HPE 5700 Switch Products — HPE 5700 40XG 2QSFP+ Switch
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. HPE's last date of support for JG896A was Jan 2025 (derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date) — it is past end of service life.
JG896A reached end of sale Jan 2020, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Jan 2025 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, JG896A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.