Patent ID: 8167662

Claim:
A telecommunications cable comprising: eight conductors arranged in four pairs of conductors generally along a cable axis, each conductor comprising an insulation surrounding a conductive core; and an electrical connector terminating an end of said cable, the connector comprising a wire manager defining eight elongate channels arranged in pairs and in parallel to said cable axis, and eight slots, one of said slots intersecting each of said elongate channels wherein a distance between a center of each channel of a given pair of channels is less than a distance between a center of a channel of a first pair and a center of a channel of a second pair, each pair of said elongate channels receiving a respective pair of said four pairs of conductors, and eight contacts, each of said contacts extending from a wire manager receiving surface substantially at right angles to said cable axis; wherein when said wire manager is positioned on said wire manager receiving surface, each of said contacts projects through a respective one of said slots into a respective one of said elongate channels substantially at right angles, piercing said insulation and contacting said conductive core of a respective one of said eight conductors.