Patent ID: 8851926

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a first contact module and a second contact module adjacent the first contact module, each contact module having a plurality of first and second electrical contacts, each of the first and second electrical contacts including a mating portion, a mounting portion, and an intermediate portion extending between the mating portion and the mounting portion, such that in each contact module, the intermediate portions of the first electrical contacts are disposed in a first common plane and the intermediate portions of the second electrical contacts are disposed in a second common plane that is spaced from the first common plane, wherein the first contact modules and the second contact modules are arranged such that two adjacent ones of the second electrical contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively, are spaced more closely than the intermediate portions of two adjacent ones of the first electrical contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively, wherein the first electrical contacts are ground contacts and the second electrical contacts are signal contacts, and the two adjacent ones of the signal contacts define a differential signal pair.