Networking hardware has a very long life. At a previous company, we used in the office as the center of the LAN a switch (Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL) which was alr

Networking hardware has a very long life. At a previous company, we used in the office as the center of the LAN a switch (Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL) which was already past EOL. In fact, it was so long past EOL that the switch model which replaced that model was also already past EOL. And yet, it worked perfectly (other than a couple of failed ports), and we probably used less than a tenth of its capabilities. I wouldn't be surprised if that same switch is still working today; the main reason to replace it would be that it only has Fast Ethernet (100baseTX), instead of the current mainstream default of Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseT).