3×8 stacked RJ45 connector with integrated LEDs option for 1U product form factor

A networking component comprising:

• a connector having therein a plurality of RJ45 jacks arranged into exactly three horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns;
• a printed circuit board to electrically interface with each of the plurality of RJ45 jacks;
• a 1x Rack Unit (1U) chassis having the connector and printed circuit board therein, wherein at least a portion of the connector extends into a horizontal plane occupied by the printed circuit board;
• wherein the printed circuit board is oriented upon the horizontal plane within the 1U chassis establishing a printed circuit board layer;
• and
• wherein the portion of the connector that extends into the horizontal plane occupied by the printed circuit board is characterized by one of the following:
• (a) the connector being positioned wholly anterior to the printed circuit board with no overlap between the connector 605A and the printed circuit board within a vertical plane;
• (b) the printed circuit board is partially overlapped by the connector, wherein a lowermost portion of the connector is positioned anterior to the printed circuit board within the horizontal plane established by the printed circuit board layer and further wherein another portion of the connector does not extend into the horizontal plane of the printed circuit board layer and is positioned above and atop the printed circuit board which is positioned posterior to the lowermost portion of the connector which extends vertically down into the horizontal plane of the printed circuit board layer;
• and
• (c) the printed circuit board having an opening for the connector, wherein lowermost portion of the connector extends vertically down into the opening of the printed circuit board such that the lowermost portion of the connector occupies a space within the printed circuit board layer and further wherein the printed circuit board at least partially surrounds the connector at a lateral left side, at a lateral right side, and at a posterior side, but does not surround the connector at an anterior side.

A rack system comprising:

• rack rails;
• and
• a 1x Rack Unit (1U) chassis mounted to the rack rails of the rack system, the 1U chassis having embodied therein:
• (a) a connector, wherein the connector includes a plurality of RJ45 jacks arranged into exactly three horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns,
• (b) a printed circuit board to electrically interface with each of the plurality of RJ45 jacks, and
• (c) wherein the 1U chassis having the connector and printed circuit board therein includes at least a portion of the connector extending into a horizontal plane occupied by the printed circuit board within the 1U chassis.