Catalyst 6500-E Series —
Covered past the OEM cutoff by an independent maintainer.
Modules and units still circulate on the secondary market.
Carrying production traffic? Set the replacement window now, not mid-outage.
Low-criticality role — document the risk, harden backups, retire on your terms.
No. Cisco's last date of support for VS-C6506E-SUP2T was Oct 2025, per the Cisco end-of-life bulletin — it is past end of service life.
VS-C6506E-SUP2T reached end of sale Oct 2020, per the Cisco end-of-life bulletin.
Oct 2025, according to the Cisco end-of-life bulletin.
After the last date of support, VS-C6506E-SUP2T units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. Cisco no longer issues software fixes, TAC support, or hardware replacement for it.