Abstract: A connector plug for interconnecting plurality of twisted pairs of wires in a cable has a body portion having a flared recess therein. A flared insert fits within the recess and has a top surface having first and second wire pair guiding channels and a bottom surface having third and fourth wire pair guiding channels extending from a cable entrance end to a contact end of the body portion. The insert has a channel defining cross-tail which is insertable into the end of the cable and the cable is crimped thereto by a crimping ring. A contact bearing contact base is mounted on the contact end of the body portion with the contacts immediately adjacent the end of the insert. Thus, the wires stay twisted from the cable to the contacts.

Abstract: In general, a cordage fixture and insertion tool provides a system and method of stabilizing wires of a cordage so that echo properties of telecommunication cords, created by use of the tool, are similar and may be effectively cancelled by a modular device to which the cord is attached. The tool comprises an elongated body having a longitudinal concave portion therein, which extends through the length of the tool. The width of the longitudinal concave portion is shaped in accordance with the size of the cord for which the tool is created. An elongated member extends from one end of the elongated body in a manner axially adjacent to the central axis of the longitudinal concave portion, and is capable of receiving a crimp ring, located on the cord so as to stabilize the cord during insertion of a plug subassembly into a housing.