Pluggable transceiver and receptacle modules with high pin count electrical contact array

Abstract

A pluggable transceiver has an outer casing to be attached to a networking cable and to be plugged into a receptacle, and a bottom surface exposing a two-dimensional array of electrical contact pads. The contact pads are electrically coupled with power supplies, ground references, and data signals received from and / or transmitted to the networking cable. Parasitic properties of the electrical contact pads and any devices, circuits, tracks, or wires inside the module are sufficiently small to support data signal bandwidths exceeding

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