Patent ID: 7815472

Claim:
A method of assembling a cross-connect arrangement, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a jack mount defining a plurality of mounting locations; b) providing a plurality of jacks, each jack including a jack body formed of a dielectric material, the jack body defining a plurality of bores sized to receive standard tip-and-ring plugs having tip and ring contacts, each jack including a plurality of electrically conductive tip and ring springs, the tip springs being adapted to make electrical contact with the tip contacts of the plugs when the plugs are inserted within the bores, and the ring springs being adapted to make electrical contact with the ring contacts of the plugs when the plugs are inserted within the bores, each jack including a plurality of normal contacts adapted to normally make electrical contact with the tip and ring springs; c) inserting a first jack of the plurality of jacks into a first mounting location of the jack mount; d) inserting a second jack of the plurality of jacks into a second mounting location of the jack mount adjacent to the first jack; e) wherein the bores of the first jack are vertically staggered relative to the bores of the second jack, the vertically staggered bores of the adjacent first and second jacks occurring without vertically staggering the jacks relative to one another.