Patent ID: 7438484

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a printed circuit board; and a connector body mounted on a mounting side of said printed circuit board, the connector body having a first entry slot and a second entry slot positioned substantially above or below the first entry slot such that the first and second entry slots are provided on said mounting side of the printed circuit board, the first entry slot configured to accept a first integrated circuit card of a multi form-factor pluggable transceiver, the second entry slot configured to accept integrated circuit card of the multi form-factor pluggable transceiver, the multi form-factor pluggable transceiver including the first integrated circuit card and the second integrated circuit card; a plurality of first transmitter electrical pins provided in the first entry slot and configured to be electrically connected to a plurality of first transmitter electrical pads of a single optical transmitter channel of the first integrated circuit card, respectively; a plurality of first electrical pins provided in the first entry slot and configured to be electrically connected to a plurality of first receiver electrical pads of the single optical receiver channel of the first integrated circuit card, respectively; a plurality of second electrical pins provided in the second entry slot and configured to be electrically connected to a plurality of second transmitter electrical pads of a plurality of optical transmitter channels of the second integrated circuit card, respectively; and a plurality of second receiver electrical pins provided in the second entry slot and configured to be electrically connected to a plurality of second receiver electrical pads of a plurality of optical receiver channels of the second integrated circuit card, respectively.