HPE 6600, HSR and MSR Routers — HPE 6600 8p T1 MIM Router Module
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 JC160A was Dec 2023 (derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date) — it is past end of service life.
JC160A reached end of sale Dec 2018, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Dec 2023 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, JC160A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.