Cable assembly with elecrical and optical transmitting

A cable assembly, comprising:

• an insulative housing;
• at least one terminal module assembled to the insulative housing, the terminal module having a plurality of terminals combined with an insulator thereof;
• a printed circuit board assembly having a substrate with a photoelectric conversion device mounted thereon;
• and
• a cable including copper wires and fibers, the copper wires electrically connected to corresponding terminals via the substrate, and the fibers optically connected to the photoelectric conversion device which further electrically connected to corresponding terminals via the substrate.

A cable connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a mating section including an electrical mating port and an optical mating port around a front face thereof;
• a plurality of electrical contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed in the electrical mating port;
• a plurality of lenses disposed in the housing and exposed in the optical mating port;
• a printed circuit board (PCB) associated with the housing and being equipped with a plurality of conductive pads and a photoelectric conversion device thereon;
• and
• a cable linked behind the housing and including a plurality of copper wires and a plurality of optical fibers;
• wherein
• there are three different transmission lines formed between the mating section and the cable, an electrical transmission line between the contacts and the copper wires with assistance of the PCB, an optical transmission line between the lenses and the fibers without assistance of the PCB, and a photoelectric transmission line between the contacts and the fibers with assistance of the PCB.