A stent is provided, which joins a plurality of stent components via a strut which, even when repeatedly bent over a long period of time, resists breaking. The housing fits over the plug with the tang blocking a latch arm of the plug from being moved to release the plug from the jack. The light transmissive substrate has a first and a second surfaces opposite to each other. A passivation layer is formed on the data lines and the data shorting bar. Ensuring independence between each aspect of the system will facilitate efficient parallelism while still maintaining serial equivalency.