Circuit member with enhanced performance

An electrical connector comprising:

• a dielectric housing having a mating face and a module receiving face, the mating face including a plurality of openings therein, each opening being configured to receive a mateable connector therein in a mating direction, the module receiving face being configured for receiving a plurality of filtering modules therein;
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• a plurality of filtering modules located in the housing, each filtering module having a housing, a magnetics assembly and a plurality of electrically conductive contacts,
• the magnetics assembly including first, second, third and fourth transformer cores, each transformer core having a plurality of wires wrapped therearound to define respective first, second, third and fourth transformers, two of the plurality of wires of each transformer defining first and second signal conductors and two of the plurality of wires of each transformer being electrically connected and defining a centertap of the transformer,
• some of the wires being electrically connected to the electrically conductive contacts, a portion of each electrically conductive contact extending into one of the openings for engaging contacts of a mateable connector upon inserting the mateable connector into one of the openings in the housing,
• the housing including a first set of conductive pins extending from a lower surface thereof and configured for interconnection to a circuit board upon which the electrical connector may be mounted, the first set of conductive pins being arranged in first and second parallel, offset rows to define a staggered array of pins, and
• the first and second signal conductors from each transformer being connected to pins in the first and second offsets rows, the centertap of the first transformer being electrically connected to a predetermined pin in the first row, the centertap of the second transformer being electrically connected to a predetermined pin in the second row, the centertap of the third transformer being electrically connected to a predetermined pin in the first row and the centertap of the fourth transformer being electrically connected to a predetermined pin in the second row.