Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series — End-of-Life & EOSL Dates
Modular Catalyst 4500-E chassis family. Cisco ended sales in 2020; hardware support runs to Oct 2025.
Is the Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series end of life?
Past end of serviceEvery tracked Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series SKU group is past Cisco end of service life (last group Oct 2025). Units in production should be treated as unsupported. For past-EOSL units, weigh third-party maintenance, spares, replacement, or a documented run-to-failure. Cisco’s named migration path: C9404R-48U-BNDL-E.
Why this score
- Past end of service life — 10 months ago
- Vendor-published date, source-linked
- Vendor-named replacement / migration path available
- Category: modular distribution switch
The score reflects support-lifecycle timing and source confidence only — higher means more support runway. It is not a risk, safety or compliance rating. How it’s calculated →
Switch hardware
EOSL — PAST27 SKUs in this group
Retired OS trains for this hardware
The software running on a device ages on its own clock. These Cisco OS trains tied to this product by Cisco's own bulletins have announced end-of-life dates — a unit capped on one of them can be unpatched even while the hardware is still supported.
Security fixes ended May 1, 2019 · support ended Apr 30, 2022 — details + source →
Options from here
Unsupported nowThe Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series is past Cisco end of service life. These are the paths teams take from here:
Keep it in production past the OEM cutoff with an independent maintainer.
Buy spares now, while units still circulate on the secondary market.
It is unsupported today — set a migration timeline and budget.
Low-criticality role — document the risk, harden backups, retire on your terms.
Independent and informational — EOSL.ai sells no hardware or maintenance and lists no paid placements. Third-party maintenance keeps unsupported gear in production past the OEM cutoff; whether it fits depends on the asset's role.
Catalyst 4500-E Series — questions
Is the Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series end of life?
Yes — every tracked 4500-E Series SKU group is past its last date of support.
What is the last date of support for the 4500-E Series?
Oct 2025 — per the Cisco EOL bulletin.
Where do these 4500-E Series dates come from?
Every end-of-sale and end-of-service-life date on this page links to the official Cisco EOL bulletin it was taken from.
What is the replacement for the 4500-E Series?
Cisco's end-of-life bulletin lists C9404R-48U-BNDL-E as the recommended migration path for the 4500-E Series. Exact per-part-number replacements are in the linked bulletin.
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