Patent ID: 7819675

Claim:
A cable assembly, comprising: an insulated housing extending along a front-to-back direction; a plurality of contacts arranged in a row and supported by the insulated housing, said contacts including three grounding contact members spaced by two pairs of signal contact members; a cable including two juxtaposed differential wire pairs respectively enclosed by conductive shielding portions; a grounding member including a main portion, three finger portions extending forwardly from a front side of the main portion and two arm portions formed at lateral sides of a rear segment of the main portion, said arm portion securely gripping the conductive shielding portion; and the finger portions soldered to the grounding contact members, and inner conductors of the differential wire pairs soldered to the signal contact members, respectively; wherein the insulated housing has a number of walls together defining an L-shaped mating port; wherein a number of contact slots are defined in a rear wall of the insulated housing to communicate with the mating port, and tail portions of the contacts extend outside the insulated housing via the contact slots.