Abstract:
A communications connector assembly capable of meeting proposed Category 6 performance levels with respect to near end crosstalk. The assembly includes a wire board having a front portion, and a number of elongated terminal contact wires with base portions connected at one end to the board, and free end portions for electrically contacting a mating connector. The terminal contact wires extend parallel and co-planar with one another above the front portion of the board, and their free end portions project from the front portion of the board. The free end portions are configured to be deflected resiliently toward the board when the mating connector engages them in a direction parallel to the board. A crosstalk compensating device is associated with at least one of the terminal contact wires at a position where the wires are co-planar with one another.