Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

Switch: how long support actually lasted

Ranked by the firmware history we hold, longest first. Every span is measured between the first and last firmware we saw, so each is a lower bound — no vendor here publishes a launch date, and support that began before the first release we know of is support we cannot count.

Only products whose support has demonstrably ended appear. A device still receiving firmware has a span that is still growing, and ranking it against finished ones would put the best-supported hardware at the bottom for still being supported.

50 ranked

  1. ≥5 years TP-Link TL-SG108PE v2 Gone quiet 6 releases · well evidenced
  2. ≥4 years TP-Link TL-SG108E v4 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  3. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108PE v4.26 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  4. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108PE v4 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  5. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108E v6.6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  6. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108E v6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  7. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108PE v4.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  8. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG108E v3 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  9. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v3.26 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  10. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v3.2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  11. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG1024DE v4.2 End of support 3 releases · well evidenced
  12. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v2.2 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  13. ≥2 years TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v1.2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  14. ≥1 year TP-Link TL-SG105E v3 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  15. ≥1 year TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  16. ≥1 year TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v6.6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  17. ≥1 year TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v7 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  18. ≥11 months TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v7.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  19. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v2.6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  20. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  21. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v4.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  22. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v4 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  23. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG1016PE v1 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  24. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG105MPE v1 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  25. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG105MPE v1.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  26. ≥10 months TP-Link TL-SG105PE v2 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  27. ≥9 months TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v5 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  28. ≥9 months TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v5.6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  29. ≥9 months TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v3.6 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  30. ≥9 months TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v3 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  31. ≥8 months TP-Link TL-SG1016PE v3.26 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  32. ≥8 months TP-Link TL-SG116E v2.2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  33. ≥8 months TP-Link TL-SG116E v2.26 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  34. ≥8 months TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v1 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  35. ≥7 months TP-Link TL-SG1024DE v6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  36. ≥7 months TP-Link TL-SG105E v4 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  37. ≥7 months TP-Link TL-SG1016PE v5.26 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  38. ≥6 months TP-Link TL-SG1016DE v3 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  39. ≥6 months TP-Link TL-SG1024DE v3 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  40. ≥6 months TP-Link TL-SG1024DE v6.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  41. ≥5 months TP-Link TL-SG1428PE v1 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  42. ≥5 months TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE v1 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  43. ≥5 months TP-Link TL-SG108E v1 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  44. ≥5 months TP-Link TL-SG108E v2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  45. ≥5 months TP-Link TL-SG108PE v1 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  46. ≥4 months TP-Link TL-SG105PE v2.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  47. ≥1 month TP-Link TL-SG105E v2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  48. ≥25 days TP-Link TL-SG108PE v3 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  49. ≥17 days TP-Link TL-SG116E v2 End of support 2 releases · well evidenced
  50. ≥17 days TP-Link TL-SG116E v2.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence

What this ranking leaves out

Of 286 products in this category, 53 could be ranked.

How these figures are computed.