The Nighthawk S8000 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch extends the speed and performance of the NETGEAR Nighthawk family of WiFi routers, already the fastest on the market. It provides your wired devices with ultra-smooth gaming and streaming so you can host a multi-user gaming party, video chat in HD with friends, surf the internet at blazing speeds, or stream HD content from the internet or your own local storage — without competing for bandwidth on your wireless network.

Specs.:
- Sleek, durable, cool-touch premium zinc alloy housing design with soft-touch no-slip base
- Easy, one-click optimized configuration presets for gaming, media streaming, or standard networking, plus two user-defined configurations
- Port-based and 802.1p/DSCP-based QoS (Quality of Service) for 4 levels of network traffic prioritization
- Auto denial-of-service (DoS) prevention
- IGMP snooping support for multicast optimization
- Loop detection and broadcast storm controls
- Rate limiting and priority queuing for better bandwidth allocation
- Port trunking/link aggregation (LAG) enables increased throughput beyond 1Gbps [up to 4Gbps] or to provide redundancy across the link(s)
- Industry-leading limited 3-year warranty and multiple support options