Brocade hardware families that are past Brocade's last date of support. After end of service life, Brocade no longer issues software fixes, security patches or hardware replacement. Each date links to the Brocade end-of-life bulletin.
After a vendor’s last date of support (end of service life / EOSL), the manufacturer no longer issues software fixes, security patches, technical support, or hardware replacement for the product. Each date below links to the vendor’s own end-of-life bulletin.
It can keep running, but it no longer receives vendor security patches or warranty/RMA coverage. Many organizations keep it in production under third-party maintenance while planning a refresh.
Every family listed has at least one SKU group past its vendor-published last date of support. The source bulletin is linked on each family page; where a vendor publishes no EOSL date, EOSL.ai computes it from their published support-life policy and labels it "computed".