Crosstalk study in splitter PCB design of CAT-5 cabling applications

A review of crosstalk in splitter PCB design of CAT-5 cabling system for local area network (LAN) application is carried out Results have shown that design parameters such as separations, lengths and angles of trace pair are the critical parameters on the crosstalk reduction of PCB design, and that a 9 dB reduction of the crosstalk is observed by simply balancing the mutual capacitance between trace pairs.