The TE Connectivity 1116504-2 is an 8p8c (RJ45, Ethernet) modular jack rated for Cat5 cabling — the standard for 100 MHz, 100BASE-TX applications in office, retail, and light industrial environments. It sits as a right-angle, unshielded, single-port jack in TE's modular jack family, with a board-edge cutout mounting style that centers the port in a chassis or panel opening.
Tray packaging suits manual placement or tube-fed pick-and-place lines, though the board-edge cutout requirement makes automated handling trickier than a standard through-hole jack.
What Cat5 Rating Means for the Build
The Cat5 rating means this jack is characterized for 100 MHz performance — sufficient for 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T Ethernet, but not certified for the 250 MHz of Cat5e or the 500 MHz of Cat6. In a structured cabling system, Cat5 jacks are functionally interchangeable with Cat5e at 100 MHz, but a Cat5e-rated patch panel or cable will not upgrade a Cat5 jack's frequency ceiling. For builds where the cabling infrastructure is already Cat5e or Cat6, consider a Cat5e-rated jack to avoid a bottleneck at the connector.
No LED — Plan for Panel Indicators
This jack does not contain an LED indicator. If the application requires port visibility, separate panel-mount LEDs or a jack with integrated LEDs will be needed.