Patent ID: 6881099

Claim:
A telecommunications component, comprising: a chassis including a front side and a back side; a plurality of jack inserts mounted within the chassis, each jack insert including: a) a dielectric body having a front face positioned opposite from a rear face, the front face defining a plurality of bores sized to receive plugs having tip and ring contacts; b) a plurality of electrically conductive tip and ring springs for contacting the tip and ring contacts when the plugs are inserted in the bores; c) a plurality of normal contacts that normally engage the tip and ring springs when the plugs are not inserted in the bores; d) the tip springs, the ring springs and the normal contacts including rear extensions that project outwardly from the rear face; a plurality of cross-connect contacts electrically connected to the jack inserts; a plurality of separate circuit boards, each circuit board being electrically connected to several of the jack inserts; a plurality of dielectric rear cover pieces, each of the dielectric rear cover pieces covering a corresponding one of the circuit boards; and a plurality of rear connectors that project rearwardly from the rear cover pieces.