HPE HP E5500 — End-of-Life & EOSL Dates
The E5500 3Com Legacy stackable switches indicated below have served 3Com and HP Customers with Fast Ethernet for many years. Due to market factors, we are announcing the end of sale of the devices effective June 15, 2011, or while supplies last
Is the HPE HP E5500 end of life?
Past end of serviceEvery tracked HPE HP E5500 SKU group is past HPE end of service life (last group Jun 2016). Units in production should be treated as unsupported. For past-EOSL units, weigh third-party maintenance, spares, replacement, or a documented run-to-failure. HPE’s named migration path: JD331A.
Why this score
- Past end of service life — 122 months ago
- EOSL computed from the vendor support-life policy, not a per-model published date
- Vendor-named replacement / migration path available
- Category: switches
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 →
HP E5500
EOSL — PAST5 SKUs in this group
Options from here
Unsupported nowThe HPE HP E5500 is past HPE 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.
End-of-sale dates are taken from the HPE end-of-sale bulletin linked in each group. End-of-service-life is computed as end-of-sale + 5 years per HPE's published support-life policy — HPE does not publish a per-model EOSL date.
HP E5500 — questions
Is the HPE HP E5500 end of life?
Yes — every tracked E5500 SKU group is past its last date of support.
What is the last date of support for the E5500?
Jun 2016 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
Where do these E5500 dates come from?
End-of-sale dates link to the official HPE end-of-sale bulletin. End-of-service-life is computed as end-of-sale plus HPE's published 5-year support-life policy, which is also linked.
What is the replacement for the E5500?
HPE's end-of-life bulletin lists JD331A as the recommended migration path for the E5500. Exact per-part-number replacements are in the linked bulletin.
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