Cable assembly having improved configuration for suppressing cross-talk

A cable assembly, comprising:

• a metallic housing including a first shield part assembled to a second shield part to form a receiving space, said receiving space including a hollow portion and a mating port located in front of the hollow portion;
• a first printed circuit board parallel to a second printed circuit board and enclosed within the receiving space, said first and the second printed circuit boards having mating interfaces extending into the mating port and mounting portions located in the hollow portion;
• a metallic plate disposed between the first and second printed circuit boards, said metallic plate electrically connected to the metallic housing via at least a metallic pin;
• and
• a plurality of wires connected to the mounting portions of the first and second printed circuit boards;
• wherein the metallic plate is enclosed in a spacer and insulated from the first and second printed circuit boards.

A cable connector assembly comprising:

• a casing defining a receiving cavity;
• vertically aligned upper and lower printed circuit boards respectively located at upper and lower levels while commonly received in the receiving cavity in a parallel relation with each other;
• upper and lower cables offset from each other vertically to be located at the upper and the lower levels, respectively, and further offset from each other horizontally to connect to different positions of the corresponding upper and lower printed circuit boards in a transverse direction so as to have the whole assembly in a dense arrangement without interference;
• wherein a grounding plate is located between the upper printed circuit board and the lower printed circuit board;
• wherein each of said upper cable and lower cables have corresponding wires respectively mounted to opposite upper and lower surfaces of each of the upper and lower printed circuit boards.