Patent ID: 7115815

Claim:
A cable system for minimizing alien crosstalk, comprising: a first cable and a second cable, each of said first and second cables including: i) a plurality of twisted pairs, each of the twisted pairs of the plurality of twisted pairs having a lay length; and ii) a filler comprising a base portion and an extension, said twisted pairs positioned adjacent to said base portion, said extension being located a distance farther from said base portion than said adjacently positioned twisted pairs; wherein said filler of at least one of said first and second cables is helically twisted such that the lay length of each twisted pair of said plurality of twisted pairs of said at least one of said first and second cables is one of continuously increased and continuously decreased along a predefined length; and wherein when said first and second cables are positioned adjacent to one another, the lay length of each of said twisted pairs of said first and second cables is different than that of the other twisted pairs at any point of adjacency of said cables.