Patent ID: 8251745

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a first differential signal pair including first and second contacts that have respective contact tails that are positioned on opposite sides of a first common centerline; a second differential signal pair including third and fourth contacts that have respective contact tails that are positioned along a second common centerline that is adjacent to the first common centerline; and a first housing that contains the first and second contacts and the third and fourth contacts, wherein the first differential signal pair and the second differential signal pair are positioned in the first housing; wherein when a second housing identical to the first housing, and having a third and fourth differential signal pair identical to the first and second differential signal pair, respectively, is inverted and rotated 90 degrees relative to the first housing for an orthogonal connection through a substrate, the first and third differential signal pairs are electrically connected to each other, while the second and fourth differential signal pairs are not electrically connected to each other.