Electrical connector assembly including matable board connector and cable connector with improved grounding bar

A cable connector comprising:

• a contact module including a metallic shielding plate and a pair of subunits commonly sandwiching the metallic shielding plate in a transverse direction;
• each subunit comprising a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator, the contacts including a plurality of differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the transverse direction, each contact comprising a front contacting section and a rear tail section along a mating direction perpendicular to both the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, the tail sections of the grounding contacts being unified with a transverse bar;
• a plurality of wires each having a pair of inner conductors respectively soldered to the tail sections of corresponding differential-pair contacts, and an outer braiding layer surrounding the pair of inner conductors and mechanically and electrically connected to the transverse bar;
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• a pair of grounding bars positioned upon corresponding subunits, respectively, each grounding bar comprising a plurality of rear tabs to separate respective braiding layers of the two corresponding neighboring wires in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of front tabs respectively separating the inner conductors of the two corresponding neighboring wires in the longitudinal direction.