NETGEAR offers several kinds of switches to suit a wide variety of needs:
- Unmanaged. Unmanaged switches are easy to set up and offer simple connectivity with no need for management—perfect for a home office. Just pick the speed and number of ports that you want, plug it in, and connect your devices. Unmanaged switches are available in speeds of Fast (100Mbps) or Gigabit Ethernet. Three models also support Power over Ethernet (PoE). To view NETGEAR’s line of Unmanaged Switches, visit http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/unmanaged/.
- Gaming and Media Streaming. The Nighthawk S8000 Gaming & Streaming Switch offers low latency, port prioritization, and Quality of Service (QoS) as well as user-friendly configuration and built-in presets for gaming and media streaming. The Nighthawk Switch is ideal for multi-user gaming and 4K UHD media streaming in a household full of Internet-capable devices. For more information about the Nighthawk S8000 Gaming & Streaming Switch, visit https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/switches/Nighthawk-switches/GS808E.aspx.
- Smart Managed Plus. Smart Managed Plus switches offer Quality of Service (QoS), virtual local area networks (VLANs), and network traffic monitoring at a great price point. You can manage them right from your web browser—no software required. These switches are ideal for the home or small office that needs basic network management features and PoE capability. Smart Managed Plus switches are available in speeds of up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. To view NETGEAR’s line of Smart Managed Plus Switches, visit https://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/web-managed/.
- Smart Managed Pro. Smart Managed Pro switches provide the same features as Smart Managed Plus switches, but with many more options for access security (RADIUS), traffic control (ACLs), static routing, monitoring (SNMP), and cable testing. The Smart Managed Pro line of switches is a big step up from Smart Managed Plus, and is intended for commercial use. Smart Managed Pro switches are the perfect fit for small to medium organizations of up to 200 users, possibly with a network core composed of Fully Managed Switches. To view NETGEAR’s line of Smart Managed Pro Switches, visit https://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/smart/.
- Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches. Insight Managed switches take networking to a new level, with unified, policy-based architecture rather than individual, device-by-device setup and management. Insight Managed Smart Cloud switches also provide remote cloud management and monitoring, and advanced L2/L2+ switching features such as VLANs, ACLs, QoS, LAGs, and Multicast, building on NETGEAR’s powerful Smart Managed Pro switching line. More importantly, Insight Managed switches and access points support auto-join and configure (zero-touch provisioning), as well as a single-pane-of-glass view for managing all of your Insight Managed networking devices, and multiple network locations anytime, anywhere, using the NETGEAR Insight mobile app. The Insight mobile app offers easy device discovery, one-touch registration, simplified setup, configurable alerts and notifications, and ongoing firmware management for Insight Managed devices. Network administrators can manage an entire network of Insight Managed devices with a single administrator password and real-time cloud monitoring. The Insight Cloud Portal (available to Insight Premium subscribers only) offers the same great features as the mobile app as well as highly customizable monitoring options. To view NETGEAR’s line of Insight Managed Switches, visit www.netgear.com/insight-switches.
- Click and Easy-Mount. NETGEAR Click Switches and Easy-Mount Switches offer innovative mounting options that let you deploy them where you need them—vertically, horizontally, under a table or desktop, on a pole or desk leg, or on a wall. NETGEAR offers several models of Smart Managed Plus Click Switches. Their small, sleek form factor and silent operation make them ideal for a small or home office or for edge deployment in an enterprise network. In addition to mounting with their Virtually Anywhere™ mounting system, you can also rack mount Easy-Mount Switches. NETGEAR’s Easy-Mount Switches come in both Smart Managed Plus and Smart Managed Pro versions. To view NETGEAR’s line of Click and Easy-Mount Switches, visit http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/click-easy-mount-switches/.
- Fully Managed. Fully Managed switches offer all the features of Smart Managed Plus switches with additional Layer2 (switching) and Layer 3 (routing) functionality. Advanced Layer 2 features include granular traffic shaping (using ACLs) and scalable deployment options (using L2/L3 DHCP relay agents). Network Access Control offers tiered authentication with 802.1x defaulting on MAB defaulting on captive portal. Advanced Layer 3 features include resilient and load-balanced static routing (all series) or dynamic routing (RIP, VRRP, OSPF, PIM available in some series). Fully Managed switches also provide a command line interface (CLI) that lets network administrators easily configure and deploy these switches in wide-scale enterprise environments. Fully Managed switches most often serve medium-sized networks. To view NETGEAR’s line of Fully Managed Switches, visit http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/managed/.
For help narrowing your options, you can also use NETGEAR’s Switch Selector to view models by number of ports, link speed, management type, mounting type, and several other options and features: https://selector.netgear.com/explore/switches
Last Updated:08/19/2026
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