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The cable will be 30 twisted pairs, plus or minus. There are two ways of terminating such connectors, either by soldering every pin manually, which is time consuming, painstaking, but requires no special tooling; or by using a crimp tool in an arbor with expensive "mass termination" jigs.

Edit: not sure if this is of any use, but might be worth checking out: LFH-60 male to male cable