Patent ID: 8465302

Claim:
A connector, comprising: a housing having a mating face and a mounting face; a plurality of first wafers disposed within the housing, the first wafers each supporting a plurality of ground terminals, each ground terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion; a plurality of second wafers disposed within the housing, each second wafer supporting a plurality of first signal terminals, each first signal terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion; a plurality of third wafers disposed within the housing, each third wafer supporting a plurality of second signal terminals, each second signal terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion, wherein the second and third wafers are arranged to be positioned adjacent each other to form a pair of wafers with a first wafer position between each pair of wafers, the signal terminals in the pair of wafers being positioned in alignment so that the signal terminals in the adjacent wafer are, in operation, coupled together and the body portions of the coupled signal terminals are positioned a first distance apart, and wherein the signal terminals include divergent portions adjacent the tail portions, the divergent portions causing the signal terminals to be separated by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.