The TP-Link 8-Port Gigabit Desktop Network Switch provides you with a high-performance, low-cost, easy-to-use, seamless and standard upgrade to improve your old network to a 1000Mbps network. Increase the speed of your network server and backbone connections, or make Gigabit to the desktop a reality. Power users in the home, office, workgroup, or creative production environment can now move large, bandwidth-intensive files faster. Transfer graphics, CGI, CAD, or multimedia files and other applications that have to move large files across the network almost instantly.