That's pretty cool. Is it a managed switch? I feel unmanaged switches have an advantage for being relatively simple with no user facing config or startup/backup

That's pretty cool. Is it a managed switch? I feel unmanaged switches have an advantage for being relatively simple with no user facing config or startup/backup images. They're basically just an ASIC with supporting hardware to look up numbers in a table and transmit out the resulting port - it could last decades.