Patent ID: 7332676

Claim:
A cable having a length along a longitudinal dimension, the cable comprising: a plurality of differential transmission lines extending along the longitudinal dimension; a first plurality of shield segments, each shield segment extending along the longitudinal dimension along a portion of the cable length, each of the shield segments of the first plurality of shield segments extending circumferentially about the plurality of the differential transmission lines; a second plurality of shield segments, each shield segment extending along the longitudinal dimension along a portion of the cable length, each of the shield segments of the second plurality of shield segments extending circumferentially about the plurality of the differential transmission lines, each of the shield segments of the first and second pluralities of shield segments being in electrical isolation from all other shield segments of the first and second pluralities of shield segments, each of the shield segments of the first and second pluralities of shield segments being separated from a shield segment adjacent thereto by a segmentation gap, each segmentation gap extending circumferentially about the plurality of the differential transmission lines, the shield segments of the first plurality of shield segments varying in form from the shield segments of the second plurality of shield segments.