The TE Connectivity 1-6116353-3 is a shielded modular jack with 8 positions and 8 contacts — the standard 8P8C footprint for RJ45 Ethernet connections. It is a right-angle, through-hole mounted jack with the tab facing up, designed to sit at the board edge of a network interface card, switch, or industrial Ethernet device. The Cat5 rating means the connector is qualified for 100 MHz signaling, covering 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX networks, and the shielded shell with integrated EMI fingers bleeds common-mode noise to the chassis ground before it reaches the magnetics. Two LED indicators — one red, one green — are built into the housing, giving the board designer link and activity status visible through the panel cutout without a separate light-pipe assembly.
This jack terminates by solder — the through-hole pins anchor into the PCB and the solder joint carries both the mechanical retention and the electrical connection. The dual-port configuration means a single component handles two Ethernet channels in the same board footprint — useful for dual-NIC designs or daisy-chained industrial devices where every port counts. The EMI finger contacts the chassis ground plane on the PCB, creating a low-impedance path for shield current that would otherwise radiate from the unshielded cable exit.
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