48-Port Cat5e Patch Panel, 1U, 90° IDC with Strain Relief Bar, PoE++ 100 W (PP5E-48SR)

Closeout, final sale. This patch panel is being discontinued and won't be restocked. Orders can't be cancelled once placed, and the panel isn't eligible for return, exchange, or refund. Please read the specifications below carefully before you order, and get in touch first if you have any questions.

This is a 48-port Cat5e patch panel in 1U, preloaded, with a strain relief bar built in. The 48 RJ45 ports sit flush in the front of a 16-gauge steel panel, and behind each one is a 90-degree IDC block, color-coded for T568A and T568B, that takes solid or stranded 22 to 26 AWG Cat5e. The strain relief bar behind the panel carries the weight of the incoming cables so the punch-downs don't, and the panel mounts in any standard 19 in rack or enclosure. It's rated for PoE++ (802.3bt, 4PPoE) up to 100 W, UL listed, and RoHS compliant. It's unshielded and sold individually.

Features

• 48 ports in 1U. Flush-mounted RJ45 ports, numbered, in a standard 19 in panel.
• Preloaded 90-degree IDC. Color-coded for T568A and T568B; takes solid or stranded 22 to 26 AWG.
• Integrated strain relief bar. Takes the cable weight off the terminations.
• PoE++ to 100 W. 802.3bt 4PPoE.
• 16-gauge steel, rounded edges.
• UL listed, RoHS compliant. TIA/EIA-568 A and B wiring.
• Unshielded. Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits telecom rooms and IDFs terminating a floor's worth of Cat5e station cable where rack space is tight and 48 ports in 1U is the point, schools, clinics, and offices with a large Cat5e plant that's staying Cat5e for Gigabit and phones, security and PoE installs landing camera and access point home runs in a closet, anyone replacing a worn 48-port panel in an existing Cat5e rack without re-terminating to a different footprint, a lab or a shop that wants a cheap dense panel for a bench rack, and a job that already has the bulk Cat5e, the 110 punch-down tool, and the patch cords from the copper collections. For Cat6 and Cat6A plants, the Cat6 and Cat6A patch panels in the collection; for the cords to the switch, the Cat5e patch cords.

Good to Know

This is a closeout, so buy the count you need now, since there won't be a matching panel later; if the rack will grow, consider the quantity before the stock is gone. Mount the panel, then land the cables: dress each run to its port, strip the jacket, keep the twist in each pair to within half an inch of the IDC, lay the conductors by the color code in T568A or T568B to match the jacks at the far end, and punch down with a 110 tool, blade's cutting edge outward. Use solid-conductor cable for horizontal runs; the IDC takes stranded too, but stranded is for cords, not the plant. Tie each cable to the strain relief bar before you terminate it, so the weight of the bundle is on the bar from the start and never on the punch-down. 48 ports in 1U is dense, so plan a horizontal cable manager above or below for the patch cords, and label as you go, since the port numbers are small at that pitch. The panel is unshielded, so it's for unshielded Cat5e; shielded cable needs a shielded panel so the drain wires have somewhere to land. On PoE++ ports carrying 100 W, a clean punch on every conductor matters more than for data alone, since a half-seated conductor heats under load. A Cat5e panel makes a Cat5e link, which carries Gigabit to 100 m; it won't lift a plant to 10 Gigabit.

Specifications

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