Patent ID: 8517765

Claim:
A cable header connector comprising: a cable assembly comprising a contact sub-assembly configured to be terminated to a cable and a ground shield coupled to and providing electrical shielding for the contact sub-assembly; the contact sub-assembly having a mounting block having contact channels therein, the contact sub-assembly having a single differential pair of signal contacts each received in corresponding contact channels, the signal contacts extending between mating ends and terminating ends, the signal contacts being terminated to corresponding signal wires of the cable at the terminating ends; and the ground shield having walls extending along the signal contacts the walls defining a receptacle, the ground shield having a mating end and a terminating end, the mating end of the ground shield being positioned either at or beyond the mating ends of the signal contacts, the terminating end of the ground shield being positioned either at or beyond the terminating ends of the signal contacts such that the ground shield provides shielding along the entire length of the signal contacts to provide electrical shielding for the single differential pair of signal contacts from signal contacts of another contact sub-assembly, wherein the receptacle is configured to receive only the single differential pair of signal contacts such that the ground shield electrically shields the single differential pair of signal contacts from any other differential pair of signal contacts.