Compensating connector system

A compensating receptacle connector for terminating a cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and for connecting with a plug, the cable of a cabling category conforming to a cabling standard, the connector comprising:

• a plug mating zone comprising:
• an RJ-45 compatible receptacle;
• an elongate flexible printed circuit board (PCB);
• eight like elongate contacting surfaces arranged in parallel and side by side towards a first end of the PCB, each of the contacting surfaces comprising a trace on the PCB, each of the contacting surfaces adjacent and equidistant from at least one other adjacent contacting surface, and an elongate slot between adjacent ones of the contacting surfaces, wherein the contacting surfaces each comprise a contact point at an end thereof;
• wherein when said receptacle is connected with the plug, Near End Cross Talk (NEXT) resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal across the plug mating zone is below a specified amount;
• a cable mating zone comprising:
• four pairs of conductor termination points towards a second end of the PCB, each of the twisted pairs of conductors terminated at a respective pair of the termination points wherein NEXT resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal across the cable mating zone is below a specified amount;
• and
• an intermediate zone comprising:
• a plurality of connecting traces on the PCB, one of the connecting traces interconnecting each of the conductor termination points with the contact point of a respective contacting surface wherein NEXT resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal across the intermediate mating zone is below a specified amount;
• wherein the specified amount is below a level as specified for the cabling category and the NEXT resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal between the cable and the device is below a level as specified in the cabling standard.