire-containment cap.