Patent ID: 7731525

Claim:
A jack assembly comprising: a first plurality of jacks and a second plurality of jacks that is positioned below the first plurality of jacks, each jack including a front end and a back end, each jack defining a port in the front end for receiving a plug and spring contacts within the port for making electrical contact with the plug, each jack further including insulation displacement contacts projecting in a direction from the front end to the back end of the jack, wherein the port and the spring contacts associated with the port of each of the jacks of the first plurality of jacks are staggered in a front to back direction with respect to the port and spring contacts associated with the port of each of the jacks of the second plurality of jacks such that front faces of the first plurality of jacks define a first straight line positioned at a first depth and front faces of the second plurality of jacks define a second straight line that is positioned at a second depth that is different than the first depth in the front to back direction, wherein a jack of the first plurality of jacks and a jack of the second plurality of jacks define adjacent jacks, wherein the adjacent jacks are vertically offset to each other, horizontally offset to each other, and staggered with respect to each other in a front to back direction.