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
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.
Yes — every tracked E5500 SKU group is past its last date of support.
Jun 2016 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
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.