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Abstract

A communication connector assembly including a wire board, and a number of elongated terminal contact wires extending above a top surface of the board. The contact wires have free end portions for making electrical contact with a mating connector, and base portions formed opposite the free end portions for supporting the contact wires on the board and for connecting the wires to conductors on or within the board. The base portions project normal from the top surface of the board. Pairs of the contact wires are coupled to one another along a first coupling region between their free end portions and their base portions and horizontal with respect to the top surface of the wire board, so that crosstalk introduced by the mating connector of a given polarity, is reduced over the first coupling region. The base portions are also configured to enter the wire board with a pattern defining one or more second coupling regions wherein the base portions are coupled to one another with a polarity opposite the given polarity, so that the introduced crosstalk is further reduced over the second coupling regions.

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