Nighthawk S8000 swoops down on managed switch market
by from Techreport on (#28GTZ)
Buyers of high-end consumer routers have sent manufacturers the message that aggressive styling based on next-generation fighter aircraft and science-fiction space ships helps move product. Netgear's Nighthawk series of routers was perhaps the first to fly down that corridor, and the company is now hawking a managed switch with aggressive aesthetics and a performance-oriented feature set. The Nighthawk S8000 is an eight-port managed Gigabit Ethernet switch with QoS, traffic prioritization, link aggregation, plus the angular looks and not-boring-green lights that Nighthawk products are known for.
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