What happened to GS308T ?

Question

Hello&nbsp;I am searching for a new switch and found Netgear's "GS308T"(notice the 'T' at the end, not to be confused with any other switch with a similar model designation.)&nbsp;But as I search for where I can buy this switch I get no results.When I search at netgear.com for GS308T the search bar shows an autosuggestion for "S350 Smart Switches (GS308T) 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch", but as far as I can see there is no product page on netgear.com for GS308T.&nbsp;So, what happened to GS308T?&nbsp;Is the switch discontinued?Has it been rebranded and now have an entirely different model designation?&nbsp;Links:User manualhttps://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS308T/GS308T_GS310TP_UM_EN.pdfDatasheet https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/switches/smartswitches/gs350series_ds.pdf&nbsp;

schumaku · Answer

As I'm not Netgear, I can't give you "the" answer to your question.
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Looking from outside, these S350 Series models were launched to be sold into some price sensitive sales channels or markets. The GS308T came with a subset of industry leading services, stripping some features having an impact on the&nbsp; pricing.
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The GS108Tv3 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch with Cloud Management comes in addition to the features you know from the GS308T (coming with a five-years-hardware warranty and some nn days of installation support, WebUI, SNMP, management VLAN) with
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Worry-free limited lifetime warranty (for the original buyer)
Lifetime online technical chat support (for the original buyer)
Next Business Day (NBD) replacement in case of a hardware failure
Alternate to the external power supply, the ability to power over PoE
Netgear Insight Cloud Management (one year license included)
A streamlined, harmonized, and supported CLI

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Yes, there are as of writing no other small non-PoE models in the Netgear offerings, the "bigger brother" is the&nbsp;GS110TPv3 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Ethernet Smart Switch with 2 SFP Ports and Cloud Management (55W) already.
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Hope this helps.
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Regards,
-Kurt.
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Bob5353 · Answer

Hello Kurt, thanks for the helpful answer.

Yes, I draw the same conclusion that GS108Tv3 is the alternative product closest to GS308T.

Another thing I find strange is that both GS108Tv3 and GS308T show as EoS at https://www.netgear.com/about/eos/(the EoS search is a bit wonky if anyone tries it out)

However, the product page for GS108Tv3 has nothing about it being an EoS product. I get purchase offer "Add to cart" and GS108Tv3 can be delivered in a couple of days. https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/smart-cloud/gs108tv3/

I can also find plenty of stores selling GS108Tv3.

So, to summarize:

schumaku · Answer

As I said, I'm not Netgear - have challenged them for a complete and correct product life cycle documentation both customers, system integrators&nbsp; -and- sales can depend on. Iphie_C​ IphieChen​&nbsp;