Patent ID: 6923673

Claim:
An electrical connector for use with one of a plug and a jack as well as a cable that includes a cable jacket that covers a first portion of multiple pairs of wires, a second portion of the multiple pairs of wires extending beyond the cable jacket, the first portion and the second portion meeting at a junction, the electrical connector comprising: a housing assembly that is engageable with the one of the plug and the jack, the housing assembly including a plurality of connectors that each include an IDC portion; and a wire containment fixture defining an opening that includes an entry end that receives the cable and an exit end, the wire containment fixture further defining a plurality of wire slots adjacent to the exit end of the opening, each of the wire slots being configured to enable one wire of the second portion of one of the multiple pairs of wires to terminate therein, the opening defining a substantially constant convergence through a majority of the wire containment fixture in a direction from the entry end to the exit end, the opening also being configured to enable the second portion of each of the multiple pairs of wires to extend from the junction toward the exit end and to bend in a direction substantially normal to an axis of the opening to terminate in the respective wire slots, the wire containment fixture being engageable with the housing assembly such that the IDC portion of each of the plurality of connectors electrically engages one of the wires terminated in one of the plurality of wire slots.