EX Series EX4500 — EX4500 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. Juniper's last date of support for EX4500-40F-FB was Jan 2016 (per the Juniper end-of-sale bulletin) — it is past end of service life.
EX4500-40F-FB reached end of sale Jan 2011, per the Juniper end-of-sale bulletin.
Jan 2016 — per the Juniper end-of-sale bulletin.
After the last date of support, EX4500-40F-FB units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. Juniper no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.