Patent ID: 8435082

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: mating conductors configured to engage plug contacts from a modular plug at a mating interface, the mating conductors comprising first and second differential pairs; and a circuit board including a board substrate that has opposite board surfaces and a thickness measured along an orientation axis extending between the opposite board surfaces, the circuit board having associated pairs of input and output terminals coupled to the board substrate, the input terminals being communicatively coupled to the mating conductors and the output terminals being configured to communicatively couple to cable conductors of a communication cable; wherein the circuit board includes signal traces in which each associated pair of input and output terminals is electrically connected through one of the signal traces, the signal traces having a conductive path extending along the board substrate that transmits signal current between the corresponding input and output terminals, the signal traces including first and second signal traces that are associated with the first differential pair and third and fourth signal traces that are associated with the second differential pair, wherein the first, second, and third signal traces form a broadside-coupling region in which the first, second, and third signal traces are stacked along the orientation axis and spaced apart by the board substrate, the first, second, and third signal traces extending parallel to one another through the broadside-coupling region for a crosstalk-reducing distance.