Cat5e Keystone Jack, 90° 110 Punch Down (MIG5E-90)

Cat5e is still the cable in most of the walls, and a drop that gets re-terminated or added to an existing run wants a jack that matches it, at a price that makes sense for a jack installed by the hundred. This Cat5e keystone jack is built for that work: a 90 degree 110-type IDC jack on a press-fit PCB, where the contacts are pressed into plated-through holes to make a gas-tight, solder-free, lead-free connection instead of a soldered one, so there's no joint to crack or corrode behind the punch-down. The IDC contacts are phosphor bronze, the plug contacts are gold over nickel, the housing is fire-retardant plastic, and the pair-keeping design holds each pair twisted up to the contact, with the T568A and T568B color codes printed on the jack. It's a slim, high-density profile that snaps into any standard keystone opening in a wall plate, surface box, or patch panel, terminates with a standard 110 punch-down tool or a JackRapid tool for all eight conductors at once, and is rated for PoE++ at 100 W under 802.3bt. ETL verified, UL compliant, and RoHS compliant to TIA/EIA-568, in eleven colors so the jacks can be coded by use. For Cat6 drops, the MIG6-90 is the same jack a category up.

Features

• Cat5e performance. Eight-pin, eight-conductor, for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit links.
• 90 degree 110-type IDC termination. Punches down with a standard 110 tool or a JackRapid tool; wiring label printed on the jack.
• Press-fit PCB. Contacts pressed into plated-through holes for a gas-tight, solder-less, lead-free connection.
• Pair-keeping design. Holds the pairs twisted to the IDC.
• PoE++ ready. 802.3bt 4PPoE up to 100 W.
• Gold over nickel plug contacts, phosphor bronze IDCs. Corrosion resistance and wear through repeated terminations.
• Slim high-density profile. 14.6 mm wide, fire-retardant housing; ETL verified, UL compliant, RoHS.
• Eleven colors. Almond, black, blue, gray, green, ivory, orange, purple, red, white, and yellow.

Where It Fits

It suits structured cabling installers re-terminating or extending existing Cat5e drops at the wall plate and the patch panel, property managers and small-office networks adding a jack to a building wired in Cat5e, VoIP and phone installs that run handsets on Cat5e and want a tidy wall connection, security and access control techs landing cameras and readers on PoE where Gigabit is plenty, MDU and residential installers who want a jack in a color that matches the plate, a patch field that codes voice, data, cameras, and building systems by jack color, anyone terminating a hundred jacks who wants a JackRapid tool to do all eight at a stroke, and a job that already has the Cat5e bulk cable from the bulk copper collection and the WP2-series wall plates and keystone patch panels it snaps into. For Cat6 drops, the MIG6-90; for Cat6A and 10G, the MIG6A-90; for joining two plugged Cat5e cords through a plate, the COU5E-90 coupler in the same colors.

Good to Know

Press-fit is how the contacts meet the board, not how the cable meets the jack; the cable still terminates by punching each conductor down on the 110 IDC, with a 110 blade in one firm stroke, cut side out, or with a JackRapid tool that seats and trims all eight at once. Match the color to the A or B label on the jack and use one standard across the building. Keep the pair untwist short at the IDC, and let the pair-keeper hold the twist up to the contact. The page doesn't state a wire gauge; Cat5e solid is 24 AWG and 110 IDCs take 22 to 26, so most cable is fine, but check before terminating stranded patch cable. A Cat5e jack caps the channel at Cat5e, so don't put one on a Cat6 run and expect Cat6 test results; use the MIG6-90 there, and use this one where the cable is Cat5e anyway. Gigabit runs fine over Cat5e, which is what most of these jacks end up carrying. The 100 W PoE++ rating is the jack's; the channel still needs cable and a panel rated for it, and 4PPoE at high power on 24 AWG Cat5e in a bundle wants attention to heat. Count the jack as a connection in the channel budget, four across 100 m. It's unshielded, so it belongs on UTP cable. Keep it indoors; it's not a weatherproof part.

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